Jason Long

I am a product designerd currently working at PlanetScale. Before that, I worked at GitHub for 9 years. [View my read.cv profile]

Projects

I’ve created a few logos for open source projects like Git, NeoVim, and tmux.

These are a few of the open source projects I’ve worked on: [View my GitHub profile]

• isometric-contributions: 3D GitHub contribution graph (⭑3,328)
• geo_pattern: Procedurally-generated background patterns (⭑1,239)
• mater: Pomodoro client (⭑518)
• cayman-theme: Default GitHub Pages theme (⭑1,487)
• beam: A simple message board for your organization or project (⭑1,805)

About

I live in Columbus, Ohio and I’m married with three children. One is out of college, one’s in college, and the other is 7 years old. I have a degree in Computer Science from Ohio State and I started my career as a Windows developer. I worked with PHP, ASP, and Java before getting into Rails while freelancing in the early 00’s. During this time, my interests shifted towards design.

Tools

• My hardware setup consists of an M1 MacBook Pro, XDR display, and a Tofu65 keyboard by KBDfans. [View photos of my workspace]
• My dev environment is Neovim + tmux with a modified Nord theme. [View dotfiles]

Current enjoying

• Astro. Creating this simple site was my first experience with it and I’m impressed with the concept, docs, and DX.
• StepsApp. I try to walk 8-10k steps a day and use this for tracking.
• Copilot for tracking finances. Not to be confused with GitHub’s Copilot (which is also great).
• Ivory Mastodon client for iOS and Mac. Twitter killing 3rd party clients was the final straw for me and Ivory feels like home for this long-time Tweetbot user.
• Clarkson’s Farm. Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear attempting to run a farm. Hilarious and surprisingly heartwarming.
• What’s Our Problem. Fascinating book by Tim Urban with his take on what’s is wrong with modern society. His drawings are amazing.

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