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It took Jonathan until we hired Jeremiah to write my welcome post, so it seems only fitting that I waited until we hired somebody else to finally write this post officially announcing Jeremiah to team awe.sm.

How Jeremiah and I know each other is a pretty odd story. Back in 2002, he appeared in one of Apple’s ‘switcher’ commercials. I emailed him at the time, then we kept very intermittently in touch until 2007, when I moved to California. We found we have a lot in common, and started talking (mostly via his Twitter stream) about webdev, politics, and more. We finally met in person in 2009 when I visited L.A., where he lived until last month.

Since 2002 JC has been busy writing, coding, founding his own app company — oh, and surviving a helicopter crash into San Francisco Bay (really! You can read about it on his Wikipedia page). I was always very impressed with his combination of design talent and coding skill, as well as his entrepreneurial drive, and Jonathan felt similarly when they met at BarCamp LA last year. So when the time came to hire a front-end developer for awe.sm, he was one of the first people we thought of.

Now he’s been on the team more than 3 months already (yikes! Time flies when you’re having fun) and we couldn’t be happier. He’s built our beautiful new front-end (still in beta!), so perfectly that Jonathan once mistook the working site for the photoshop mock-up — what better compliment could a web developer receive?

Jeremiah’s blogged about his own feelings about the job and the move to San Francisco a while back, so all that remains is to say, finally: welcome on board