Jacob Cons

Hi

My name’s Jacob. I’m a backend-focused software engineer who values explicitness over magic in code. You’ll find me most at home when I’m working with Node or Go.

In my spare time, not having the best musical ear, I have come to appreciate learning lots of music theory as a way to enable me to write pretty sounding things on the guitar.

Projects

did-donald-trump-really-tweet-that

A game where you have to guess whether Donald Trump tweets are real or generated with ai

word-tennis

A multiplayer game in which users have to type related words back and forth under timed pressure. For example, a round could go: apple -> computer -> mouse -> cheese -> holes -> pear (not related to “holes”, so the round ends)

Countdown

Struggle to get things done? With Countdown if you don’t finish a task in time, we’ll send out an embarrassing message from your email account to one of your contacts

Emote

A social network site with a twist: you can only post and comment using exclusively emojis (also includes an AI translator to convert plaintext into emojis)

higher-or-lower-steam

A game where you guess between steam games as to which has more concurrent players

wallpaper-mate

A CLI tool that fetches wallpapers based on your preferences and sets them as your desktop background

get-screen-resolution

An NPM package to get your screen’s resolution

dfm-scraper

A web scraper for downloading maths tutoring resources

data-structures-and-algorithms

Implementations of a bunch of common data structures written in Go

base64

A base64 encoder and decoder written in Go

booking-api

A REST API that handles bookings written in Go

js-golf

Me playing around with code golfing in JS

whack-a-mole

A whack-a-mole game with a timer, sound and high score tracker written with Vue.js

airstream-studio

A static site built with Jekyll for Airstream Studio, a photo booth company

therapy-kitchen

A static site built with Jekyll for Therapy Kitchen, a service that combines therapy with cookery

Links

j@jacobcons.com

Github

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