Hello, I'm Jake! 👋

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

I'm sporadically working on (unreleased):

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

Writing

• 20 July - Yet more Play Pass games! 🦖 Tap Dig My Museum, 🏠 Possessions, 🏎️ Super Arcade Racing
• 14 July - 4 Play Pass game reviews: 🤠 Bounty Of One, 🫁 Homo Machina, ⚔️ MERGE KITCHEN, 🦜 Bird Alone
• 1 July - 4 Play Pass game reviews: 🚀 SPACEPLAN, 🙀 Cat Museum, 🦞 Dungeon Clawler, 🔎 Wind Peaks
• 27 June - 3 simple yet satisfying Android games: 🐰 A Tiny Sticker Tale, 🎰 Scratch Inc, 🎲 Heroll
• 7 May - 3 fun little Android games: 💸 Forest Fables, 💡 Dig-Dig Rush, 📃 Paper War

Substack

Reading

• Fallout New Vegas - Prima Official Game Guide by David Hodgson (⭐️4.15)
• Abroad in Japan: Ten Years in the Land of the Rising Sun by Chris Broad (⭐️4.1)
• Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better by Mark Watson (⭐️4.25)
• The Incomplete Tim Key: About 300 of His Poetical Gems and What-Nots by Tim Key (⭐️4.1)
• Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century by Rowan Moore (⭐️4.22)
• Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2) by James S.A. Corey (⭐️4.36)

Goodreads