Dave Jacoby

Long time computer user. Long time programmer.

Indiana, US Joined on Feb 22, 2017 https://jacoby.github.io/

Education

BS CS, Purdue

Work

Developer

expect.pm

Official source code of the Expect Perl module

Perl • 10 stars

jacoby.github.io

Website and Coding Blog for Dave Jacoby

HTML • 5 stars

PracTimer

PracTimer is a web-based Timer application that uses HTML5, CSS3 and Vanilla Javascript.

JavaScript

Perl and Javascript, bridging web and high performance batch computing

Side project involves IOT and BLE, hopefully moving soon into ML tech to understand the data

Discussions about Remote Work. I kinda just started.

Also, Perl.

35 posts published

163 comments written

7 tags followed

Dave Jacoby

Nov 17 '21

I Met A Var That Wasn’t There: Return of the Spectre of Unicode in Perl

3 min read

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Dave Jacoby

Nov 17 '21

“Won’t SOMEBODY Think Of The Children?!?!?”: The Spectre of Unicode in Perl

4 min read

Dave Jacoby

May 22 '20

What Do Front-End Devs Think About Safari?

#discuss #safari #webdev

2 min read

Dave Jacoby

Oct 24 '19

Transitioning from Ubuntu/Windows+WSL to Mac?

#tools #dev #transition

1 min read

Dave Jacoby

Oct 8 '19

MAC and Me: How Many MAC Addresses Are On Me Right Now?

5 min read

Dave Jacoby

Sep 19 '19

Scripting the Dropbox API

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Sep 13 '19

Scaled Vector Graphics on the Web for Fun and ?

2 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jul 24 '19

Playing with Windows Terminal

#windowsterminal #windows

5 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jul 20 '19

My Shame

2 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jun 27 '19

I did an xargs!

#xargs #unix #commandline

2 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jun 23 '19

"Perl Out Loud", or another way to handle RSI

#rsi #voice #ergonomics #video

1 min read

Dave Jacoby

May 30 '19

Stable Sort and Ways Around It

4 min read

Dave Jacoby

Mar 25 '19

More fun with Javascript Arrays: reimplementing Uniq

4 min read

Dave Jacoby

Mar 18 '19

Javascript Array(): WAT?

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Mar 15 '19

Reminding Myself and Others about DST with Perl

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Feb 7 '19

Namespaces and Javascript: I Don’t Know What I’m Doing

#javascript #namespaces

2 min read

Dave Jacoby

Oct 27 '18

Javascript and JSON.stringify: It Almost Comes Correct

#json

2 min read

Dave Jacoby

Oct 27 '18

Semiconductors - the Bottom-most Turtle

2 min read

Dave Jacoby

Sep 19 '18

The Ethics of Maintenance Code?

2 min read

Dave Jacoby

Sep 12 '18

Is using vim an antipattern?

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Sep 4 '18

Networking, Netmask and Why My Phone Could Not Connect

4 min read

Dave Jacoby

Aug 30 '18

Fighting the Bus Factor with Log::Log4Perl

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jun 26 '18

Is This Snowflake Code?

#identation #formatting

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jun 21 '18

What The Perl Conference 2018 Made Me Do

4 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jun 9 '18

Since that last one was severely without Higher Order code…

#perl

2 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jun 9 '18

Quick Hacks and Higher Order Programming

#perl

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Apr 26 '18

HTTP_DNT: ‘1’ - What To Do?

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Apr 19 '18

Travelling Salesman Portrait - A Variation

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Mar 26 '18

How and Why I Track Coffee

4 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jan 29 '18

On Non-Zero Offsets

2 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jan 8 '18

Seeking an In-Depth Linux-To-Windows Translation

3 min read

Dave Jacoby

Jan 2 '18

Drawing Grids with Perl and SVG

4 min read

Dave Jacoby

Dec 13 '17

“Do I Want To Use Windows Subsystem For Linux?”

#linux #windows

6 min read

Dave Jacoby

Nov 7 '17

No Stupid Questions: Just One Programming Language?

#nostupidquestion

7 min read

Dave Jacoby

Aug 1 '17

"No Stupid Questions: Ones and Zeroes"

#nostupidquestion

2 min read

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