Jake DeGroot

@jake-degroot.bsky.social

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Senior software engineer and architect.

The front cover of The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Master Quest game for Nintendo GameCube.
Colorful plastic toy building set with various polygons that snap together with connectors along the edges. They can also have an optional cover in the middle of each shape.
The opening song of Brandi Carlile's Human tour in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The northern lights over my front yard.
The northern lights over my house.
The northern lights over my front yard. They have a brilliant fuchsia hue.
A hummingbird flits around and drinks nectar from the blossoms of a salvia plant. The salvia has bright red blossoms and slightly drooping leaves because I need to water it. The planter is sitting on a wooden deck with a railing just visible behind the flowers. Beyond the railing you can see grass, patio papers, and landscaping rocks that i desperately need to weed.
The Brandi Carlile band performing on stage at Red Rocks.
A close-up up of one of the backup musicians for Lucius playing acoustic guitar.
A full moon, with a reddish hue, rising over the suburbs of Denver, as seen from Red Rocks.
The full moon, as seen from the amphitheater at Red Rocks.
Allison Ponthier singing on stage at Red Rocks.
A close-up of Brandi Carlile singing into her golden microphone.
A close-up of Brandi Carlile singing into her golden microphone.
Keanu Reeves as Connor O'Neil in the movie Hardball. He is wearing a striped blue shirt unbuttoned over a plain white t-shirt. He is holding a baseball bat in his right hand and resting it on his shoulder with his left hand held up and open. He is standing in front of a chain link fence.
A woman running on a paved trail, lined with newly planted trees. In the distance, the American flag hangs from a crane, just visible over a grove of trees.
A young girl holding a small dog.
Myself and my wife at the finish line for the Avera race for the Cure 10k.
Ending title card from a Cowboy Bebop episode stating, "You're gonna carry that weight."
An image showing stats for a 3.5 mile run in Sioux Falls, SD on April 6th.
A graph showing running miles broken out by month. 325 miles over 77 runs with a total run time of 57 hours and an average of 10 minutes per mile.