I’m Jacob, from Québec. Where I come from, we say Un vrai couteau suisse (A true Swiss knife), to say that a person is variously skilled and surprises you with unexplained or uncommon knowledge. A bunch of friends started to call me couteau suisse, hence the name of the blog.
Since I was a child, I was always interested in electronics. My grandfather, being an electronics teacher, helped me a lot to learn the basics of circuitry and electricity rules. During my teenage years, I discovered web development, and have since built multiple website projects. Before the end of High School, I had built (from scratch) an e-commerce portfolio to sell digital photographs using a custom CMS and PayPal integration. I also built and maintained a Cydia Repository for jailbroken iOS devices, iCauseFX. After that, I studied Computer Sciences as well as Electronics & Telecommunications, where I learned the logical and academic programing, CAD Design, Networking and Wireless protocols.
Wanting a clean slate to experiment minimal UI and new web paradigms, I set sail to rebuild my portfolio website, this time using Jekyll, GitHub Pages, Stripe and Snipcart. In its fifth year, the project has gone through many iterations. In its current form, Stripe and Snipcart has been put aside. The whole UI is very minimal and soft to the eyes, putting the emphasis on the photographs and the various contexts and thoughts added. Take a look at jacobroy.quebec, also available on GitHub.
A humble place where my old or unused projects can lay back and enjoy the sun. Most of them should still be working.
Multiple unfinished or proof-of-concept projects that helps me get the job done.
This blog is lazyly built from Jekyll and uses the Lanyon theme with some modifications.