Alex Jones
@alexjones
I lead multi-disciplinary, globally distributed Design and Product teams crafting remarkable products for millions of people. Austinite. Barbecue acolyte. Autodidact. Previously @baldman on the bird site.
"The confession is doing structural work. If you admit the danger, you establish yourself as the one honest actor. And if you are the one honest actor, your…"–Om Malik duckduckgo.com?q=Om+Malik+T...
FluidVoice: altic.dev/fluid "Free open source voice-to-text for macOS. Local-first dictation with Parakeet, Apple Speech, Whisper, AI enhancement, command mode, write mode, and Intel support through Whisper."
Nativ — Run AI models locally on your Mac: blaizzy.github.io/nativ/ "Frontier intelligence on your desk. No accounts, subscriptions, or cloud."
exercises-dataset: github.com/hasaneyldrm/... "1,324-exercise fitness dataset — animation GIFs, 180×180 thumbnails, muscle-group & equipment data, and step-by-step instructions in 6 languages."
Harper: Free, Open Source Grammar Checker: writewithharper.com "Harper checks your writing fast, without compromising your privacy."
Storied Colors: storiedcolors.com "named colors with documented histories."
Enhancing with CSS Grid Lanes: adactio.com/journal/22613 "Going from a carousel on small screens to a masonry layout on larger screens."
Chili Peppers of the World: Cultivars, Species, and Heat: www.notesfromtheroad.com/desertmexico... "An illustrated guide to chili peppers of the world, organized by Capsicum species and cultivar, with notes on origin, heat, form, domestication, and global food history."
Yup, this is exactly what I was hoping to see when loading a page from a search... Y'all, we really didn't have to break the web this way.
Roost: roostsocial.app "A messaging app where your message is delivered at the speed it would take your chosen bird to travel in real-time. This reminds me of the fun, early era of social media."
Shortcuts Playground: github.com/viticci/shor... "Shortcuts Playground: A Claude Code and Codex plugin for building, validating, signing, and remixing macOS/iOS Shortcuts with natural language."
Rulebook: lucas.io/rulebook/?re... "A Mac app that automatically sorts, renames, converts, moves, copies, archives and tags files in the background."
The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/big-sur... "Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web."
taken.: sinceyouarrived.world/taken "A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you." This is really well done. I love how they explain each data point and the way they wrote in general.
Making an original Jubilee line door button into a Hue light switch: localghost.dev/blog/making-...
"In 1969, after a proposal to abolish the Electoral College by constitutional amendment passed in the House, it was only very narrowly defeated in the Senate, mostly due to the surprising opposition of…"–Jill Lepore www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW13K7W1/
"Nothing is improper, even though you know something isn’t right. Still, the accountants have done their job."–Om Malik om.co/2026/05/01/w...
"Laws govern people; constitutions govern governments."–Jill Lepore www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW13K7W1/
Artemis II Photo Timeline: artemistimeline.com#jeremy-hanse... "An interactive photo timeline of NASA's Artemis II mission — scrub through every crew moment, lunar flyby shot, and audio clip from April 1–10, 2026."
DeckPilot — Adaptive Control Surface for Mac: deckpilot.co "Your iPhone becomes an intelligent control surface for your Mac."
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ReciproCard - Reciprocal Library Cards for Libby: reciprocard.com "Discover which reciprocal library systems you can access based on where you live. More cards means more books on Libby."
cmux — The terminal built for multitasking: cmux.com "Native macOS terminal for AI coding agents. Works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Aider, and any CLI tool."
MapToPoster: github.com/originalanku... "Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code."
Agentic AI, design systems & Figma: a practical guide: uxdesign.cc/agentic-ai-d... "The Figma basics you were told to get right just became the foundation for something much bigger."
MacNotch: macnotch.io?ref=DenseDis... "A powerful modular dashboard at the top of your Mac. Works with or without a physical notch and on multiple displays. Dashboard, media (Spotify, Apple Music, Plex, VOX, VLC, browsers), calendar, code hosting (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), AI…"
📝 Raycast Time Zone Converter: Now with Time Ranges: www.silverspider.com/2026/raycast... I've added support for converting time ranges in my Raycast extension.
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code: piechowski.io/post/git-com... "Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns."