Gareth Paul Jones

The Useful Almanac

A two-ink linocut interpretation of Gareth smiling and holding up two phones in his 2015 photograph.
GPT-Image-2 linocut, after my 2015 photograph. See the original

Hello, I’m Gareth.

I like the part where research meets a real product. I still code because it’s often the shortest route from a fuzzy idea to an honest conversation.

A little more about me

Product Lead, AI at Poe / Quora. Research, product, and code.

From my archive · June 2015

Thirty apps.
Thirty days.

I hadn’t built and shipped an app on my own. So I set myself a challenge: a mobile app every day for thirty days. I had to wake up at 5am.

Read how it went

Things I’ve made

FlowTimer

A menu-bar timer with regular check-ins. Continue, extend, or stop.

Jones Audio

Record with a hotkey. Put the transcription straight at your cursor.

All projects

Thinking out loud

Evals for AI Agents

A practical look at testing agents against the work we actually expect them to do.

Browse my writing

A small patch of
the internet.

This website began on Geocities in 2002. I’ve built every version myself. Most of my spare time is with my wife and daughter; the rest tends to disappear into building, livestreaming, or golf.

Say hello on LinkedIn
About this page & illustration

The introduction and personal note are adapted from my about page. The early start and app challenge come from my 2015 retrospective. Project descriptions come from their project pages; the evaluation talk is listed in my selected work.

About meThe 2015 retrospectiveFlowTimerJones AudioSelected work

The new linocut illustration was made with GPT-Image-2 from my original 2015 photograph. It is an artistic interpretation, not a documentary image or a new event.

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