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Karl Jakob

Websites, backend tools, automations. Python and JavaScript mostly, Rust when speed matters.

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  1. Glyphbound Terminal idle MMORPG, offline progression, ratatui
  2. cloudflare-speed-tui Connection grading TUI, idle/loaded latency, traceroute
  3. Jack Murphy Inc Portfolio site for a Tony-nominated Broadway lyricist

About

I've been programming since 2022. Bots, scrapers, CLI tools, client sites.

I cover the whole stack: design, code, deploy, and upkeep.

Location Troy, New York
Education A.A. Palm Beach State College B.A. Computer Science, FIU (in progress)
Email kjakob8@gmail.com

Skills & Tools

Python

Backends, scripts, data pipelines. First thing I open for most jobs.

JavaScript

DOM work, browser APIs, no framework layer in between.

HTML & CSS

Semantic markup and hand-written layouts.

Rust

Systems tools and CLI apps. Built for tools where speed and memory use matter.

REST APIs

Design, integration, error handling. Most of my work touches an API somewhere.

Linux

Arch, Fish shell, Kitty. Day-to-day environment for everything I build.

Services

AI Automation & Integration

Weekly reports pulled by hand, follow-up emails, data copied between tools. I automate them with scripts and LLM calls.

I set it up and plug it into whatever you're already using.

Python Claude Code LLMs Webhooks REST APIs
Web Design & Development

Landing pages to full business sites. Hand-coded, no WordPress, no Squarespace.

HTML & CSS JavaScript Responsive Design
Web Apps & Backend

Custom apps and APIs. Python and JavaScript, async all the way through.

Python REST APIs Async WebSockets
Performance & SEO

Lighthouse audits, Core Web Vitals, load time cuts.

Maintenance & Support

Ongoing updates, hosting, uptime monitoring, and fixes when something breaks.

Work

Jack Murphy Inc site, showing the portrait hero and navigation

Jack Murphy Inc

2026

Portfolio site for a Tony-nominated Broadway lyricist. Custom animations, responsive, keyboard-accessible. Vanilla JS.

  • HTML/CSS
  • Vanilla JS
  • Responsive
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cloudflare-speed-tui site, showing a D grade readout with latency figures and the live terminal capture

cloudflare-speed-tui

2026

Speedtest TUI that measures idle and loaded latency, packet loss, TLS handshake time, and traceroute, then grades the connection A+ through F.

  • Rust
  • ratatui
  • rustls
  • tokio
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Glyphbound site, showing its title over a red cut with a terminal capture of the game

Glyphbound

2026

Terminal-native idle MMORPG. Skills train, loot drops, quests complete whether you're watching or not. Full command palette, action queue, offline progression, TOML-driven content.

  • Rust
  • ratatui
  • tokio
  • TOML
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CCPrompts site, showing the 70 commands headline, a real validator run and the command catalog

CCPrompts

2025

Claude Code plugin. 70 slash commands across 12 dev lifecycle phases, 10 specialized agents. Optional Dagger sandboxing for host-isolated execution.

  • Claude Code
  • Dagger
  • Bun
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RAGnificent

2024

Doc scraper. Rust for the HTML parsing, Python for the API layer and async orchestration. The two talk over FFI.

  • Rust
  • Python
  • asyncio
  • FFI
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Experience

Nov 2022 - Present

Independent Development

Self-Employed

Automation and trading tools in Python and Rust. Lots of async, real-time data, WebSockets.

  • Monitoring systems tracking live data feeds via asyncio
  • Pattern detection on real-time market streams
  • WebSocket clients for exchange APIs
Aug 2022 - Aug 2023

Web Developer

Toy Mories (Freelance)

Built a site end-to-end for a single client. Design, frontend, backend, hosting.

  • Custom responsive site
  • Server setup, DNS, and hosting
  • Performance work and ongoing updates from client feedback

Contact

Available for new projects. Email me what you need built. I usually reply the same day.

Email
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