Hello, I'm Jake! 👋

I work as a Principal Android Engineer at 🐸Seatfrog🐸, and do open source web-y / writing-y things in my spare time.

I'm sporadically working on (unreleased):

• Appbini (Android, Backend) (Stack: Ktor, Exposed)
• WordCrawler (Android, iOS, Desktop) (Stack: Kotlin & Compose Multiplatform, Room, etc)
• Commit.Email (Stack: Node.js, TypeScript, Octokit, GitHub Apps)

Writing

• 6 February - Android game reviews: Droplet Idle 💧, Idle Gem ⛏️, ♾️ Energy Loops
• 30 January - Adding accurate AsyncImage previews in Coil 3 with a Compose wrapper
• 29 December - Even more Android games I’ve enjoyed: Railbound 🚂, String of Words 🪢, Orbia ⚽
• 3 December - A real-world comparison between Lenovo’s ThinkBook 16p Gen 2 and 16p Gen 6 (with photos!)
• 2 December - More Android games I’ve enjoyed: Spin Hero 🎰, Prune 🌲, Psychofunk ▶️

Substack

Reading

• Watership Down (Watership Down, #1) by Richard Adams (⭐️4.08)
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (⭐️4.15)
• The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr (⭐️3.85)
• Into the Forest (The Familiar, #2) by Mark Z. Danielewski (⭐️4.18)
• Conclave by Robert Harris (⭐️4.06)
• The Collected Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman: I by Robert Aickman (⭐️4.66)

Goodreads