Jake Spurlock

Member Since: October 3rd, 2008
Location: San Francisco, CA
Website: jakespurlock.com
GitHub: whyisjake
Job Title: Technical Account Engineer
Employer: Automattic / WordPress VIP
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Bio

Jake is a lead at Automattic on the VIP Enterprise team. He is the release lead on the Core Security team and led the 5.5 release.

Interests

Photography, skiing, and WordPress…

Contributions Sponsored

Jake Spurlock contributes 20 hours per week to the following teams: Core, Meta.

Contribution History

BuddyPress Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Team
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Security Team
Theme Developer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Committed [51127] to Core Trac:
Widgets: Don't decode HTML entities ahead of the widget constructor. ...

5 days ago
Reopened ticket #50233, in Core Trac:
Limit pagination for comments

5 days ago
Committed [51125] to Core Trac:
Permalinks: Revert the changes stemming from pagination limits. In ...

5 days ago
Closed ticket #30009, in Core Trac:
_wp_put_post_revision checks for errors incorrectly

5 days ago
Committed [51124] to Core Trac:
Revisions: Check and return errors for insertions to revisions. Fixes ...

5 days ago
Closed ticket #45708, in Core Trac:
Allow retrieving adjacent image link markup without echoing it

5 days ago
Committed [51122] to Core Trac:
Media: Add new functions to return the previous/next attachment links. ...

5 days ago
Closed ticket #50233, in Core Trac:
Limit pagination for comments

5 days ago
Committed [51118] to Core Trac:
Permalinks: Limit pagination for posts with comments. Additionally, ...

5 days ago
Closed ticket #45537, in Core Trac:
Allow block editor to be used on the posts page using filters

5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core:
+1

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Journal Entry | WordPress Slack Workspace Unavailability, on the site Team Updates:
Thanks for the update!

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Trial run: Consistent minor release squad leaders for each major branch, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I’m happy to contribute too!

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Feature Plugin: Rollback Update Failure, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Great work here @afragen and the rest of the auto-updates team.

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.5.3 Release – Some Technical Details, on the site Make WordPress Core:
[H]ow to I check all my sites to see if I’m running this bad alpha…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: align the WordPress release cycle with the industry standard, on the site Make WordPress Core:
– The time for working on planned tickets is smaller with this proposal if we…

7 months ago
Wrote a new post, WordPress 5.5.3 Release – Some Technical Details, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Today WordPress 5.5.3 was released, the day following WordPress 5.5.2. It is suboptimal to have…

8 months ago
Wrote a new post, WordPress 5.5.2 Coming October 29th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
As we get deeper into the WordPress 5.6 release cycle, the Core team wanted to…

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Introducing GitHub Actions for Automated Testing, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is super interesting, love the download options.

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Introducing GitHub Actions for Automated Testing, on the site Make WordPress Core:
💥 - Great news, excellent work!

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda: October 14th…, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Could we chat about the possibility of a minor release in the next few weeks?…

8 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Facebook and Instagram embeds to be deprecated October 24th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
tnx amigo

9 months ago
Wrote a new post, Facebook and Instagram embeds to be deprecated October 24th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Facebook recently announced that all oEmbed requests for Facebook and Instagram content will be deprecated…

9 months ago
Wrote a new post, WordPress 5.5 Retrospective: We want to hear from you!, on the site Make WordPress Core:
While the release team is wrapping up the 5.5 processes, we wanted to reach out…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda: September 2nd 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
With 5.5 released, I'd like to put together a retrospective on the release process. I'm…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Deprecated JavaScript globals, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Good observation and I think that following up with a 5.5 retrospective would be a…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Dropping support for old PHP versions via a fixed schedule, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Well, WordPress has always had a very liberal policy for backporting security fixes, so as…

10 months ago
Committed [2364366] to Plugins Trac:
Update to version 0.5.8 from GitHub

10 months ago
Wrote a new post, Core Dev Chat Agenda, August 12, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: . Highlighted/Need Feedback Blog…

10 months ago
Created a new ticket, #5361, in Meta Trac:
Generate 5.5 Gutenprops

10 months ago
Committed [2354269] to Plugins Trac:
Update to version 0.1.6 from GitHub

10 months ago
Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda for August 5th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening . Highlighted/Need Feedback Blog Posts Outcomes…

10 months ago
Committed [2352563] to Plugins Trac:
Update to version 0.1.5 from GitHub

10 months ago
Committed [2350236] to Plugins Trac:
Version 0.5.3

11 months ago
Committed [2350235] to Plugins Trac:
Version 0.5.3

11 months ago
Committed [2350229] to Plugins Trac:
Version 0.5.2

11 months ago
Committed [2350228] to Plugins Trac:
Version bump and cleanup:

11 months ago
Committed [2350226] to Plugins Trac:
Merging

11 months ago
Committed [2350224] to Plugins Trac:
Readme bump

11 months ago
Committed [2350221] to Plugins Trac:
Version 0.5.2

11 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.5 Field Guide, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 5.5 is shaping up to be “the best version of WordPress ever“! This will…

11 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.6: What’s on your wishlist?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Core auto-updates!

11 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for July 29th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Wow, that's amazing. Thanks for bringing that up and charting.

11 months ago
Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda for July 29th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: . Highlighted/Need Feedback Blog…

11 months ago
Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda for July 22nd, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: . Recently Published Dev…

11 months ago
Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda for July 15th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: . Highlighted Blog Posts…

11 months ago
Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda for July 8th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: . Also, @davidbaumwald will…

11 months ago
Wrote a new post, Dev Chat Agenda for July 1st, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It's July! Holy smokes. Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today:…

12 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Rename “invalid”, “worksforme”, and “wontfix” ticket resolutions, on the site Make WordPress Core:
+1

12 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for June 24th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think that while this a good idea, we wouldn't be able to remove the…

12 months ago