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Jacob Filipp

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170 from 15 Jun 2015 to 4 Nov 2026
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weekly (43 in the last year)
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2026 36

  1. Your decorative seedpod garden with a “second life”
  2. Jacob Eats: Corn Juice
  3. Killed by a Defragmentation Grenade
  4. Re: Once upon a time in a Hanoi café
  5. October Links
  6. A-to-Z across Toronto: Second Half
  7. A-to-Z across Toronto: First Half
  8. A-to-Z Across Toronto: Before the Walk
  9. September Links
  10. Links for August
  11. All Grocery Stores in Canada
  12. Felix and I
  13. Proof Of Care in the Age of A.I.
  14. What to do with Your Big Ugly Concrete Column
  15. Low-Poly Art
  16. Links for July
  17. Make Your Own Paris
  18. I Spent 47 Days Making a Game That Lasted for 30 Minutes
  19. Links for June
  20. At 2026’s Art Undergrad Show (OCADU Gradex 111)
  21. Links for May
  22. Jacob Eats: Girlonabird
  23. Japan’s Print Specimen Exchange
  24. March 2026 Links
  25. PastVu.com
  26. 21,864 Yugoslavian .yu Domains
  27. List of Restrictive Grocery Covenants
  28. What women want
  29. Mindblowing February Links
  30. Toronto Historical Streetview
  31. All Records: Digital Archives Ontario
  32. January links
  33. Betrayal in Space
  34. NEW LORD
  35. December links
  36. Jacob Eats: Crunky

2025 42

  1. Border-Image Tool
  2. Giger QTVR
  3. Abandoned
  4. Removing dust from 2 scans of the same page with Photo Stacking
  5. November links n’ things
  6. Making a Victorian CSS Border: Dual-Motif
  7. Victorian-Style Lines for the Web: Elements of Identical Width
  8. October Links
  9. Brett & Beaver (TV Series 1978-1985)
  10. Lice Pliskies
  11. Ghostpost
  12. Random links – Sept. 2025
  13. Dragon Centre Stories
  14. Victoria Collage
  15. Toronto Street Pics: 2019-2025
  16. Faces
  17. adultsonly
  18. Thanks for the Nightmare Fuel, Midjourney!
  19. After she was Barbie. After he was Ken.
  20. The Blister Exists
  21. Embroidered Life Stories
  22. HATE MACHINE
  23. Canal boat simulator
  24. Jacob’s phone simulator
  25. How to shrink .pck size in Godot (and other tips for HTML5 mobile export)
  26. Tanaka Isson
  27. Cat Demon Returns
  28. Tips from a solopreneur
  29. Jacob Eats: the Kloud
  30. Tiny walrus in a fedora
  31. Experiencing a Victorian London street in 3D
  32. QTVR files – preserving them and extracting embedded images
  33. “Ford hundred and seventy ford years”
  34. Corgizstan
  35. Maharaja
  36. Printers’ International Specimen Exchange (Vol. XIII 1892)
  37. Jean Midolle
  38. Women Printers in Victorian Times
  39. Anton Halauska
  40. A very swinderful font
  41. Ontario’s ICON Computer
  42. Fuzzy Matching with Apache Hop (Pentaho)

