JesseBlacklock.com

SALVETE!

I’m Jesse Blacklock, a software engineer based in Seattle, Washington. I earned my M.S. in Computer Science from CSULB.

I have a wide range of interests including software engineering, philosophy, literature, illustration, calligraphy, art history, video game design, and many others. Outside of work, I enjoy my weekly philosophy book club meetings, tabletop role-playing games with friends, foosball, drawing original characters, Magic the Gathering, and the occasional hiking adventure. I’m always working towards my long-term life goals: publishing a book on philosophy, publishing my custom TTRPG system, learning to dance, and possibly even starting a YouTube channel.

If you'd like to get in contact with me, feel free to hit me up with an email.

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— CHECK OUT THESE PROJECTS! —

Habeas

Habeas is a search engine for .txt and .json files. Habeas supports AND queries, OR queries, phrase queries, and near queries. Aside from performing queries, Habeas can also list the entire vocabulary of the content of the directory, stem terms, and even perform soundex searches. Click the link to give Habeas a try. Happy searching!

CoOpTris

CoOpTris is a co-op game inspired heavily by Tetris. Get your closest friend and work together to complete as many rows as possible before the inevitable game over! I was able to put this project together in 24 hours for BeachHacks 4.

BeachGames Chess

During the spring of 2018 I enrolled in a class which focused on the .NET framework. The main project for the class involved creating a chess application complete with GUI using C# and WPF. I was fortunate enough to collaborate with fellow computer science student Harold Agnote on this project. Though this assignment is technically complete, Harold and I certainly plan to optimize the speed of our AI players in future builds. This was a fun assignment and I am thankful to have had the opportunity to work with Harold on this project. Finally, none of this would have been possible without the excellent guidance of our instructor Neal Terrell. Feel free to download our project and give it a quick play.

SweetDreams

SweetDreams is an application which gradually lowers the volume of YouTube videos over a set period of time. All you have to do is paste the URL of a YouTube video into the input field and designate the time you wish the volume to reach zero. This application is perfect for users who enjoy falling asleep with noise but don't want to bother fiddling around with the volume of their devices. Currently this application is not compatible with Apple devices.

Ult-Tic-Tac-Toe

Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe is a game I learned sometime during high school. It's an enjoyable game so I thought I'd program my own version of it. I was given a chance to complete this project at BeachHacks 3, a Hackathon hosted by CSULB. Ult-Tic-Tac-Toe ended up winning Best Internationalization. Special thanks to Codeis.Software for their excellent BeachHacks panels.