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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

Welcome to the team, Jacob! 🥳

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

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

😂 Glad to be here!

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Pauline

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. 🙌🏻

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Yaser Al-Najjar

Congratz Jacob 🥳

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

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

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

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Laurie

So fun! Congrats Jacob!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Yeah, it seems like a pretty good gig 😉

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Chris Achard

Congrats! 🎉

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks, Chris!

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vinodchauhan7

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

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

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!

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vinodchauhan7

yes will wait for it.

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Loftie Ellis

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

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

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

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Ahmad Awais ⚡️

Congrats! 🎉

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks Ahmad!

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Dzhavat Ushev

That's awesome! Congrats! 🎉

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks 😁 I'm pumped

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Johannes Lichtenberger

Congrats, very cool :-)

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks! I'm excited 🤠👍

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Yash Dave

Congrats! 😃🎉

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Alan Barr

Congratulations!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks Alan!

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Paul Rumkin

Congrats! What you doing is inspiring.

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

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

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Purwanto • Edited

Congrats Jacob, Nice to meet you

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks! Hope to see you around DEV!

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hexrcs

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

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Cool! Glad to hear it. Thanks 😀

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Lewis kori

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

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

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

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rhymes

Welcome to DEV Jacob! :-)))

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks! 🎉

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Simon Holdorf

You earned it!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

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

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Victor A. Barzana

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

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

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

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Michaela Greiler

Congratulation Jacob! That's so exciting!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks Felipe! I'm excited 👨‍💻