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 ion 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 langauge, 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

SenLinYu, Manacled 2.

Current location: Wick, Scotland.

We liked Shetland a lot and would have stayed longer but we had some time pressure to move on. Some friends will me met in Inverness. So we pushed on to the Orkney Islands. The Orkneys are difficult to sail in. They are heavily influenced by the tides and these can create really dangerous situations especially when the current flows agains ocean swell or wind direction. In the Lashy sound we got us in a scary situation because of this and we had to sail for 10 minutes through huge and confused standing waves but with a 4-5 knots flowing flood behind us pushing further. And this was just the result of this current flowing against a small – around 0.5m – ocean swell. So timing is essential.
But when we left the Orkneys to the Scottish mainland we had a really pleasant sail in 12 knot of wind from starboard and a light tide – 0.5-1 kn – that pushed us southwards. But although it is June the it it still cold (around 10°C) and we still sail with three layers.

From the Shetland whool I bought I made a nice beanie in a Shetlandic/Fair Isle pattern and I have to wear it even it is June. We still have some Rauma Finull leftovers in our stash, so I make now a Varde Lue hat for Antje.