hello!

my name is JR Heard.

i'm a programmer living in san francisco. i like programming, music, and clouds. i work for yelp, so if yelp ever breaks or sucks for any reason, you should tell me about it, and it'll get fixed.

i maintain these projects regularly or semi-regularly:

• hi mom, i made you a mixtape - a place where, every month from july '09 until forever, i put up a new mixtape full of wonderful music for my mom (and anyone else who cares to visit) to enjoy.
• non-mom music - himom's twin sister. on occasion, i post a song that i like very much and that my mom probably won't.
• a page of tumbling madness - the closest thing i have to a blog, in which i exercise my love of talking about programming, and other things too.

and here's a sampling of some projects i've completed recently:

• yelp's "hot new businesses" feature - see it for yourself on the homepage for sf, portland, austin, and lots of other cities.
• yelp's "hipster ambience" feature - more coverage at huffington post, TIME, and eater. would you believe me if i told you that this was the result of two months of hard work?
• yelp's palm pre application - developed and released in roughly three weeks. special thanks to eric m. singley and pretz. coverage by palm, download.cnet.com, and others.
• level 1 in project euler - been teaching myself common lisp, figured this'd be as good a way as any to cement my knowledge.

if you'd like to keep in touch, you can find me on twitter, tumblr, last.fm, facebook, del.icio.us, yelp, or github, among other Inter-places. as long as you're here, you'd also be more than welcome to check out my resume in LinkedIn form, but i'm not currently taking on any new projects and/or jobs.

thanks again for dropping by!