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SEEKING WORK | Valencia, Spain | Remote only Senior software engineer and independent consultant (15+ yrs), currently based in Valencia, Spain (CET). I do primarily backend work in…

SEEKING WORK | Valencia, Spain | Remote only Senior software engineer and independent consultant (15+ yrs), currently based in Valencia, Spain (CET). I do primarily backend work in…

SEEKING WORK | Valencia, Spain | Remote only Senior software engineer and independent consultant (15+ yrs), currently based in Valencia, Spain (CET). I do primarily backend work in…

SEEKING WORK | Valencia, Spain | Remote only Senior software engineer and independent consultant (15+ yrs), currently based in Valencia, Spain (CET). I do primarily backend work in…

> Haven't seen that in many other cities. Really? In my limited experience in Europe I've often seen attendance to museums are free. When we were in Ireland and Scotland, most muse…

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Senior software engineer and independent consultant (15+ yrs), currently based in Valencia, Spain (CET). I do primarily backend work in Python (Django/FastAPI/Flask) and PHP (Larav…

Senior software engineer and independent consultant (15+ yrs), currently based in Valencia, Spain (CET). I do primarily backend work in Python (Django/FastAPI/Flask) and PHP (Larav…

Senior software engineer and independent consultant (15+ yrs), currently based in Valencia, Spain (CET). I do primarily backend work in Python (Django/FastAPI/Flask) and PHP (Larav…

Location: Valencia, Spain (CET) Remote: Yes (US & EU; daily 4-hour overlap with US business hours) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (Django, Pydantic/FastAPI, LangChain…

I haven't done exhaustive testing of all top-performing models on the HF Embedding Leaderboard ( https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard ) but I have tested a number of them…

IMO the PyTorch getting started tutorials are really good ( https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/basics/intro.html ). A classifier for handwritten digits in the MNIST dataset is …

Mine was $750 :(

Herculaneum was one of the highlights of my trip to Italy with the wife. I didn't realize the scope of just how much ash and soil had to be removed for excavation. It was dozens of…

I use iTerm in visor mode, so ctrl-~ (tilde) shows my terminal tabs and changes focus to them. Pushing it again hides them and returns focus to the previous app.

I'll gladly take cookie banners to have the ability to expect a company to nuke any data they've collected about me.

I agree with your generalization now that I give it some thought. Even for topics I have little interest in or know little of, creative solutions are enthralling. Your latter asses…

Game developers getting creative due to hardware limitations is a topic I will never grow sick of. Historical gamedev journalism has grown much in recent years, with outlets like N…

Dan Olson is FAR more eloquent than I will ever be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYeoZaoWrA&t=9s

I have issues with memory/retainment due to a traumatic brain injury from a car accident in high school, and am incredibly dependent on using Obsidian as sort of a "second brain." …

It's really surprising how awful the official Python docs are, considering how much the language has grown of late. If I need to reference core Python docs these days, I almost alw…

Apologies, I missed this when initially posted and regret it. An illuminating and touching read which puts the book into context. Reading about her affliction brought me to tears a…

Yeah, that is my expectation about its future as well. I really enjoyed using Fig for clear CLI introspection for many of my common workflows. I am fully expecting that I'll have t…

Cannot recommend Piranesi by Susanna Clarke enough. A lovely read and could be devoured in an entire day if you're willing and able.

Highly recommend his History of Mathematics lectures on YouTube, if you are interested in that sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW8Cy6WrO94&list=PL55C7C8378...