Jacob Ford
Founder at The City Reliquary
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Ford is a founder, designer-developer, and curator with 11 years of experience blending code, material culture, and archival practice from a studio in New York. He builds resilient journalistic infrastructure and geospatial experiences while running a mystery-shrouded design studio and managing material production for Mmuseumm’s seasonal exhibitions. Comfortable across build & release automation (contributing to Homebrew cask maintenance) and hands-on artifact facsimile and book design, he connects technical packaging work with tactile, public-facing projects. His background in Ethics of Design informs a practice that treats software, objects, and space as equal parts of civic storytelling.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Ethics of Design, Bachelor of Science - BS, Ethics of Design at New York University
German
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Github Skills (22)
homebrew-cask10
ruby10
homebrew10
software-packaging10
ffmpeg9
setinterval9
automation9
font-size9
zsh9
automations9
html9
yaml8
version-control7
typography6
clojure6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
💀 Alternate versions of Casks (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:7 commits, 11 PRs, 10 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributes to updating and maintaining Cask definitions within the Homebrew Cask Versions repository. Their work focuses on updating software versions, which includes modifying URLs, checksums, and other metadata in Ruby files. The user's contributions also extend to adding new applications, such as the Alfred Early Access program, demonstrating their involvement in the automation of software packaging and distribution. This suggests a focus on keeping the repository current with the latest software releases and streamlining the process of installing applications via Homebrew.
caskscaskhomebrewalternate
unitof/self-docs-content
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:40 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
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