tomalaci

So now we have JPEG, WebP, AVIF and now JPEG XL. While it is nice to advance image encoding/decoding tech, I feel like software are yet to fully catch up past JPEG and WebP.

Fixed already. I gotta say, compared to other large-scale systems (e.g. Github), this was blazing fast response.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Remote: Yes - Sweden, EU, or international

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Python, Rust, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitOps, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, IoT, distributed systems

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: [email protected]

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Senior/Lead Platform Engineer and backend developer with 12+ years of experience building distributed systems, data platforms, IoT fleet-management platforms, and infrastructure automation.

Recent work includes platforms managing 10,000+ distributed energy devices, telecom monitoring systems processing tens of millions of data points across millions of devices and sensors, and Kubernetes/GitOps platforms spanning AWS and private data centres.

Strongest in architecture and hands-on implementation: backend services, telemetry ingestion, time-series data, developer platforms, CI/CD automation, reliability, and cost-aware infrastructure. I have led small engineering teams, established engineering practices, and improved release frequency from weekly deployments to several releases per day.

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Interested in Senior, Lead, Staff, or early-stage founding/platform engineering roles. Open to permanent employment or B2B contracts through my Swedish company, Tomalaci Systems AB.

I had quite a rollercoaster going from Windows 10 to Arch to Windows and then settling on NixOS. Main reason being able to do clean package/program setup and centralize, version-control my configuration.

My main issue with Arch was that after installing and trying stuff it left OS dirty even after package removal. This might be because I had some things built and installed through AUR (e.g. latest mpv releases that sometimes broke). Eventually I went back to latest Windows 11 build wanting easy no-bs setup.

Of course, then MS decides to shove down half baked AI integration that somehow used half my RAM and randomly slowed my CPU. I am guessing it was busy indexing, searching or security-scanning something.

Got increasingly annoyed by Microslop and tried NixOS. Bumpy ride initially but after committing for few weeks I am finally settling on it be the last OS I need.

Probably because American AI companies are on the hook for quite a lot of investment money. I think they are trying to find the magical moat to justify their valuation.

Revealing optimizations similar to these would pretty much reduce their competitive position.

Amazing news for EU! If Tisza can get supermajority after votes are counted then they can also easily reverse a lot of constitutional corruption in Hungary done by Orban.

I feel like all these hardware shortages will supercharge 2nd hand electronics and their refurbishing from repair specialists.

I usually have a script/alias cmd to automatically convert images to webp. The webp format has pretty much replaced jpg/jpeg (lacks transparency/alpha support) and png (no compression) formats for me.

There is also AVIF format which is newer and better but it needs to still mature a bit with better support/compatability.

If you are hosting images it is nice to use avif and fallback to webp.

I usually give myself 30-60 mins to solve. If I can't do it by then I will look up solutions and -study- them (also break it piece by piece and see if I can generalize it for future problems). I would look at solutions even after solving it by myself.

I find that to be the best balance between challenge and learning something new. You will mentally burn yourself out if you keep bashing against the wall for hours or more, not quite a healthy thing to do :)

Meanwhile, people who actually try to compete on this stuff have already developed rich library of specialized algorithms to leap ahead of average programmer. Well, I guess nowadays a lot of it is LLM assisted too.

Companies should quickly realize that ChatGPT can go both ways - it can turn a "script-kiddie" into fully fledged hacker if vulnerabilities continue to be this sloppy. I am fairly certain that low-skill hacker sweatshops already heavily rely on LLMs to quickly exploit trivial vulnerabilities like these.

Like it or not but I feel like account logins, PII and payment stuff will have to be handled by central big orgs. Ideally, I would like that to be a competent open-source government service. For now it is big companies like Google that can shove its SSO around in accessible manner to other sites.

AI powered business value provider frontend developers.

Looks like this runtime is written in Rust. Really does seem like Rust is rapidly swallowing all kinds of common tools and libraries. In this case a single compiled binary for multiple architectures is quite convenient for something like yt-dlp.

You need at least 5 letters for Wordle.