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Product Designerd at PlanetScale, previously GitHub. Loves Vim and mechanical keyboards.
Websitehttps://jasonlong.me
GitHubhttps://github.com/jasonlong
LocationColumbus, Ohio

I have a bunch of notebooks with design sketches from over the years. They aren’t much to look at (my process is to sketch fast and loose ideas before creating higher-fidelity mocks), but they’re still fun to revisit.

Here’s one of the PR merge box on GitHub.

I love a good internet spelunking story. This one is about tracking down the original Netscape animation rendered during page load.

https://erynwells.me/blog/2023/08/netscape-meteors/

Netscape Meteors - Eryn Rachel Wells

I went on a small journey the last couple days to find the original Netscape Navigator “meteors” animation. This one has a special place in my head and heart because it is so clearly connected to my memories of discovering the web as a kid. Here it is in its original 60×60 px glory: I started out doing some web searches that turned up several versions. One was promising but far too big: 400×400 px.

John Romero's new book is out today.I'm a sucker for stories about id's glory days.

https://www.amazon.com/Doom-Guy-Life-First-Person-ebook/dp/B09S3R44WM?qid=&sr=

Amazon.com

I thought I’d try a Blue Sky retail location but it was just as dead as its online presence
K10k

Explore the milestones in the history of web design: Kaliber10000 (K10k) in 1998.

Web Design Museum

MING 29.01 Worldtimer

https://ming.watch

Horologer MING - Watches by MING

Mechanical watches for the discerning. Designed in Kuala Lumpur, Made in Switzerland.

Tech Explained: Data Acquisition

In the next chapter of the vehicle dynamics tech explained series, Racecar Engineering highlights a few techniques used to process and visualise the data and touch on how they are analysed to provide meaningful assessments into the vehicle dynamics and driver's input in the lap.

Racecar Engineering
Spending some time in Switzerland this week🇨🇭

Our new database overview page was the most fun I’ve had working on a UI in a while. It features a infrastructure diagram that scales in complexity with your setup.

https://planetscale.com/blog/our-new-database-overview-page

Pulling back the curtain: the new database overview page

Learn about the latest updates we made to our database overview page: load balancers, shards, and more.

New Leica homage icon for Darkroom is 🤌