Jacob Tener
Welcome to my portfolio! I am currently a freelance web developer with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. This page will be used to show off some of the projects I've done! This was built using custom HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap v4.5
Web Projects
Iowa City Tenants Union
This site uses Node.js and Express to connect to Mongo DB and serve responses rendered with PUG to the user along with static files. This site has custom (responsive) HTML, CSS, and JS work. It also features client side form validation and passport authentication.
Loruki
A static site built from custom HTML and CSS. This site displays some cool design as well as CSS keyframe transitions. Loruki showcases a new age, sleek look that will keep users pleased as they navigate the site.
Floral Flowers
This site uses Node.js to serve static files to the user. It features another entirely built from scratch HTML and CSS design. The images really pop out on the screen, which makes the flowers more attractive and likely to be bought. This site may load slowly due to free hosting.
More Projects
Word Racer
This site is a fun Type Racer game that uses fetch api to grab words from random-word-api.herokuapp.com and checks on each keystroke to see if words match before displaying a new word. This app is mostly client side javascript. May load slowly on free hosting.
MTG Search
This app uses Fetch Api to search api.magicthegathering.io for Magic: The Gathering cards matching by name. This was fun since MTG is a big hobby of mine. Styling the results and displaying a gif during long query times are my highlights from the project. May load slowly on free hosting.
React To-Do List
This app makes get and post requests to https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos and renders the todos into components. The addToDo component updates the ToDoList component with an additional ToDoItem containing the entered fields. Data does not persist, but components do update in real time.
Class Projects
FPGA Sound Classifier
Senior Design Project - Top 5 Projects in Class
This project was done in a team of 5. I handled the software of the project, while my peers focused on hardware. The project proposal stated that we needed to design a batteryless FPGA performing some type of computation. At the time I was very interested in neural networks, so I proposed that we compute sound classification. Thanks to python's helpful libraries, I was able to handle it on my own. This was achieved through sampling a sound input, calculating its Mel Frequency Cepstral Co-efficients, and running those against the saved model to infer which classification the sound was closest to (from 10 distinct trained classifications).
Find more info about this in my blog here
Adventurous Art
Android App - Top Project out of 200 groups
This was a 14 week project done by three friends and I. The App is essentially a finger painting instagram. A user can log on and create a new drawing, trace a famous drawing, remix a friends drawing, or just browse one of their feeds. A user has a public feed and a friends feed of all the people they've decided to follow. My favorite feature is that you can hold your thumb on a drawing and it will be re-created infront of your eyes, stroke by stroke.
For this project I was the server side dev, and my three peers worked client side. I used Java and its handy SpringBoot framework to develop a REST api for our client-side team to send requests to. I also managed our MySQL tables and their relations. In addition to these things, this was my first real exposure to using GIT in teams.
Find more pictures of the app in my blog here
NightLife
Android App
This was a 10 week project done between myself and a partner. I again developed server side, but this time I chose to use Javascript and Node.js to serve responses to the client. In addition to this, I developed some on the client side in android studio.
This app connected to google maps api as well as our personal api to run its map function, which displayed night time hotspots for any given location. In addition to this, we stored personal notes on each location for a user to record their experience at a venue.
This image shows the home screen right after log in. It drops a blue dot and a pin at the user's location and then pins the hotspots within a 5 mile radius.
