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

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time – The Fires of Heaven.

Current location: Milford Haven, Wales, UK

From Dublin, we will sail to Rosslare Harbour, located at the south-eastern tip of Ireland, via an overnight stopover in Arklow. On the way, we miscalculated the wind, and during the final hours, we encountered a challenging wind-against-tide situation with short, steep waves and strong winds. Our speed dropped to 2 knots with every pounding in the waves. It was excruciatingly slow. However, we made it to the anchorage near Rosslare Harbour just before sunset.
The next morning, we set sail for Milford Haven in Wales. The Celtic Sea greeted us with steep waves, but with a broad reaching wind, we surfed down the waves to our destination. In Milford Haven, we waited for the lock to open and then entered the harbour.

That was two weeks ago. Since then, we have been waiting for a weather window of at least two days to round Land’s End. But autumn has begun, and there are constantly rolling Atlantic depressions over southern England and the Channel. We have to wait…