Jason Long

@jasonlong.me

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product design @ planetscale · ex-github · vim enjoyer jasonlong.me

App icon for Aperture
Markdown content: Use `<kbd>` tags to indicate keyboard shortcuts like Reload the page with <kbd>⌘ R</kbd>. Also handy for buttons like Click the <kbd>Save changes</kbd> button.
Git diff showing +1,921 -20,841
Screenshot of Octodot, a menubar app for showing Github notifications.
10x10 grid of NCAA basketball tournament scores shown as a heatmap of which scores hit most often.
TouchID electronics and unassembled 3d printed box
Early 2000s era Internet Explorer with a huge vertical stack of browser toolbars
A grid of Ghostty terminal app icons in different colorschemes.
“During Golden Ages, there is more work than people. And when they crash, it is because there are more people than work.”
An early GitHub page with hundreds of checkboxes
Sparrow email client
3D printed piece with 9 years of GitHub contributions
Screenshot of a GitHub contribution graph in 3D isometric form.
Billboard in San Francisco. Black background with the word "database." in the middle.
"Tom Sachs Guide" from Phaidon (front cover)
Isometric 3D render of a room with a couch, computer desk, and table with record player.
Screenshot from the Walking Dead. Guy on horse walking on a highway towards a city. All cars are abandoned.
A cup of coffee with a latte art heart
Avocado seed in small jar of water
Cursor CLI command to enable Vim keys
Meneki-neko cat generated by ChatGPT
Animated logo of a hourse built by shifting horizontal segments
Table with multiple columns and each cell has a value and associated sparkline. The sparkline can be hovered over to see how the values change over time.
Cup of cappuccino with latte art and chocolate shavings
Scott Monument
Two radio group UI options. The option for "Amazon Elastic Block Storage" in a normal box and the one for "PlanetScale Metal" in container that looks like an NVMe SSD.
Grid of database metrics like number of tables, branches, and storage size.
Database infrastructure diagram showing 1 primary node and 2 replicas.
Screenshot of tweet saying "YouTube is testing a new "Liquid Glass" design for playback controls👀 Do you think more companies will implement similar blur now since Apple made it popular?"
Top is the closed state of a dropdown menu showing current server specs (vCPU, memory, storage). Bottom shows the open state with a table with rows for each SKU and associated specs.
Website w/ dark background, white text, and blue links.
Switch 2 with Cyberpunk 2077 title screen
A 5x5 grid of quarters on a table
''Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer – that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.'' — Steve Jobs
GitHub graph of contributions to PlanetScale frontend app. 5,292 commits / #1 contributor
Isometric pixel art poster featuring dozens of Web 2.0 era tech companies.
Screenshot of Antinote. It shows some notes on how to perform basic math and it has a timer running along the left edge.
A flat white espresso in front of a computer keyboard
The "up" button on Bluesky