Vernier
A little more precision. A lot less guessing.
Measure what’s on screen with snapping guides, pinned dimensions, and capture handoff.
CO-FOUNDER & CTO, HEADWAY · 20+ YEARS SHIPPING SOFTWARE
Obsessive craft.
Startup speed.
Hi, I’m Jon 👋 At Headway, we design, build, and launch products for teams like Handshake and Trimble, and I lead the technical approach on every one. In my spare time, I build open-source tools for the desktop.
Co-founder & CTO, Headway
Green Bay, Wisconsin
FROM MY WORKBENCH
01 / 05
vernier / made for the details
+Made for the details.
Built to get out of your way.RUST + LINUX
Built to get out of your way.RUST + LINUX
WORK WITH ME / HEADWAY
Obsessive craft.
For your product, too.
Forward deployed, not handed off.
We embed with your team, work in your tools,
and leave the system standing when we go.
- 01
New products, zero to launch.
Strategy, design, and engineering in one team, from the first prototype to launch day.
- 02
AI features and agentic development.
Add AI to your product, and set your team up to build with agents the way we do.
- 03
Technical leadership for existing products.
Architecture, code quality, and the practices that keep a product healthy. Rails since 2005.
“They built a prototype that earned us the cash to build the entire platform. Get ready to have your first positive experience with a tech team that listens, challenges and exceeds expectations.”
Kelly Williams Network Strategy Product Lead, Trimble- Raised by Headway clients
- $715M+
- Clients still in market
- 96%
HOW IT STARTS
A 20–30 minute call about where you are and where you want to go. Then a deep dive, and a proposal your team can get behind.
THE CRAFT / SELECTED OPEN SOURCE
Small tools.
A better everyday.
Mostly Linux. Sometimes everywhere.
Always an itch worth scratching.
The same care goes into every client project.
Tensaku
Mark it up. Move it around. Make it clear.
Screenshot annotation with movable layers and scrolling captures. Built on Matthias Gabriel’s Satty.
HyprCorrect
The right words, without breaking your flow.
Keyboard-driven spelling correction across your desktop, including the terminal.
Mousehop
One keyboard. One mouse. Your whole desk.
Share input and your clipboard across machines. Built on Ferdinand Schober’s lan-mouse.
Omapop
Select some text. Make your next move.
A contextual action bar for your Omarchy desktop. Copy, search, translate, and transform selected text with PopClip-compatible extensions.
MAKING OMARCHY MY OWN. SHARING THE GOOD PARTS.
A few additions to the desktop.
fulcrum BUILDING AT HEADWAYTHE NEXT CHAPTER / BUILDING TOGETHER
Find your team’s
development flow.
All those little improvements add up. Now we’re bringing that same care to the way whole teams build software.
Fulcrum connects estimates, pitches, shared skills, and project context in one workspace for teams building with AI agents.
Make a plan you can stand behind.
Scope the work, build an estimate, and turn it into a clear proposal. Give clients—and the internal teams you need buy-in from—a shared picture of what comes next.
Good context belongs to the whole team.
Share and sync skills files so everyone’s agents work from the same conventions. Keep decisions and project context alongside the work, on a shared board.
Keep the plan connected to the work.
Move from approved scope into a collaborative development flow. Give people and their agents the context to build together, while keeping the team aligned as the work evolves.
MADE FOR
Software agencies
A PLAN THE WHOLE TEAM CAN SEE
From “what will it take?” to “it’s shipped.”
Get early access to Fulcrum A shared way to plan, align, and build.
IN GOOD COMPANY / CONTRIBUTIONS
Other people’s tools.
Made a little better.
Fixes, features, and polish
for the software I use every day.
OMARCHY / CORE CONTRIBUTOR
A desktop worth contributing to.
Contributing fixes and improvements to Omarchy itself, helping bring it to Apple silicon, and building the tools around it.
OMASNAP / CONTRIBUTOR & COMMITTER
Making a good tool better, together.
More than 40 merged PRs to Tobi Lütke’s Omasnap screenshot editor.
“Jon is doing fab work on omasnap.” Tobi LütkeOmacal
x3me/omacalA native calendar for Google, iCloud, and CalDAV.
Vim-style keyboard navigation, a menubar agenda with meeting controls, custom recurrence, and direct Zoom joins.
Blip
nixfred/blipiMessage in the Omarchy bar.
Contact review and vCard export, group read receipts, pinned-chat shortcuts, and a more accessible composer.
EdgeControl
kemalandic/edgecontrolA native macOS dashboard for any display.
Reminders and Sticky Note widgets, a faster edit mode with undo, and a working Swift 6 build and test suite.
decomposer
fidecastro/decomposerLinux software for the Opal C1 webcam.
Reader-driven camera routing and a movable control panel.
herdr
herdrdev/herdrThe runtime your coding agents live on.
Returning focus to the pane a split was opened from.
ssh-clipboard
standardagents/ssh-clipboardEncrypted clipboard sync over SSH for macOS and Linux.
Images copied on Linux that paste correctly on macOS.
Bazecor
Dygmalab/BazecorThe configurator for Dygma keyboards.
Making Layer Lens usable on Wayland.
Omarchy iCloud Photos
jankeesvw/omarchy-icloud-photosYour iCloud Photos library as a native Omarchy window.
Ctrl+C and right-click copying with browser-compatible PNGs.
Loopbox
ajanraj/omarchy-loopboxKeyboard-first GIF search for Omarchy.
A Raycast-style GIF picker workflow.
McLovin
guilhermeyo/omarchy-mclovinChoose which browser opens every link.
Direct Zoom meeting targets and an optional Zoom browser companion.
GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN 44.51° N
THE PERSON / STILL WRITING CODE
A developer’s CTO.
I’ve been building with Ruby on Rails since 2005. These days, my work spans web applications, native Rust tools, and leading the teams that build them.
Before co-founding Headway, I spent ten years as a .NET and Rails developer and consultant, a FinTech startup CTO, and a sound engineer and music producer. Now I help founders and product leaders find the right technical approach and carry it through to a working product. I care about the details in the code and the clarity around it.
Open source is where I put that care into practice: building something useful, sharing what I learn, and making the next person’s work a little easier.
Build with me at Headway THINKING OUT LOUD / WRITING & CONVERSATIONS
Notes from the work.
OFF THE KEYBOARD / ON THE SAME PAGE
Good ideas get better
in good company.
Conferences, meetups, and conversations
about the craft of making software.
SPEAKING & CONVERSATIONSLet’s give developers
Let’s give developers
something to take home.
I’m available for conference talks, meetups, and conversations with teams. A few things I’d love to talk about:
- 01Team workflows for agentic development
- 02Building useful native tools with Rust
- 03Rails, maintainability & technical leadership
COMMUNITY · OPEN TO EVERYONE
Omarchy, in Green Bay.
I organize our local Omarchy meetup. Come trade ideas, compare setups, and meet the people behind the keyboards. Your laptop is welcome.
Find the meetup on Luma Part of the global Omarchy meetup calendar ↗GOOD WORK STARTS WITH A CONVERSATION.
Have something
worth building?
A product, a team, or a room full of curious developers.
I’d like to hear about it.