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: Molde, Norway.

We have started the season. On our first sail to Bud, we encountered a 2–3 metre leftover swell. This meant that we had to give the notorious Hustadvika a wide berth. When waves from a depth of 100 metres hit the 10-metre shoreline, they create some really frightening mountains of water.
The short journey from Bud to Molde was pleasant. Although it was cold and windy, we could actually sail for an hour in the fjord.

I finished knitting my first jumper and it turned out quite well. If I have time, I will add it to my projects on Ravelry. I also started a new hat with a matching pattern for a Dale of Norway jumper. However, my gauge did not match the pattern. In the end, I basically had to design the hat again.