Jacob Filipp

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.

Groceries
I run the biggest open database of Canadian Grocery prices. And made the biggest open set of “restrictive covenants” that grocers use to kill competition. Aaaand mapped all major grocery stores in Canada. Did you know that the criminals behind the 2001-2015 bread price-fixing scheme are still benefitting form it today?

History
Victorian London metaverse.
ICON: the made-in-Ontario computer.
ArVid: 2TB of storage on VHS tape.

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.
Remove dust from scans by “photo stacking“.

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.

Toronto
I walked across the city: day 0, day 1, day 2.
Toronto’s back-in-time streetview.
Toronto Unlimited – bad tourism ads.
Toronto’s most beautiful baby.
A day up North.

Fun Stuff
I spent 47 days making a 30 min game.
GHOST – based on true events.
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.
What women want.

Artists
The Blister Exists.
Life stories embroidered.
Tanaka Isson.
Jean Midolle.
Mira Calligraphiae.

Behind the scenes & bonuses
Arvid VHS post.
PISE post.
Preserving images from a vanished place.

Artistic printing
A Victorian “specimen exchange” elevated the art of printing. My thoughts and favourites from the exchange. Japanese printers start their own exchange. Learning about women in the printing trade, in the 1800s. And looking at a relative of one of these printers.

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