harlanji

  Location: Unknown
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, SQLite, Qwen 27B + Local Harness + RAG tech, Django. RasPi; self-hosting/sovereign operations in general. Historically Java, Javascript, PostgreSQL, Clojure, PHP, Boostrap in no particular order.
  Résumé/CV: Just menial labor since 2018, food industry related. B.S. Computer Science in 2011, open source maintainer since around 2000.
  Email: [email protected]

I'm basically an artist but I can work well on teams or solo and need some cash. I'm mainly looking for short term gigs up to a few months at a time. I have plenty of work samples to share but haven't yet been able to design a portfolio that makes my case. It's across the board and literally 100s, I work better by curating a set based on whatever the opportunity is (I almost always meet my clients IRL and we have a great initial chat at some event, I haven't figured out how to replicate that online). Thanks for reading.

Lately whenever I take a walk down a certain suburban street there's a security patrol vehicle and often I feel they're paying too much attention to me. Driving slow, flip light bar on. It's very disturbing. Not the first time it's happened, another private security company has seemed to be too interested in me. In each case I've resorted to making obscene gestures to them because it disturbs my peace. It's like a counter punch to a punch, but most would not see it that way. They're just doing their job, or a little more in the case of watching me on a public street. But when it becomes an expected part of a daily routine, it's too much.

No doubt erratic behavior gets me logged by that security team, if not escalated to local police, who may come to check up on me themselves later. Nobody knows what's happening with this footage. What their putting a wrapper in their pocket may look like in low res video.

Mass surveillance thru cameras and movement logging isn't so active but I 100% understand people who take action against the cameras. It's just as in a person's face every single day, in more and more places, and you don't know who is on the other end or what they're looking for or what you are doing may appear as.

Chunks can only be as large as the embedding model’s token limit, about 512-1024 tokens usually. Anything longer gets truncated.

Natural language processing could expanded references, but it starts to get tricky. Do you use Graph RAG, embed another version of the chunk that is distinct from the full text version, etc.. Another layer of processing and data to keep in sync if the source dan be updated.

Using ad blockers is of poor character anyway. That's their chosen business model and if we don't accept their terms then we don't need to use their service.

I am happy to pay for an Ad Free experience on services that offer it. We should all send letters to companies who we want to pay to give us an ad free experience. "I don't want to pay" is an indefensible position because everything is an energy exchange. "There is no free lunch." If we don't want to pay with money then we can pay with attention to ads, and hacking the display to take without giving in return is corrupt.

  Location: Sacramento/SF/Silicon Valley
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, Wagtail/Django, SQL, ChromaDB/RAG Ingest. Previously 5+ ecosystems: PHP, Java, Node, Clojure, Flash/Flex. C-based undergrad program at a  highly ranked state school, comfortable at system level.
  Resume: 8+ years solo building + various food industry. Prior: Senior Software Engineer + Tech Lead and Bachelor of Sci. in Comp. Sci. (Sw Eng + Prog Langs focus). E-Commerce and Web Agency Developer prior to undergrad.
  Email: [email protected]

I'd like to connect for contract work, 10-40+ hours per week. I regularly build tech demos for whatever I'm learning as development practice. I've probably done something similar to what you need, if you need backend or data engineer or CI/dev automation help. I've worn so many hats throughout my decades long career. I can start at a low intro rate for 90 days, and prefer to build long term relationships via increasingly important and urgent projects.

I can travel on site as needed and work from a co-working space daily. I've lived in the Bay Area for over a decade since after college, familiar with and can easily commute the peninsula from San Jose to San Francisco. Thanks.

Barely longer than a Tweet. Low effort slop. /half sarcasm.

I record 20-40 minutes of "uneditied, one take no fake" Podcast/Vlog per day and have been using AI to generate the cover image + video description and sometimes title for YouTube lately. Also somewhat low effort, I admit. I have project ideas to upcycle the raw takes. (iSpooge Daily on YouTube, support links on channel page).

My likes and views are consistently up since using Gen AI for said tasks. It's extremely niche, just yapping about existence and ideas as a homeless unemployed software engineer in Christ on daily walks. Some of the most authentic stuff online, in my opinion, criminally underrated. The AI art covers and generated metadata are better than I could do even given unlimited time + resources.

