Jake Spurlock lives in Concord, California. Married with three children. He likes spending time outdoors, ideally on two wheels.
He volunteers a lot of time with Walnut Creek Little League. He has coached and been on the board for around ten years now, sheesh.
While he used to blog a lot more, Twitter is where most of the time is wasted currently.
You can also follow on Instagram.
Recent Posts
- Celluloid: A Virtual Camera App for macOS
I’ve had a Logitech C920 webcam for years. It’s a solid camera, but I’ve always hated its color grading — it pushes everything red, making me look perpetually sunburned on video calls. Zoom has a “Touch up my appearance” filter that helped a bit, but most of my calls happen in Google Meet, which doesn’t… Read more: Celluloid: A Virtual Camera App for macOS - I Wanted Podcast Transcriptions. iOS 26 Delivered (and Nearly Melted My Phone).
Testing iOS 26’s on-device speech recognition: faster than realtime, but your phone might disagree Apple’s iOS 26 introduced SpeechTranscriber – a promise of on-device, private, offline podcast transcription. No cloud, no subscription, just pure silicon magic. I built it into my RSS reader app. Here’s what actually happened. The Setup The Good News: It’s Actually Fast Episode… Read more: I Wanted Podcast Transcriptions. iOS 26 Delivered (and Nearly Melted My Phone). - Visualizing Student Progress with Traveler
Teaching web development means watching students grow from their first <html> tag to building complete websites. But that journey happens commit by commit, spread across weeks of work. I wanted a way to actually see that progression—to watch a student’s project evolve from blank page to finished product. The Problem When grading student web projects, I’d often find myself… Read more: Visualizing Student Progress with Traveler - Today 1.9: Your RSS Reader Now Plays Podcasts
When I first built Today, the goal was simple: bring back the joy of RSS. No algorithms, no tracking, just your feeds in chronological order. But RSS has always been more than articles—it’s how podcasts were born. Podcasts are just RSS feeds with audio enclosures. It’s elegant, really. The same open standard that delivers your… Read more: Today 1.9: Your RSS Reader Now Plays Podcasts - Automating Little League Boundary Verification
Every registration season, Little League board members face the same tedious task: verifying that each player’s address falls within the league’s official boundaries. With over a thousand registrations, manually checking each address against the Little League Finder becomes a time sink that takes volunteers away from what matters—getting kids on the field. The Problem The… Read more: Automating Little League Boundary Verification