portugueasey

This extra-bright-everything-on-HDR-screens crap makes me navigate away from sites every time.

Immediate irritation and if I could setup an adblock rule to stop it somehow, I would.

The worst cases give me the starting pangs of a headache, and make me adjust my display to account for it.

Can we somehow make it a rule that a website has to ask if they can blind me first?

So much so that the controversy over the use of “insha’Allah” by non-Muslims was missed by me, Portuguese has “oxalá”, and I could not understand the problem. It’s funny how many words we use in Portuguese and Spanish that have their origin in the Moorish time.

I’m disappointed in the lack of a Trigger Happy TV skit, but I’ll let it slide for reminding everyone that repairable laptops exist, and are still great

I’m living in an R&R desert myself, with some nice big abandoned shops, and have always wondered about the economics of building something. It amazes me how expensive a bowling alley actually is. Fantastic work in getting your costs way down, and doing something so genuinely useful for a wider audience. Hopefully other small bowling alleys will find this and try it out

I don’t even have it on GitHub yet, and I’ve been refining it little by little. Targeting at age 10, late primary school. It doesn’t go deep diving, it’s a light touch, and I think it needs more explanation.

This is extremely impressive, something I’ve always wanted to create locally. I’m in the UK so setup, registration, costs etc are very different but what’s the ballpark cost? We have a real lack of maker spaces.

I have a few projects on the run right now

Writing a sci-fi book, and it’s finally fleshed out to a point that it’s slightly readable, though more like a script. As this is all in markdown in one folder, with some text files as lists, I started writing a simple web project to keep track of it all.

Created a website for local community information, services, etc. Something that removes the reliance upon social media for this. It’s static, making hosting cheap, and in most cases free as it can run on vercel with contentful for blogs and github to store it. I’m sure there’s another project like it, but it’s always good to practice making something myself.

I was asked to show something for STEM week at my daughter’s school. Started a project to demonstrate AÍ to children. Uses very small training data set, you can write the beginning of a one sentence story, it can keep track of a configurable number of tokens, generates a given number of them. Allows taking steps through the process. This is the only one I’m vibe coding because I’m not entirely sure on how to implement it, plus I’ve added multiple models.

Have been working on a girlguiding page specifically for the division my wife volunteers with, as they relied upon the older district site that’s woefully lacking. Stuck waiting for approval.

  Location: London, UK  
  Remote: Preferred  
  Willing to relocate: Yes  
  Technologies: C#, C++, Python,
    Typescript, SQL, Powershell,
    Plotly, Blazor, Azure,
    Terraform  
  Résumé/CV:
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipegdesousa  
  Email:
    filipe _at_ desousa _dot_ com _dot_ pt

Hello!

I’ve spent 11 years at a bank and two years at a pensions firm. Both places don’t particularly appreciate radical changes or rapid movement.

While at the bank, I helped adopt Python for non-critical tasks and pushed for the production use of scripts for critical systems. My time was mostly spent writing C++, debugging obscure issues, and migrating software to 64-bit and C++11.

At my current role, I’m working on a Blazor site for pension scheme trustees to view aggregate member data and scheme health information.

I’d appreciate a role that has me learning something new, doesn’t try to pigeonhole me once I find a speciality, and prioritises small teams with some degree of autonomy.

I’ve always assumed it’s either just something my corporate laptops like to do (my older HP would often switch itself back on even when you told it to shut down, forgetting about any updates), or that I had just clicked the wrong button.

Well, guess that’s my mentally stability so slightly restored!