“Everyone loves working with Jake! Jake does high level work, can architect projects on his own, performs code review and deployments, and helps other engineers. He’s productive and can be counted on to work hard toward on-time task completion. Jake works well with every member of the tech team as well as people from other departments at WIRED. Jake is also major contributor of outside ideas, conferences, and news items to the team’s attention. Jake has great people skills and a good sense of humor that adds to the team culture. Jake demonstrates his leadership in the tech community by speaking at conferences, being a brand advocate, and recruiting. Jake innovates through experimentation and has great enthusiasm for the team, the work, and WIRED. Jake is a great asset to any web development team.”
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I've been doing this for a few weeks now, but I'm happy to share that after a couple of interim turns in the role over the past few years, I've now…
I've been doing this for a few weeks now, but I'm happy to share that after a couple of interim turns in the role over the past few years, I've now…
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Thrilled to share that Automattic has been certified as a 'Most Loved Workplace' for the third consecutive year! 🏆 I truly love my workplace and am…
Thrilled to share that Automattic has been certified as a 'Most Loved Workplace' for the third consecutive year! 🏆 I truly love my workplace and am…
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Welcome to Automattic for Agencies. Become an Automattic partner and gain access to discounted pricing, commissions on referrals, premier support…
Welcome to Automattic for Agencies. Become an Automattic partner and gain access to discounted pricing, commissions on referrals, premier support…
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President
Continental Little League
- Present 5 years 11 months
Children
Continental Little League (CLL) offers the local youth a structured baseball and softball program within the guidelines of Little League International. Players from ages 4-14 are eligible to participate in a community and recreational focused atmosphere.
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Information Director
Continental Little League
- 2 years 1 month
Children
In addition to coaching as a board member of Continental Little League, I work to disseminate information, and craft better strategy around operations.
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GoPro Swivel Camera Mount
Make: Magazine - Maker Media
See publicationI was watching one of the new short videos for the GoPro the other day, and a shot of a skier had a camera move that spun around the skiers head, if you can picture it, my jaw hit the floor, followed by a bunch of speculation how the camera move was made. My brother Ty tipped me off to a shadow, that showed a helicopter like helmet attachment, where the camera was mounted on castor like mount, allowing the camera to spin around the skier, like bullet time from the matrix movies.
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Bootstrap, Responsive Web Development
O'Reilly Media
See publicationBootstrap is a simple HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for building user interface components and websites. If you want to build killer web interfaces and jump on top of trends like responsive sites, then Bootstrap should be at the foundation of your site build. In addition to the responsive framework, Bootstrap offers a suite of jQuery tools like a revolving slideshow, tabbable interface, drop down menus, and custom modal windows. In this book, we'll look into how you can add these tools to…
Bootstrap is a simple HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for building user interface components and websites. If you want to build killer web interfaces and jump on top of trends like responsive sites, then Bootstrap should be at the foundation of your site build. In addition to the responsive framework, Bootstrap offers a suite of jQuery tools like a revolving slideshow, tabbable interface, drop down menus, and custom modal windows. In this book, we'll look into how you can add these tools to your development workflow.
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Sweet new feature on WordPress.com: scheduled plugin updates with logging and automatic rollbacks https://lnkd.in/diSQNRjt Many thanks to Wayne…
Sweet new feature on WordPress.com: scheduled plugin updates with logging and automatic rollbacks https://lnkd.in/diSQNRjt Many thanks to Wayne…
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A big yellow ray of sunshine when your feed may contain a lot of dark perspectives on journalism. Congrats to the Vox team on the vox.com re-launch.
A big yellow ray of sunshine when your feed may contain a lot of dark perspectives on journalism. Congrats to the Vox team on the vox.com re-launch.
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Show us where you're working from today 💻📆📎🗒️💼 Here’s a look into what remote work looks like for some folks here at Automattic!
Show us where you're working from today 💻📆📎🗒️💼 Here’s a look into what remote work looks like for some folks here at Automattic!
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So excited to be working with Jen and Michael!
So excited to be working with Jen and Michael!
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Exciting news from Automattic and WordPress.com! We're introducing a smart new approach to building websites that we believe will be the easiest way…
Exciting news from Automattic and WordPress.com! We're introducing a smart new approach to building websites that we believe will be the easiest way…
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There are some great publishing tech folks I know who are now looking for work - product mgmt, project mgmt, and WordPress/Laravel/Javascript…
There are some great publishing tech folks I know who are now looking for work - product mgmt, project mgmt, and WordPress/Laravel/Javascript…
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WordPress VIP and rtCamp are collaborating to help businesses adapt to the Privacy Sandbox initiative. This industry-wide effort marks an important…
WordPress VIP and rtCamp are collaborating to help businesses adapt to the Privacy Sandbox initiative. This industry-wide effort marks an important…
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An awesome new initiative between the fine folx here WordPress VIP and our partners at rtCamp and Google around the Google Privacy Sandbox in Chrome.…
An awesome new initiative between the fine folx here WordPress VIP and our partners at rtCamp and Google around the Google Privacy Sandbox in Chrome.…
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Today I spent an hour pulling together a new map of #BayArea #Makerspaces for adding to our Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley…
Today I spent an hour pulling together a new map of #BayArea #Makerspaces for adding to our Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley…
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A huge +1, thanks Dave Stepp for hosting and look forward to growth in our partnership!
A huge +1, thanks Dave Stepp for hosting and look forward to growth in our partnership!
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Amazing 2-days with WordPress VIP and Accenture Federal Services in beautiful San Antonio kicking off our partnership to bring scalable, secure…
Amazing 2-days with WordPress VIP and Accenture Federal Services in beautiful San Antonio kicking off our partnership to bring scalable, secure…
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After three years supporting enterprise companies at WordPress VIP, followed by three years helping independent media outlets at Newspack, I've…
After three years supporting enterprise companies at WordPress VIP, followed by three years helping independent media outlets at Newspack, I've…
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