dani b
email [email protected] but remove all the numbers first please.
i am in love with music and the sun and petrichor and complex systems and strange things and cute things.
this is a pink and green website because ordinary “professional” personal websites are so boring, don’t you think?
i have done more sensible work (more on the back-end) at itv, itv news, skype in the classroom (now replaced with something worse), vinspired, (the now-sadly-defunct) composed (a classical music streaming app), v&a museum [humans.txt], the lion’s share of a react native app called realist, and a bunch of other, less attractive things.
i am currently a software developer at lucanet making a better spreadsheet (for financial planning). don’t make the mistake of thinking this sounds boring! i like making tools for professionals.
i was previously a senior engineer at monzo not coincentally also working on (internal) tools for professionals, and before that made by many and a telecoms company in a chicken shed, somewhere in gloucestershire.
i’m up for anything really. i’m a big fan of functional languages and i can write haskell to a reasonably convincing level. i love learning and getting stuck into new things in general. i like writing tooling and making things run conveniently, neatly, and more-correctly. i’ve also written typescript, go, ruby, python, c, c++, vba, php, bash scripts, makefiles, crbasic, endless configuration files, and probably some other stuff too.
my position on LLMs is: conflicted. they’re getting very useful for writing software (for a long time they were only a bit useful sometimes, and often frustrating). i don’t like the energy usage. i hate what the technology and the companies behind it are doing to creative pursuits (handful of genuinely creative uses notwithstanding). on balance i would rather the technology go away, but it’s not going to, so given that and that i still work in software (and companies love it!), i’m trying to make the best of it. this is probably not the morally perfect position, but what am i to do.
i rather like the game of königsrufen and this is the variation of the rules i learned and compiled.
i wrote end-of-year album lists for 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. i might still write one for 2020 but it seems a bit late now so i might do a two-year one end of this year.