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Jay Simons

@designly·Madison, WI·Joined February 2023

Full-stack web and mobile developer

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Jay is a full-stack developer, electrical engineer, writer and music producer. He currently resides in the Madison, WI area.

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Jay is a full-stack developer, electrical engineer, writer and music producer. He currently resides in the Madison, WI area.

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JSJay Simonsindesignly.hashnode.dev·Aug 23 · 11 min read

Open Knowledge Format vs RAG: Why Your Agent Should Read a Wiki

Most agent stacks reach for a vector database the moment the model needs a fact it was not trained on. That instinct is reasonable when the answer is buried in years of tickets and leftover wiki pages

JSJay Simonsindesignly.hashnode.dev·Aug 18 · 13 min read

How DeepSeek Harness Saves Tokens by Not Editing History

An agent is not a chat with a good memory. It is a loop that resends the entire transcript on every step. The model does one thing. Text in, text out. When the call ends, it remembers nothing. Step 40

JSJay Simonsindesignly.hashnode.dev·Aug 16 · 6 min read

Why await Doesn't Make JavaScript Run in Order

A lot of developers learn async/await and walk away with one idea: I used await, so everything waits. That sentence is almost true — and the "almost" is where the bugs live. await pauses one async f

JSJay Simonsindesignly.hashnode.dev·Aug 16 · 13 min read

How to Automate Scheduled X Posts with Codex and xurl

Most social-media automation tutorials stop at “call the API on a cron job.” That works, but it leaves the hard questions unanswered. Which account is the automation using? How does it avoid posting t

JSJay Simonsindesignly.hashnode.dev·Oct 8, 2025 · 8 min read

Don’t Waste Your Money on GitHub Actions—Do This Instead!

GitHub Actions is convenient, but it’s not cheap. Runner minutes add up quickly, builds are often slow, and you don’t always need the complexity of a full CI/CD platform. If your main goal is fast, repeatable builds and deployments, there’s a better ...