TommySchmucker

Employement

I am employed part-time at Facts & Files Digital Services. The company is responsible for transcribathon.eu, a crowdsourcing and citizen science project for describing, annotating, transcribing, and georeferencing historical collections. My role involves developing and maintaining APIs (PHP and Java), databases (MySQL and PostgreSQL), and DevOps operations (Continuous Integration, Docker deployments, etc.).

Freelancing

I’m not assigned to a project at the moment and available for hire.

Personal

I am coding a FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) calculator. in JavaScript. All the existent calulators seems to be rather complex or missing details for my needs.
I am constantly enhancing the UI and features of lebenuntergsegeln.de.

Technology

• LLMs and dockerized RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Genertation) systems
• Dockerized Deployments on Cloud Server Systems
• Europeana Data Model (EDM) specifications in a JSON-LD representation
• METS and ALTO XML schema specifications
• Advanced PHP design patterns

Languages

• Spanish
• French
• Finnish

Other

• Eletrical systems on boats
• Knitting

John Goodlad, The Salt Road.

Current location: Kristiansund, Norway.

We are still moored in the guest harbour in Kristiansund. Temparatures are rising. Last weekend we hoisted the mainsail. While hoisting checked it and repaired som stiches of the seems. We also bought a life raft and now we are researching how to best mount it on the pullpit. The cradles you can buy here in Norway are rather bad and not really fitting.

Knitting wise I finished my hat. It turned out a bit smallish but still ok. But I will make another one more fitting and probably also in a different pattern. I’m also quite close to finish my sweater. I’m in the process of finnishing the shoulders. I don’t like the look of these shoulders at all. I have to figure out how I can make these parts more fitting.