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Also led an engineering team at a startup that is seeing some good growth, but left it at the end of the year after some internal drama.
Left $150k software engineering job (well got fired for making video called "9 Ways to cope with having a boring 9-5 job" which somebody found and sent to HR) to make videos about stuff I think is interesting ( https://www.youtube.com/c/JDiculous1 https://www.facebook.com/HonestLogic ), with a slant towards addressing wage slavery, basic income, student loans, capitalism, etc. Still in the early stages, but I'll be h…
Another project is funktion (https://github.com/Hexworks/funktion) which is basically a wrapper for some of Clojure's nicesities (persistent data structures, STM, Refs).
I started to grow an umbrella "company" for my projects: Hexworks (https://github.com/Hexworks) and another one with a friend: AppCraft (https://github.com/AppCraft-Projects).
Almost everything I do is open source and is on GitHub.
I also started my own blog (http://the-cogitator.com/) and its Medium counterpart (https://medium.com/@addamsson).
There is some other stuff which I did not mention here, these are the things I focus on.
The `predeclared' command finds identifiers that shadow Go's built-in identifiers (make, copy, error, etc.). This type of shadowing results in cognitive overhead when reading code or can lead to unexpected bugs.
https://github.com/nishanths/predeclared
The `dedupimport' command fixes duplicate named import declarations in Go source files; i.e. imports that have the same import path but different import names [2].
I quit what many would consider a successfull job in programming and had a sabbatical year. Moved to a smaller town and down sized everything in spending to the point where I pay $600 per month for housing, food and bills, so living of my savings haven't been an issue at all. I have focused on things like reading (read +40 books in 2017, up from 1-2 per year), wood working, sketching, running and skiing. To keep up m…
Built with postgres+postGIS and node.js. Around 400Gb dataset, maps generate in around a second.
A lot of time spent on processing data quickly, and on data formats.
Also did a related system that looks up any address in the UK via postcode or keyword, with sub-second response.
In progress, a blockchain simulator in node.js, to test out some scaling ideas...
Also spent time convincing people to teach multiplication in a better way : quantblog.wordpress.com & gridmaths.com ... and about why Bitcoin does need a larger block.
Looking to more consulting work in 2018 working on blockchain tech.
I built a system that takes map data for whole UK topography and produces maps in html/svg, pdf/jpg .. and autocad DXF. Built with postgres+postGIS and node.js. Around 400Gb dataset, maps generate in around a second. A lot of time spent on processing data quickly, and on data formats. Also did a related system that looks up any address in the UK via postcode or keyword, with sub-second response. In progress, a blockc…
With a team of 3 including myself, the only professional software developer, we have launched and run a solar radiation and PV power forecasting/observation API (solcast.com.au) that can provide solar radiation and PV power forecasts world wide that update every 10-30 minutes based on satellite coverage.
For the past 10 months this API has been freely accessible whilst we validated our approach and expanded to cover the globe. After great feedback from users, we are now planning a big update to make it even easier to use and to integrate live PV output data into forecasting itself.
The change to work on something that contributes a large net positively to society’s around the world (making solar based electricity generation more financially attractive to operators/home owners a like all over the world) has been hugely rewarding and look forward to the growth of solar power generation in 2018.