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Challenger Approaching: I am joining the DEV team!

Jacob Herrington (he/him) on September 30, 2019

It's official, today is my first day working with the DEV team. I've made a handful of PRs to DEV and posted a few articles here, but I'm stoked t...

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Michael Tharrington • Sep 30 '19

Welcome to the team, Jacob! 🥳

And might I add, that's a great last name you have. So familiar, yet still so different. 🙂

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 30 '19

😂 Glad to be here!

Pauline • Oct 4 '19

Congratulations Jacob! 🎉

Your name looked awfully familiar to me and I just realised that it's because I found your instagram profile early 2018 and really liked your "coding pictures" ha! Very random fact but I wanted to share it anyway. 😂 Great to see you here on DEV.to and wishing you the best of luck on this new chapter. 🙌🏻

Laurie • Sep 30 '19

So fun! Congrats Jacob!

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 30 '19

Yeah, it seems like a pretty good gig 😉

Yaser Al-Najjar • Sep 30 '19

Congratz Jacob 🥳

I really enjoy your content... All the best!

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 30 '19

Thanks Yaser, I'm glad you get something out of it 🤙

Ahmad Awais ⚡️ • Sep 30 '19

Congrats! 🎉

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 30 '19

Thanks Ahmad!

Chris Achard • Sep 30 '19

Congrats! 🎉

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 30 '19

Thanks, Chris!

Alan Barr • Sep 30 '19

Congratulations!

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 30 '19

Thanks Alan!

Johannes Lichtenberger • Sep 30 '19

Congrats, very cool :-)

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 30 '19

Thanks! I'm excited 🤠👍

Yash Dave • Sep 30 '19

Congrats! 😃🎉

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 30 '19

🎉🎉🎉🎉

Dzhavat Ushev • Sep 30 '19

That's awesome! Congrats! 🎉

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 30 '19

Thanks 😁 I'm pumped

vinodchauhan7 • Oct 1 '19

Hey Jacob, Please guide me on this. I also want to contribute in open source community and want to grab opportunities like you.

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Oct 1 '19

Howdy! I saw your DM and I promise to get back to it soon :)

I'd love to help you get some PRs on Dev during Hacktoberfest if you're around!

vinodchauhan7 • Oct 1 '19

yes will wait for it.

Loftie Ellis • Sep 30 '19

Congrats!
I'm curious since you mentioned you are from Arkansas, is Dev.to mostly remote working people?

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 30 '19

Yup! At the moment I'm the westernmost employee at DEV, but it's a pretty distributed team.

rhymes • Oct 1 '19

Welcome to DEV Jacob! :-)))

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Oct 1 '19

Thanks! 🎉

Paul Rumkin • Sep 30 '19

Congrats! What you doing is inspiring.

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Sep 30 '19

Wow, thanks, I'm glad to hear that you like it 😅

Simon Holdorf • Oct 1 '19

You earned it!

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Oct 1 '19

I'm just excited to get to work on this platform officially :)

Victor A. Barzana • Oct 3 '19

Congrats to you but also to the dev team. They are also getting a valuable resource. I'm always checking out your posts and there is always something to take from u.
Best regards,
Victor

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Oct 3 '19

Thanks Victor 😁 I'm glad to hear that!!

Purwanto • Oct 1 '19 • Edited

Congrats Jacob, Nice to meet you

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Oct 1 '19

Thanks! Hope to see you around DEV!

Michaela Greiler • Oct 2 '19

Congratulation Jacob! That's so exciting!

hexrcs • Oct 1 '19

Congrats Jacob! Also been really enjoying your posts here for a while!

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Oct 1 '19

Cool! Glad to hear it. Thanks 😀

Lewis kori • Oct 1 '19

congrats Jacob!! I'm a huge listener of devpath.

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Oct 1 '19

Neat! I'm glad you're enjoying it. Let me know if you have any feedback 😁

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Oct 1 '19

Thanks Felipe! I'm excited 👨‍💻