Things I’ve built.
Thingy, the Workshop Builder, carrying a screwdriver

Things

All 64, the ones he runs today and the ones he has stepped away from. Status is always Jamie’s call. Just the ones live today, a link each: All Things.

Publishing 12

  • Another Thing Jamie’s podcast. It started in October 2025 with an episode on how to start a podcast, and he is not done with it. Active
  • Cards The share image for pages on Jamie’s sites, a 1200 by 630 card drawn from the page itself and made on demand at cards.thingelstad.com. Active
  • Jamie Thingelstad blog Jamie’s personal blog since June 2004, more than 10,000 posts of writing, links, and photos, now published on Micro.blog. He calls it the root of everything else. Active
  • Linking Things Every link Jamie has saved since 2005, one page per link, searchable and joined to the Weekly Thing issues that carried them. Active
  • Reading Things A quarterly newsletter about books from Tammy, Mazie, Tyler, and Jamie. The family committed to one year, sent four issues in 2021 and 2022, and has paused it. The archive is on Buttondown. Dormant
  • Things I’ve built The index of the projects Jamie has built, including the ones he has stepped away from. Kept by Thingy. Active
  • Thingy Jamie’s agent sidekick. On Ask Thingy he is the librarian, answering questions about everything Jamie has published with citations back to the original posts and issues, and he also keeps this site. Active
  • Weekly Thing Jamie’s weekend newsletter of links with commentary, sent since May 2017 and published as a website, email, and podcast. Active
  • Weekly Thing GPT A custom ChatGPT loaded with the first 310 issues of the Weekly Thing. Jamie’s first way to ask the archive a question. Retired
  • Weekly Thing Studio Four AI agents on Discord, Eddy, Linky, Marky and Patty, who helped Jamie edit, research, promote and fund the Weekly Thing in 2026. He introduced them as the Weekly Thing Team and his Workshop. It was the Weekly Thing Studio at the end. Abandoned
  • WT Builder The app Jamie writes and sends the Weekly Thing in, as a website, an email, and a podcast, and makes Another Thing with. Active
  • Yearly Thing 2025 A book of every link Jamie commented on in the 2025 Weekly Thing, subtitled Agents, Attention, Artifacts, in print and as an eBook. Archived

Games 15

  • Airport POAP Rally A Micro.blog site that posted, in near real time, every claim at the 100 airports of POAP’s Airport POAP Rally 2026. Retired
  • Clash Royale API Agent Reference Agent-first documentation of how the Clash Royale API actually behaves, with observed response shapes, quirks, and every game mode. Active
  • Elixir A service that records Clash Royale history and serves it to players, clans, and their AI agents over MCP. Active
  • Elixir Bot POAP KINGS’ first clan agent, a Discord bot that watched the clan and talked with its members from February to September 2026, and the start of Elixir. Retired
  • Elixir Clan Clan management on Elixir. A clan writes its own policy, and Elixir reads the record against it to guide the leaders’ calls. It became part of Elixir on October 2, 2026. Archived
  • Elixir Collector A small, signed Go program that volunteers run on their own machines to fetch Clash Royale API data for Elixir’s shared record. Active
  • Elixir Discord An open-source Discord bot any Clash Royale clan can run. Every fact it states comes from an Elixir MCP tool call. Active
  • Elixir Drop A free browser game from POAP KINGS for learning Clash Royale cards and their elixir costs, in six fast game modes. Active
  • Flight Path A rotating globe of the 2026 Airport POAP Rally with claims, a leaderboard, and each collector’s path, built from an iPhone. Retired
  • Planet Kubb A family of Kubb community sites Garrick van Buren and Jamie built in 2012, with a feed aggregator, a wiki, a Q&A site and club sites. Dormant
  • Planet Kubb Score Jamie’s notation and scoring system for recording Kubb games, begun on Planet Kubb in 2012. He is rebuilding it, and it is not published yet. Active
  • POAP KINGS The website of POAP KINGS, the Clash Royale clan of Jamie’s family, with its roster, data, and season recognition. Active
  • Road Sign Math Road Sign Math rebuilt as an iPhone app that is the whole game: capture a sign, read its numbers, solve it, post it. roadsignmath.xyz shows every sign on a map, no app needed. Active
  • Road Sign Math (2005) The first Road Sign Math, at roadsignmath.com from 2005 to 2016, where 40 players posted 251 road signs whose numbers make an equation, first on a blog and from 2011 on a wiki. Retired
  • Road Sign Math (2021) Road Sign Math as a simple blog of the signs Jamie’s family found from 2021 to 2025, first at roadsignmath.thingelstad.com and from 2023 on Micro.blog at roadsignmath.xyz. Retired