  Location: Sacramento, CA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: After a year
  Tech: Python, Wagtail/Django, SQL, ChromaDB + LangChain. Historically 5+ ecosystems: PHP, Java, Node, Clojure, Flash/Flex in no particular order. C-based program in school, comfortable at system level.
  Resume: 8+ years solo building + various food industry. Prior: Senior Software Engineer + Tech Lead and B. Sci. Comp. Sci. degree. E-Commerce and Web Agency Developer prior to college.
  Email: [email protected]

I'd like to land contract work, 10-40+ hours per week. I currently spend about 100 hours a week in my office building tech demos and seeking my first consulting/contract client in my new practice. I've probably done something similar to what you need, if you need backend or data engineer or CI/dev automation projects done. I'm not exactly a generalist but I've worn so many hats. I can start at a low intro rate for 90 days, I picture building long term relationships with trust established via increasingly important and urgent projects.

I can travel on site as needed and work from my office normally. I've lived in the Bay Area for over a decade since college and am familiar with the lay of the land and culture and everything, happy to visit. Thanks.

Exchange / "chat" requests like with a human contractor feels like the optimal bandwidth. Imagine having a report whose work nobody in the org understands or owns? Can't scale into maintenance or support mode.

I might be open to some agent-like behavior, access to a git repo and ticket system. Probably not my whole OS, any more than I'd give to a drunk schitzo I met on the Internet.

I see the appeal to what people have going on. But I've been using LLMs for going on a year, I was slow to adopt and wait-and-see because I didn't need it at the time (deep dive, learning python Ecosystem). I'm glad I stayed the course. I can get great results prompting these things and edit the results with care.

No more burnout than a subordinate working for hire in this mode. Things remain manageable, and I can do all the higher level Dev/Eng/Product work that drives the Coding. Which is a good new challenge to me, never got to go so high up the food chain with so much focus.

I feel like an opt-in model built on AGPL code should output AGPL code.

I'd put my work into that. Not the only option just an example.

Every great project takes time to build. It's possible.

That's how I pictured it, users scan all the bar codes they have access to and it builds similarity profiles.

I pictured scanning all my CS books for example, and I'd probably end up in a group with everyone from my class at school who did the same, for example.

Location: Sacramento, CA (1hr North) / Bay Area

Remote: Preferred initially.

On-site: Can travel to Sac / Bay Area weekly, fly within US monthly.

Willing to relocate: Yes, within NorCal, after probation.

Technologies: Python web, Javascript vanilla, JVM 9-era, SQL postgres + sqlite, Linux, Docker, Redis, Nginx, RTMP.

Specialties: CI, Protocols/Formats, Databases, Full Stack Web, Streaming Video.

Adjacent Skills: writing, speaking (podcaster), e-commerce platforms, small biz stuff, food service business.

Education: B.S. Computer Science, U. MN.. Focus: Software Engineering (dev over time).

Résumé/CV: Empty. Last 7 years are restaurant/grocery/temp. If you need it I can make one.

Email: [email protected]

I've been hacking on my vision and the money out here just isn't enough so I want limited duration tech work, 40hr+ time for a short period, or like half time on an ongoing basis. I could be fractional CTO, have been offered a Director position.

Thanks for reading.

Yes, please.

I only post in Freelancer but sometimes I'm OPEN TO GOLDEN HANDCUFFS / REALLY REALLY GOOD W-2 :).

Underemployed since 2017, working menial jobs and homeless since mid-'18, not even trying to get a tech job because I can't present myself as middle class.

I'm coping by building a system to solve homelessness in general which I've concluded is impossible by getting a menial job and saving ("just get 2?" Logistics, I have answers for everything).

I'm guessing someone will eventually get me some freelance/contract work and that's how my situation will be resolved ($10k over a month would do). Just building online brands with innovative techniques and sharing results until that day. Yeehaw.

SEEKING WORK, NorCal, Remote OK

Starting an agency and am looking for initial clients. Good pricing, like minimum wage ($16.50/hr) unless you insist upon paying more. No specific niche yet, just getting the engine started up.

Dev Skills: Python Web, Javascript UI + Node, Analytics, Data Engineering, CMS like Django, Strong SQL, Strong Linux+Bash/DevOps, D3 + geo/map stuff.

Available 3 full days/wk Mo-We + evenings, Pacific Time, Early Riser. Co-working desk, private office upgrade available. Thanks.

Email: [email protected]