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Note from Jacob:
Welcome to my personal website! Here you can find personal links as well as a some of what I’ve done in the past.
I’m an undergraduate student at Columbia University studying computer science. I enjoy putting my skills to use while learning new things. For up-to-date goings-on, visit my GitHub or LinkedIn. Feel free to reach out, you can find my contact info there.
Personal Links
Highlighted Projects
A selection of previous projects. May not be completely up-to-date.
- HTTP/1.0 server written in C
- class project, code available upon request
- breadsched
- create a bread baking schedule (server down due to Heroku)
- emacs configuration
- my personal emacs configuration (70+ stars on GitHub)
- custom functions file
- org-preview-html
- emacs minor mode to preview org-exported html (33,000+ downloads from MELPA)
- jakemacs
- experiments with basic emacs configs
- jb3x3
- ultra-budget macropad I designed to address pandemic need and as a first foray into PCB design
- jake-lectorg
- my take on an Emacs-based academic organizer/command central
- common-app-hightlight-web
- tool to help character count for the common app
Talks/Publications
- Sharing Emacs Is Caring Emacs | EmacsConf 2023 Closing Keynote
- Had the honor of delivering the last talk at EmacsConf 2023. I spoke about my journey from learning Emacs to sharing Emacs, and how we can all work to strengthen our community. December 2023.
(concat "Remote High School" "Emacs")- EmacsNYC Lightning Talk on my experience using Emacs in remote high school. January 2021.
This Page
This page was generated from an org-mode with Emacs my operating system text editor of choice. I appreciate the simpliciy and straightforward nature of building a website like this. Nonetheless I am currently teaching myself some modern JavaScript frameworks to build out some project ideas.