Communities 3

  • Escaping Things The escape room log of Jamie’s family team, with every room played since 2016, on a map with trips, players, and stats. Active
  • Oliver The R/W Book Club’s AI agent and sixth member. Oliver keeps the club’s record, briefs its meetings and publishes the website. Active
  • R/W Book Club A Minneapolis-Saint Paul book club meeting since 2003, and the website that keeps the record of everything it has read. Active

Developer tools and systems 5

  • mb A command-line tool and MCP server for Micro.blog, built for Jamie’s agent Otto and installed through Homebrew. Active
  • Otto Jamie’s personal AI agent, named in February 2026. Otto runs on its own Mac and writes its own blog. Active
  • Redirector The one place that answers for Jamie’s old and misspelled domains. It sends each to where its pages live now, rescues old blog links post by post, and serves a teapot to scanners hunting for WordPress. Active
  • Sync A page that shows what each of Jamie’s systems holds right now, how far behind each hop between them runs, and a receipt for the newest item of each kind. Active
  • Thingy Model A poseable Blender character built from Thingy’s original illustration, with a shared skeleton, seven Scenes and their accessories, a screen face with moods, and a kit that puts him on any site. Active

Personal tools and making 6

  • Changelog An iPhone app for getting notes into Release Notes in two taps, with photos, voice memos, places, Upcoming dates, Siri, and widgets. Jamie’s first iPhone app. Active
  • Jiggy Thing Puzzles A 500-piece jigsaw puzzle Jamie’s family drew and boxed themselves, sold to raise money at Things 4 Good. Archived
  • Project Templates The OmniFocus project templates Jamie has kept since 2017, and the private site he built in 2026 to fill them in and send them to OmniFocus. Active
  • Release Notes A daily email with today’s version number. Reply with notes from your day and they become that version’s release notes. Active
  • Things 4 Good The Thingelstad family’s yearly sale of hand-poured wooden-wick candles, with every dollar going to four nonprofits they pick. Active
  • Your Version Number A website that writes your age as a software version, decades.years.days, with a Work Edition for job tenure. Active

Art & archives 3

  • Proof of a Person Jamie’s POAP time capsule, 2021 to 2026, built from the archive he captured after the protocol wound down. Active
  • Stone/Steel/People A square photo book of a little over 30 of Jamie’s pictures, one to a page, made with Blurb after a 2010 photography workshop. Archived
  • The nnxyz Rooms An online gallery of Jamie’s nnxyz and Scrimshaw collection, hung in 30 rooms, where each Nifty Ink drawing replays stroke by stroke. Active

