Hi, I'm Jay
Welcome to my website where I do my work and publish it too! On here I document my development work, share my thoughts, and maybe even post some personal stuff.
Projects
A few things I've built — click into any of them.
LocusA Chrome extension for launching bookmarks fast.
jaygriff.comMy personal platform for building and publishing software.
Engineering Ethics Case StudiesAn educational collection of real-world engineering ethics case studies. Supported by the Texas A&M Bovay Fund. Site content by Renée Holman; web development by me.
Deep DivePoint an LLM at any public GitHub repo and get a vulnerability report. Analyze and harden every single file in your software.Recent writing
What I've been working through lately.
The Simple Financial Statistic That Runs My LifeThe S&P 500 has never delivered negative returns over any 20-year rolling period, and that single fact shapes my entire investment philosophy.March 30, 2026How I Learned to CodeI'm self-taught, and the path was anything but straight.March 1, 2026What I Think About AIWhy I'm obsessed with AIFebruary 28, 2026
Recent work
Designs and working notes, newest first.
DesignSeptember 14, 2026Post Header Design with Authorship MetaA unified post header component design with authorship attribution folded into the metadata line.DesignSeptember 13, 2026Design Gallery MockupA self-referential mockup of the design gallery, rendered through the exact feature it's mocking up.ThoughtAugust 31, 2026Modeling Projects in the DatabaseWhy I moved project metadata from hardcoded arrays into a database table, even when the code itself lives in the filesystem.ThoughtAugust 31, 2026Architectural Blueprint: Single-File "Code-as-Data" CMSA web-first content layer that treats fully interactive React components as flat text strings in a database, bypassing heavy bundlers while enabling rapid AI-assisted development.ThoughtAugust 29, 2026Building and Debugging a Post Creator SkillI added a skill to this repo today whose entire job is creating one file—it took three failed attempts to get it working, and the failures were more interesting than the skill.