Gareth Paul Jones.

An imaginary acoustic instrument: oxblood paper fins form a sound wave along a brass spindle, unfurling into an ivory ribbon. — A voice, given form.Imagined object
GPT-Image-2
An illustrated frontispiece, not a product. A material metaphor for my experiments with speech: an idea you can almost hold.
The actual experimentWriting custom text-to-speech

Product Lead, AI at Poe / Quora

I like the part where research meets a real product.

Deciding what good behavior looks like. Finding a way to test it. Staying close enough to build the first version.

Gareth at his desk, talking to the camera — I still code. It’s often the shortest
route to an honest conversation.
A little more about me

Selected work & thinking

Three things, in detail

FlowTimer

A focus timer that asks you to check in.

A Mac menu-bar timer with checkpoint overlays, even over fullscreen apps. See the next check-in, then choose: continue, extend, or stop.

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The checkpoint sequence

Choose a preset. Deep Work, Quick Task, Meeting, or Break.
Focus. See the time to your next check-in, not a total countdown.
Decide. At the checkpoint, continue, extend, or stop.

From the livestream · 2026

Coding agents need
their own swimlanes.

Gareth in swimming goggles in front of separate coding-agent terminal windows; actual video thumbnail

Research, agents, review. Three separate contexts make the work easier to follow—and easier to check.

Watch the walkthrough 40 min · YouTube

From the archive · 2015

30 apps in 30 days.

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A notebook of ideas. A plan each Sunday. An app submission every day. What happened when I set myself a very literal challenge.

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A small patch of the internet,
kept personal since 2002.

This started on Geocities. I’ve designed and built every version since. Away from the screen: my wife and daughter, golf, and usually something I’m taking apart.
More about this long-running habit