Historical projects 20

  • 612 POAP Challenge A summer 2025 scavenger hunt of 31 Minneapolis location POAPs that Jamie drew in the spirit of the 612 Series. Archived
  • Ask Planet Kubb A Question2Answer site where Kubb players asked and answered questions about the game, one of the Planet Kubb sites Jamie built with Garrick van Buren. Retired
  • Charlie Brown Tree A tree stump at Magic Pines on Cannon Lake, carved into Peanuts characters under Snoopy’s doghouse by Adam Gale of Rust n’ Grain. Archived
  • Filament A MediaWiki skin on Yahoo’s Pure CSS framework, written mostly by Garrick van Buren with Jamie in 2013. Retired
  • Foreground A responsive MediaWiki skin Garrick van Buren built with Jamie’s input in 2013, now maintained in Wikimedia’s code review. Retired
  • Link Blog Link Thing, the website that published the links Jamie saved to Pinboard for the Weekly Thing, from 2017 to about 2021. Retired
  • links_thing Jamie’s 2012 bookmarking wiki, built on Semantic MediaWiki with forms, a bookmarklet, and calendar, video and statistics views. Retired
  • Numbers2Words A MediaWiki parser function from 2011 that spells out a number in words. Retired
  • Open Loop A nine-episode podcast Jamie made with Garrick van Buren in 2012 and 2013, archived with transcripts and a feed. Archived
  • ParseURL A tiny MediaWiki extension that exposes PHP’s parse_url, so a wiki page can pull the host, path, or query out of a URL. Retired
  • POAP2RSS RSS feeds of claims for any POAP drop or collector. Retired when the POAP API went offline in July 2026. Retired
  • q2a-number-captcha A Question2Answer CAPTCHA plugin that spells out a nine-digit number in words and asks for one digit of it. Retired
  • Terabyte Server The home server Jamie built in 2004 with 1.4 terabytes of RAID storage. It held the family’s music, ripped from nearly 1,000 CDs plus the vinyl, and for a while it also served thingelstad.com. Retired
  • Tetris Shower The downstairs shower, retiled in 2009 as a game of Tetris in progress: every piece whole, no row complete, and one piece still falling. Archived
  • Thingelstad Photography Jamie’s photography portfolio at photography.thingelstad.com, relaunched on WordPress in 2012 to post an image a week from his Lightroom archive. Retired
  • Thinglesbot An automation Jamie called his robot, which posted home temperatures, solar panel status, and inbox counts from scripts around his house. Retired
  • TOSRedux A Semantic MediaWiki site at tosredux.org where people could crowdsource a structured analysis of websites’ terms of service. It never took off. Abandoned
  • VeloTweets A 2009 site that gathered professional cyclists’ tweets into one grid, built by Luke Francl, Norm Orstad, Chris Hatch, and Jamie. Retired
  • WikiApiary A Semantic MediaWiki site that tracks thousands of MediaWiki wikis, their software, extensions, and editing activity. Retired
  • Wikinosh A Semantic MediaWiki site of nutrition facts for more than 20,000 foods, with a Twitter bot and an offline app. Retired

Topics

The threads that run through more than one thing. Each thing names its own topics, so these lists write themselves.

Agents 13
Software that observes, remembers, and acts. It started as tools for Jamie and grew into companions for whole communities.
MediaWiki 11
Jamie spent years building on MediaWiki: communities, extensions, skins, and knowledge with structure.
Semantic MediaWiki 5
A wiki can be a database too. Semantic MediaWiki let Jamie ask a wiki questions, and that changed how he built on wikis.
POAP 7
Proof of participation. Collected memories, and the tools Jamie built to connect those tokens to the open web.
Crypto 6
Jamie’s experiments with onchain participation and digital collectibles, almost all of them through POAP.
MCP 7
Agents need a good way into what Jamie has recorded and the tools he uses every day. MCP is how he gives it to them.
The open web 17
Publishing, feeds, archives, and tools that keep what Jamie makes portable and his.
Play 22
Games, playful arithmetic, and the communities that form around them. Kubb, Clash Royale, and math on road signs.
Archives 14
Keeping content, collections, and the evidence behind them, so they are still there years from now.
Reading 4
Books, reading, and the ways Jamie’s family and his book club share them.
Making 8
Things made by hand, usually as a family. Candles, puzzles, and a carved tree.
Automation 6
Shortcuts, bots, and scripts that take the repetitive parts off Jamie’s plate.