Jason Long
@jasonlong.me
product design @ planetscale · ex-github · vim enjoyer jasonlong.me
I like this business model where Brave charges $60 for an "upgraded" browser where it simply strips out all of the features nobody wants. I kinda want it. brave.com/blog/brave-o...
New Brave Origin premium experience offers users a minimalist version of the Brave browser | Brave
Meet Brave Origin, the minimalist browser Brave users asked for: industry-leading privacy and ad+tracker blocking, none of the extras, and a one-time purchase that works across all your devices (free ...
brave.com
100 years before every kid in suburbia had a motorized scooter, there was the Autoped en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoped
The Zippo lighter breakdown is especially interesting mechanical-pencil.com
Mechanical Pencil
Illustrating the Engineering Around Us
mechanical-pencil.com
Everyone knows 1984 Apple Super Bowl commercial, but do you know the 1985 commercial? youtu.be/HGLdshNAR00?...
Apple Super Bowl Commercial Lemmings 1985
YouTube video by Grant Owens
youtu.be
One of the best channels on @are.na has a dedicated site now. tinyui.org
Tiny UI
An archive tracking and researching today's most used interfaces.
tinyui.org
Added bulk actions and feedback toasts to Octodot. github.com/jasonlong/oc...
Little known GitHub markdown trick - you can use a <kbd> tag to indicate keyboard shortcuts and buttons.
I've updated my old Pomodoro menubar app * Rewritten in Swift (so macOS-only now) * Configurable work/break times * Draggable timer * Spacebar pause/resume * New sound effects by snd.dev * Homebrew-installable github.com/jasonlong/ma...
GitHub - jasonlong/mater: 🍅 A simple, native macOS menubar Pomodoro app
🍅 A simple, native macOS menubar Pomodoro app. Contribute to jasonlong/mater development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Converting a small Electron app to Swift. New version even includes a test suite which didn't exist before.
I never found a menubar app I liked for GitHub notifications, so I've been working on one. It's very keyboard-centric with several Vim keybindings. If you want to test it out: github.com/jasonlong/oc...
“What caught my eye as a designer, as with most industrial plants and control rooms of that time, besides the knobs, levers, and buttons, was the use of a very specific seafoam green…” It’s time for some color theory… [bethmathews.substack.com]
Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
The Color Theory Behind Industrial Seafoam Green
bethmathews.substack.com
I love how prolific people seem to have the most minimal productivity systems. Like Andrej Karpathy's single Apple Note: karpathy.bearblog.dev/the-append-a...
The append-and-review note
A simple but powerful approach to note taking
karpathy.bearblog.dev
Anyone have a good strategy for streamlining updates to Figma components that have drifted from their code counterparts? Figma MCP server is read-only and Figma Make doesn't seem suitable.
Don't overlook the humble <select> element when you need a fancy dropdown. Here we style two selects for a seamless SQL tag picker in the @planetscale.com Traffic Control rule editor.
Introducing Database Traffic Control: a Postgres traffic management system built into PlanetScale. Enforce flexible budgets on your database traffic to protect against unexpected and dangerous workloads. planetscale.com/blog/introdu...
Introducing Database Traffic Control — PlanetScale
Enforce real-time limits on your Postgres query traffic to protect your database from runaway queries and unexpected load spikes.
planetscale.com
"Earlier on in your career, you are proud you’ve thought about this extra detail, you’ve figured out how to make this animation work and how to fine-tune the curves, and you’ve learned how to implement it… Later in your experience, you are proud you resisted it." unsung.aresluna.org/user-interfa...
User interface sugar crash – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
unsung.aresluna.org
I was curious what squares historically do best in the NCAA tournament so I had Claude make a heatmap for the past 10 years. Full version: jasonlong.github.io/squares-heat...
I've done some one-off hit area tweaks over time, but this Tailwind utility approach is nice. I updated our app so most targets are WCAG-compliant. bazza.dev/craft/2026/h...
Hit area
A collection of TailwindCSS utility classes for expanding the hit area of interactive elements.
bazza.dev
I finally got around to making one of those standalone TouchID boxes. Got the button kit on eBay, model from Printables, printed at Craftcloud. Mounted under my desk and works perfectly.
Thanks to @beyondtellerrand.com, I've just discovered @andremichelle.bsky.social's OpenDAW project.. Only played around for 10 minutes, but OMG!! It's so good! How is this possible in a browser?! 👏 Check it: opendaw.org
Real thing that happened today: Me: Play I'm on Fire Siri: Which app would you like to use? Me: Apple Music Siri: What do you want to play? Me: I'm on Fire Siri: Do you want me to call emergency services?
When struggling with a design, I've always known when I've had a breakthrough because the solution is obvious in retrospect. I think this is why a lot of good design goes unnoticed - because you think that's obviously how it should look and work. But getting there is always challenging.
www.fastcompany.com/91501353/ai-...
'We just have to experiment faster': AI's changed design forever. Now what?
Designers are now coders—or better be. Your interface is a moat—or irrelevant. Inside the dizzying chaos of how AI is upending the design profession, starring its high priests at Anthropic, OpenAI, Cu...
fastcompany.com
Over the last few months, I've rebuilt my RSS / content reader project call Feedster. It's unique in that it gives users a front page view of their feed content, organizes feeds into channels, allows users to share these channels, and supports MCP for AI agents to access feeds.
