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
- Draft Night: Open Source Little League Draft Software
For over a decade, I’ve been running Little League drafts out of a Google Sheet. You know the drill: a meticulously crafted spreadsheet, a dozen coaches with varying comfort levels around technology, and me hovering over the shared document praying nobody accidentally deletes a formula. The snake draft order alone caused confusion every year. Round… Read more: Draft Night: Open Source Little League Draft Software - ScriptStrip: A Simple Transcription App for macOS
I created ScriptStrip, a simple Mac app that allows users to transcribe audio or video files by dragging and dropping them into the interface. It processes everything locally using Apple’s speech recognition, ensuring privacy. The app features automatic formatting, timestamps, and searchable transcripts, avoiding the need for cloud services or complex workflows. - Introducing Jewel Case: Spotify Album Art for Your Mac Desktop
Remember when music was physical? You’d flip through a stack of CDs, admiring the album art before deciding what to spin. The jewel case was part of the experience—the artwork set the mood before the first note played. Streaming killed that ritual. Spotify buried album art behind tiny thumbnails, and unless you’re staring at your… Read more: Introducing Jewel Case: Spotify Album Art for Your Mac Desktop - 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