ben_w

joined 12/12/2016, 5:42 PMhas 27,247 karma

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 τσι ΞΊΞ±ΞΉ Ρνα σανδυιχ παρακαλορ 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›šα›–αš¨αš±αšΎα›–α›žα›¬αš¦α›–α›¬αš¨α›šα›ˆαšΊαš¨α›’α›–α›α›¬αš¨α›Šα›¬αš¨α›¬αš²α›α›žα›¬αš²αš¨αšΎα›¬αš’αšΎα›žα›–αš±α›Šα›αš¨αšΎα›žα›¬αš¦α›–α›—α›¬αšΉαšΊα›–αšΎα›¬αš¦α›–αšΉα›α›¬αš¨α›ˆα›ˆα›–αš¨αš±α›¬α›αšΎα›¬αš¦α›–α›¬αšΊα›Ÿα›’α›’α›α›α›¬α›Ÿαš±α›¬α›šα›Ÿαš±α›žα›¬α›Ÿαš α›¬αš¦α›–α›¬αš±α›α›œα›Šα›¬α›’αš’α›α›¬α›žα›ŸαšΎα›α›¬αš¨α›Šαš²α›¬α›—α›–α›¬αš¨αšΎαšΉα›αš¦α›α›œα›¬αš¨α›’α›Ÿαš’α›α›¬αš¦α›–α›¬α›Ÿα›šα›žα›¬αšΎα›Ÿαš±α›Šα›–α›¬α›šαš¨α›œαš’αš¨αš·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

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