December Awakening

Everything accelerated, again, in Nov-Dec-Jan. Lots of people are noticing.

MAR 8 • JACK IVERS • BRIEF

MCP Apps bring your custom UIs inside Claude. I built 4 and share what I learned: how they relate to MCPs and skills, rules of thumb, and more.

MAR 7 • JACK IVERS • ESSAY

I built an MCP that lets Claude see its own Excalidraw diagrams, iterate on them, and save them to Obsidian.

FEB 20 • JACK IVERS • ESSAY

Peter Steinberger's move to OpenAI marks the end of the saga; or Part 1 anyway.

FEB 17 • JACK IVERS • BRIEF

Thanks to The Workflow and my AI pair, Claude Opus 4.6.

FEB 10 • JACK IVERS • ESSAY

Cherny's thread on how he personally uses Claude Code gave me a roadmap.

JAN 27 • JACK IVERS • ESSAY

Anthropic brings Claude Code's plugin system to Cowork, along with a collection of knowledge work plugins and a slick customization system.

JAN 30 • JACK IVERS • BRIEF