Jason Sackey
Programmer based in London: into the cutting-edge of tech, the history of computing, science fiction, VR, game development. Solving problems with simple design and clean code.
🧾 Writing
Converting Kindle books to EPUB format
…is not easy. But it’s possible. At least, at the time of writing, and the handful of ebooks I tried so far. There are many such guides online, often incomplete. Or more accurately, out of date, because Amazon subsequently added more stumbling blocks. I shall document what worked for me, a combination of steps fromContinue reading “Converting Kindle books to EPUB format”
Site domain moved
To jasonsackey.wordpress.com and I may further move it to my personal domain, jasonsackey.com which needs more content anyway. I still own/rent overflow.space, which still points here. It’s still a good name.
Simple static wiki [WIP]
I’m setting up a lightweight wiki for dumping notes on miscellaneous topics up to a website as a set of arbitrarily-linked pages. Here’s my first pass solution, using the Eleventy/11ty static site generator. https://github.com/sackeyjason/mcwiki 11ty converts the markdown into HTML files (in folders too). It also does templating, which I’ve yet to get my headContinue reading “Simple static wiki [WIP]”
Beginning development with function and a DB on Begin
I wrote about my impressions with this software development platform: View at Medium.com I expressed some confusion about certain obstacles and described some workarounds. Ryan from the project replied on Twitter and helped me towards figuring out the issues, and I’m quite satisfied with proper solutions. I amended my post with the answers. But IContinue reading “Beginning development with function and a DB on Begin”
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💻 Software development
Building on the Web since 2012: sites, apps, frontends, backends, games…
🕹️ Games
📦 Bankoso
Sokoban-like puzzle game. Push blocks around. Unlike in the original, here you can shove multiple blocks simultaneously.
🧩 Orbital (WIP)
Build a lovely space habitat in this tetromino-based action-puzzle game.
📂 Work
- Web development with HTML, CSS, and JS
- React, GraphQL, Angular, Backbone, jQuery, Sass
- I’m on LinkedIn 🏢
