My name is Jacob – I am a marketing operations professional based in midtown Toronto.
I help businesspeople and technologists understand and value each other. My speciality is data-based marketing and revenue optimization. I am an emotional man.
Project Hammer
I run the biggest open database of Canadian Grocery prices.
History
Victorian London metaverse
Behance in 1880
Women in the printing trade
Toronto Unlimited – ick!
Made-in-Ontario computer
2TB of storage on VHS
Toronto’s most beautiful baby
Archival
A mall I’ve never been to
Dr Dobbs’ Journal archive
QTVR – old 360 panorama files
Grab pics from Google Streetview
Saving Linkedin threads
Professional
Optimizing SQLite for read speed
How good are various marketing automation vendors at staying off blocklists?
Top Tasks Analysis
My 3 year job search
You need to stop using a noreply mailbox
Reality of CASL compliance in Canada
Unusual things you can put into email
Fun Stuff
Canal Boat Simulator game
After she was Barbie. After he was Ken.
Hate your way out
The country of Corgizstan
Cat demon
I eat a ding dong
Life in hell
Behind the scenes & bonuses
Arvid VHS post
PISE post
Preserving images from a vanished place
Latest posts:
- NEW LORD
- December links
- Jacob Eats: Crunky
- Border-Image Tool
- Giger QTVR
- Abandoned
- Removing dust from 2 scans of the same page with Photo Stacking
- November links n’ things
- Making a Victorian CSS Border: Dual-Motif
- Victorian-Style Lines for the Web: Elements of Identical Width
- October Links
- Brett & Beaver
- Lice Pliskies
- GHOST
- Random links – Sept. 2025
- Dragon Centre Stories
- Victoria Collage
- Toronto Street Pics: 2019-2025
- Faces
- adultsonly
- Thanks for the Nightmare Fuel, Midjourney!
- After she was Barbie. After he was Ken.
- The Blister Exists
- Embroidered Life Stories
- HATE MACHINE
- Canal boat simulator
- Jacob’s phone simulator
- How to shrink .pck size in Godot (and other tips for HTML5 mobile export)
- Tanaka Isson
- Cat Demon Returns
- Tips from a solopreneur
- Jacob Eats: the Kloud
- Tiny walrus in a fedora
- Experiencing a Victorian London street in 3D
- QTVR files – preserving them and extracting embedded images
- “Ford hundred and seventy ford years”
- Corgizstan
- Maharaja
- Printers’ International Specimen Exchange (Vol. XIII 1892)
- Jean Midolle
- Women Printers in Victorian Times
- Anton Halauska
- A very swinderful font
- Ontario’s ICON Computer
- Fuzzy Matching with Apache Hop (Pentaho)
- Toronto Unlimited
- An Adventure in Victorian Printing
- Waiting for the Kwisatz Haderach
- The Printers’ International Specimen Exchange
- UI design for stressful situations
- Optimizing a large SQLite database for reading
- Email Data-Science Posts
- $21 Refrigerated Rigatoni
- Project Hammer
- Manners and Customs of Women
- A DAB O’ THE PEN
- Cat
- Mobile-Friendly Image Maps
- By Jove, she’s the new “It Girl”!
- The Trouble With Monsters
- Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta – high resolution images
- Life in Hell
- Boardroom
- A Humble Proposal to the Toronto Board of Tourism as Regards a Grapic Essence of the City
- Updated Terms of Service
- Research as leisure activity
- Hellbaby
- A Day Up North
- MSDN Magazine Archive
- Hallelujah The Pill
- Microsoft Systems Journal – Magazine Covers
- A Minimal-Surveillance Way to Embed Youtube Videos
- Google finds the lyrics
- The Permadance
- Jacob Eats: Pretzel Sand
- Simply invent your own language
- How to preserve a place that’s disappeared
- A place I’ve never been to. A place I’ll never go.
- Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor)
- Download Pictures, Photospheres and Streetview Panoramas from Google Maps
- Microsoft Systems Journal
- Digital Archival – link dump
- Dr. Dobbs – Web Articles from 2008
- Every year, I buy a new car.
- Find and Replace Text with Multiple Rules (CSV upload)
- Search Dr. Dobbs Journal Articles
- Jacob Eats: Cream Collon
- After ArVid – Closing Notes
- Computerra | КОМПЬЮТЕРРА
- Dr. Dobb’s Journal (articles from 1988 – 2009)
- ArVid: how Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s
- Is Adobe’s Marketo truly “the worst” at getting emails delivered?
- Jacob Eats: Unusual Drinks
- Fuben-Eki: the benefits of inconvenience
- The Time My Tiny Broccoli Went Viral on Linkedin
- Jacob Eats: Chick Boy
- Jacob Eats: a Ding Dong
- Toronto attractions for visitors
- Jacob Eats: Pocari Sweat
- Best Work-Tips from Linkedin