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

Currently I’m working on different personal projects in parallel:

• 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 (FIRE calculator)
• Additionally I’m working on a knit designer as PWA that I can use when I design or change some patterns for my knitting projects.
• And since I’m switching my cloud stuff to a Nextcloud instance I’m programming a sync manager with TUI and CLI for Linux. It will be done in Go language, so I can learn that on the way.
• I am constantly enhancing the UI and features of lebenuntergsegeln.de and sailingpathways.com

Technology

• Go Programming Lanuage
• LLMs and dockerized RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Genertation) systems
• Dockerized Deployments on Cloud Server Systems
• Europeana Data Model (EDM) specifications in a JSON-LD representation

Languages

• Spanish
• French
• Finnish

Other

• Eletrical systems on boats
• Knitting

Martha Wells, City of Bones.

Current location: Peel Harbour, Isle of Man.

After some rainy days in Scotland we sailed further south and spent some time at anchor in Port Ellen. Later we visited the beautyful Rathlin Island were we finally saw some Puffins. Now we are on the Isle of Man but we had to use the engine all the way to Peel. There was just no wind despite the forecast. Peel on the west coast is a true gem. We fell in love it.

My Artic Starflower Toffler turned out great. Using just one needle size up was sufficient to make it fit for my size. I did change color pattern the toe tip a bit, because I wanted a round toe tip instead of the original pointy one. For this my programed Knitting Designer came in quite handy.