2024 46

  1. Toronto Unlimited
  2. An Adventure in Victorian Printing
  3. Waiting for the Kwisatz Haderach
  4. The Printers’ International Specimen Exchange
  5. UI design for stressful situations
  6. Optimizing a large SQLite database for reading
  7. Email Data-Science Posts
  8. $21 Refrigerated Rigatoni
  9. Project Hammer
  10. Manners and Customs of Women
  11. A DAB O’ THE PEN
  12. Cat
  13. Mobile-Friendly Image Maps
  14. By Jove, she’s the new “It Girl”!
  15. The Trouble With Monsters
  16. Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta – high resolution images
  17. Life in Hell
  18. Boardroom
  19. A Humble Proposal to the Toronto Board of Tourism as Regards a Grapic Essence of the City
  20. Updated Terms of Service
  21. Research as leisure activity
  22. Hellbaby
  23. A Day Up North
  24. MSDN Magazine Archive
  25. Hallelujah The Pill
  26. Microsoft Systems Journal – Magazine Covers
  27. A Minimal-Surveillance Way to Embed Youtube Videos
  28. Google finds the lyrics
  29. The Permadance
  30. Jacob Eats: Pretzel Sand
  31. Simply invent your own language
  32. How to preserve a place that’s disappeared
  33. A place I’ve never been to. A place I’ll never go.
  34. Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor)
  35. Download Pictures, Photospheres and Streetview Panoramas from Google Maps
  36. Microsoft Systems Journal
  37. Digital Archival – link dump
  38. Dr. Dobbs – Web Articles from 2008
  39. Every year, I buy a new car.
  40. Find and Replace Text with Multiple Rules (CSV upload)
  41. Search Dr. Dobbs Journal Articles
  42. Jacob Eats: Cream Collon
  43. After ArVid – Closing Notes
  44. Computerra | КОМПЬЮТЕРРА
  45. Dr. Dobb’s Journal (articles from 1988 – 2009)
  46. ArVid: how Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s

2023 15

  1. Is Adobe’s Marketo truly “the worst” at getting emails delivered?
  2. Jacob Eats: Unusual Drinks
  3. Fuben-Eki: the benefits of inconvenience
  4. The Time My Tiny Broccoli Went Viral on Linkedin
  5. Jacob Eats: Chick Boy
  6. Jacob Eats: a Ding Dong
  7. Toronto attractions for visitors
  8. Jacob Eats: Pocari Sweat
  9. Best Work-Tips from Linkedin
  10. 49 min Workshop on Job Searches for Marketing Operations Professionals
  11. The Story of Canada’s Bread Prices in 1 Chart
  12. Jacob Eats: Couque d’Asses
  13. How to save LinkedIn posts permanently
  14. Notes on: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
  15. My Marketing Operations Job Search – with Figures

2022 6

  1. Immigrants arriving in Toronto – my tips for newcomers
  2. Email bot click filtering list – Jacob’s list
  3. CASL compliance: 6 videos with quick facts
  4. 4 Benefits Email Marketers Get from Using a Live “Reply To” Address
  5. Email Marketing in Canada: the Real Story of CASL Compliance
  6. Solving Conversion Tracking Problems on LinkedIn Ads

2021 10

  1. Quality Control & Testing in Pardot: The Path to Feeling Zen When Pressing “Send”
  2. Song Juxtapositions
  3. If your GTM Blocking Trigger is not effective…
  4. “Why is utm_campaign not tracked?” – filling in a missing utm_source in Google Analytics
  5. Email – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
  6. The hurting
  7. Marketing Operations Tools
  8. New misleading metrics from FB, and the ineffectiveness of online ads
  9. Toronto’s most beautiful baby
  10. Common SPF Errors

2020 8

  1. Presentation: Bet you didn’t think you could put that in an email!
  2. What’s it like to be a Marketing Operations Manager?
  3. CanCon Treasures
  4. 6 Ways marketers can be productive despite their “bad data addiction”
  5. Types of Anti-Competitive Behaviour
  6. Pardot: finding the Pardot asset when all you have is a landing page
  7. Sync Outlook Calendar to Google Calendar using Microsoft Power Automate
  8. Tool – convert HTML dropdown options list to Plaintext

2019 1

  1. How to make iFrames auto-resize to 100% height based on content

2018 3

  1. How we did it: Top Tasks analysis on the LexisNexis website
  2. Archived: Default field mappings (Pardot and Salesforce integration)
  3. Search keywords n-gram analysis tool

2017 2

  1. [video] Online marketing tips for small businesses
  2. Electrical bill for 100 Wellesley St. East – Toronto, Canada

2015 1

  1. Creating a Choropleth with Google Maps and GeoJSON