About Me

- Hi, I'm Jacob. I'm a current undergraduate computer science student at - the University of Manitoba and infrastructure developer at the National - Microbiology Lab. I'm planning on continuing on to do a master's degree - at the U of M as well. -

- My big interests outside of computers these days are tea and fountain - pens. I also am really into literature, but haven't been able to find - the time to read all that much as of late. -

- In terms of computers, the hardware I'm most interested in is older - video game consoles (which I want to eventually start some projects - with) and microcontrollers. I like being able to fully understand how - the hardware works which becomes a challenge for more complicated - devices. -

- In a similar vein, I like being able to understand the software that I - use which is why I like using free (as in freedom) software. Emacs is my - text editor of choice although I also use (neo)vim on remote machines - (and at work due to some incompatibilities with the available version of - Emacs and my configuration). My language of choice for personal projects - is C. I enjoy the limited number of keywords in the language as it - allows me to keep the full language inside of my head and allow me to - focus on writing the algorithms, although Python is nice for rapid - prototyping. Go is a nice middle-ground that I choose sometimes when I - want faster code than Python or a stronger typing system. Another - language that I enjoy is Rust, although I don't find myself writing it - very often. -