Jason Long

I am a product designer working at PlanetScale. Before that, I worked at GitHub for 9 years. [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: [My GitHub profile]

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

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 8 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 QK65 keyboard by Qwertykeys. [Some outdated photos of my workspace]
• My dev environment is Neovim + tmux with a custom Poimandres theme. [Dotfiles]

Current enjoying

• Zerocam. Amazing iPhone camera app that is dirt simple and produces colors that are :chefs-kiss:.
• Cosmos. Another good site full of inspiring photos and design. It’s not as deep as Are.na, but it has a great UX.
• Kellen Milad workouts. Excellent movement flow routines.
• Ghostty. New terminal emulator by Mitchell Hashimoto. He posts occassional development logs on his site and is active on the project’s Discord server.
• REZZ. Some EDM music is too much for me, but I like her dark, heavy sound. This Brooklyn Mirage set is so good.
• Are.na. An endless rabbit hole of inspiring, strange, and interesting things.
• Kagi. Paying for a search engine sounds ridiculous, but I finally tried it and quickly paid up. Highly recommended.
• P3 colors with OKLCH. We’re able to progressively enhance our CSS colors today and this post is a great starting point.

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