European software engineer.
Experience mainly with Swift, ObjC, and Java; usual smattering of experience in other languages (IDL, REALbasic [back when it was still called that], Python, PHP, JavaScript, etc.)
Human language knowledge:
- English: native
- German: certified CEFR level B1 (examination board: telc), which means I can do normal daily things without having to reach for a translator, but surprises still confound me. I understand more than I can speak, my grammar is still terrible.
- Esperanto/Greek/Dutch/Spanish: self-taught and probably A1 or less, so while I can type Ρνα ΟΟΞΉ ΞΊΞ±ΞΉ Ρνα ΟΞ±Ξ½Ξ΄Ο ΞΉΟ ΟΞ±ΟΞ±ΞΊΞ±Ξ»ΞΏΟ without reaching for Google Translate, if I use GT to check my work I find I spelled "tea" and "please" wrong, and when I asked for that in Athens the person behind the counter just corrected me in English.
- Futhark (just the script, not ancient Icelandic)α¬ ααα¨α±αΎααα¬α¦αα¬α¨αααΊα¨αααα¬α¨αα¬α¨α¬α²ααα¬α²α¨αΎα¬α’αΎααα±ααα¨αΎαα¬α¦ααα¬αΉαΊααΎα¬α¦ααΉαα¬α¨αααα¨α±α¬ααΎα¬α¦αα¬αΊαααααα¬αα±α¬ααα±αα¬αα α¬α¦αα¬α±αααα¬αα’αα¬αααΎαα¬α¨αα²α¬ααα¬α¨αΎαΉαα¦ααα¬α¨ααα’αα¬α¦αα¬αααα¬αΎαα±ααα¬αα¨αα’α¨α·α
Currently:
- In 2024 I stopped working though Brilliant.org courses, not because I've done all of them, but because I've Peter-Principled myself on it: I've done harder and harder courses until I exceeded my competence, which was a lot of stuff, but not the most advanced calculus or group theory stuff: https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/03/11-12.00.16.html
I tried looking at it more recently to see if it was worth re-subscribing, but it seems like the new material is all focussed on k-11 pupils rather than adult learners pushing themselves further, so I suspect I won't go back.
- Still trying to finish editing a SciFi novel: got stuck at 90%, the final 10% is in a rewrite loop where I'm never happy with what I produce
- Looking for work; my main experience is as a senior iPhone app developer, but I am open to be a noob again in some other aspect of software development. Or even non-software, given what LLMs can do these days.
- LLM coding is each of U+1F631 and U+1F92F and yet also sometimes U+1F4A9, I do have experience of code review and can deal with the latter regardless of whether it comes from humans or machines.
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https://kitsunesoftware.com has all the links to my other stuff