Jonas Downey

@jonasdowney
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Design Director @ Superhuman // Co-creator of Hello Weather. Ex-Figma, Twitter, and some other stuff. Puns always intended. he/him
Webhttps://jonas.do
Hello Weatherhttps://helloweather.com
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To celebrate WWDC, we’re offering 50% off one year for our iOS app!

More details at @macstories here:

https://www.macstories.net/sponsored/hello-weather-half-off-for-wwdc-week-just-in-time-for-summer-sponsor/

Hello Weather: Half Off for WWDC Week, Just in Time for Summer [Sponsor]

Summer and WWDC arrive together this year, and Hello Weather is ready for both. It's one of the most beloved indie weather apps around, and right now it's half off, which makes it a great time to give it a try as your daily driver. Hello Weather has always been known for its simple, friendly,

Interesting that all of these macOS 27 icon revisions just take the blurry Tahoe versions and make them sharp and crisp again.

It's like hitting Undo after applying Gaussian Blur:

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-golden-gate-icon-comparison

macOS Golden Gate Icon Comparison — Basic Apple Guy

Comparing the new system applications of macOS Golden Gate (Beta 1) icons to those of macOS Tahoe

Basic Apple Guy

New post: a reckoning on the contradictions of working in tech, when AI is taking over everything.

https://jonas.do/writing/2026-06-06-your-tech-job/

It's hard to be good at your tech job right now | Jonas Downey

It's hard to be good at your tech job right now

Jonas Downey

Trying to work with Al chatbots is basically the same as being a horrible reply guy:

"Actually, you're wrong"
"That's a bad take"
"Is this even true? What are your sources?"
"This writing makes no sense"
"Think harder"

I’m writing a post on what’s hard about working in tech right now. (The list is long.)

What are you struggling with the most?

One of my favorite Internet pastimes is clicking NO on passive aggressive promotional upsells, to intentionally mess up the metrics for whatever dumb psychological conversion tricks the product team is trying to pull

I wrote a guide to keyboard customization, or at least what worked for me! Maybe you will find it interesting. It has videos and a bunch of fun keyboard shortcuts, some of which I actually might have invented ha.

It also has a diagram of my best understanding of how a keystroke travels through the system, and what do all of these apps like Keyboard Maestro, Karabiner, or VIA actually do.

https://aresluna.org/key-in-sight/

Wrote a little reflection on the current (highly chaotic) state of software design:

https://jonas.do/writing/2026-04-22-designing-the-wrong-way/

Designing the wrong way is finally right | Jonas Downey

Designing the wrong way is finally right

Jonas Downey

words I would be ok with never hearing again

agentic
tokenmaxxing
human in the loop
generative
anything involving a claw
meatspace
you’re absolutely right —

oh hey, I'm in the New Yorker chatting about weather apps

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-you-hate-your-weather-app

(I hope you don't hate @helloweather though)

Why You Hate Your Weather App

Kyle Chayka writes about the frustrating inaccuracy of modern weather-forecasting apps, and about efforts to make them better.

The New Yorker