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The resume of Jared Updike
PDF Résumé of Jared Updike
HTML design of my résumé.
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LinkedIn
My LinkedIn Profile
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Jareditorial: Jared.Updike.org
Advice from Opinion Jay. My weblog, built with Magpiler.
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Magpiler
Command-line software to make a small, simple website or blog from a folder full of Markdown and JS template files (lit-html). Generate a static website.

Photography, Graphic Design & Art Projects

Graphical, abstract representation of a blue sky and mountains over a red canyon landscape
USA.Updike.org
Updike Stories of Adventure
A map of North America in green on blue
US Parks Map
“Physical Map” tiles I made from NASA data
Wild Faces Scenic Places - Blue Morpho Butterfly Face
Wild Faces, Scenic Places
Photography Portfolio of Jared & Royal Updike
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Nitpic
is an Interactive Thumbnailer, Publisher, and Image Captioner. Powers USA, WF/SP and AI art galleries.
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Great OFL Typefaces
Type samples of some high-quality Open Font License type faces.
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Panglyphs: A Visual History
of over 100 notable typefaces.
A digital book (PDF, 260+ pages, 60+ MB).
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Ebook Cover Designs
Graphic Designs for a random assortment of ebooks, many of them in the Public Domain
A graphical representation of a mustachioed, hairy man, wearing a sombrero with the words 'Nacho Average' on the hat and the word TACO for a face
Graphic Design Work
Projects for Intro Graphic Design Art Center at Night Class
A drawing of a young lady with flowing golden locks, looking downward
Sketches in Pencil & Pen
Mostly of people on the subway train in LA
An iridescent bronze sculpture of a female face
Aintings
AI-powered artwork created by myself

Commercial Apps & Open Source Projects

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WetPaint: Finger Painting
A Drawing & Painting App for You & Your Toddler
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BPM: Percussion Metronome
An Easy-to-Use Practice Metronome & Drum Loop App
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Harmonious
Exhaustive Piano & Guitar Chord & Scale App, for Students, Composers, Songwriters, Arrangers & Working Musicians
SVG + JS = TSVG
TSVG NPM Package
Turing-complete SVG preprocessor

Collaborations

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Recipes Brain
Collected or Developed by Myself and My Wife
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TheBrain
My day job. I do a lot of front-end (UI/UX) work.
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Ebookshelf: a TSVG demo
Standard Ebooks as a Virtual Bookshelf. Graphic Design/UI/UX Project.
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Standard Ebooks
Alex Cabal’s volunteer/community Public Domain literature project where I made a tiny contribution

Social Media

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@JaredUpdike
Follow me on Twitter
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PureJadeKid
My YouTube Channel

Family

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Photography of Lisle Chandler Updike
Selections of what my great-grandfather photographed in Mesa Verde in 1909—1911
A small black and white sketch of Laura Fisher
Laura Harrison Fisher Herbst
A place to put modern Ebook renditions of the text of my maternal grandmother’s children’s novels
Cari Updike Fine Art logo: the artist's signature
Cari Updike Fine Art
Fine Art Oil Paintings by my own dear mother
The Updike Orthodontics logo where the O is a smile
Updike Orthodontics
An Orthodontics Practice in Orange County, CA