Screw Elon Musk and the horse he rode in on. There is
no way I'm going to give that character my content or
collaborate in anything he owns or has a stake in.
Still looking for an alternative.
Founder of modularcompany.com , we do Technical Due Diligence for investors (early stage, VC, PE), vendors and acquirers in Europe and the Near East.
Partner at Tablomonto.com. If you have an interesting early stage startup in The Netherlands I would like to hear from you.
Founder of camarades.com / ww.com, creator of the first 'streaming webcam software'.
Small time angel investor, > 20 investments to date, > 20K < 100K
Happy to report that now three of those have exited with nice returns.
My email is jacques@modularcompany.com, phone + 31 6 30 366 241, Netherlands
Feel free to contact me anytime, except for large money transfers from African countries or such.
And please don't even think of approaching me to get your stuff posted or upvoted, if you want something posted do it yourself, if you want stuff to be upvoted post interesting stuff!
If you comment and I'm not responding to you it may well be that you are filtered out from my view.
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: self taught with apps and podcasts including Duolingo, Clozemaster, Babbel (both their apps and podcasts), EasyGerman, Coffee Break German etc., non-certified CEFR level B1 from three online placement tests where I've scored B1/B1/B2.1 (which matches my self-estimate because I can do normal daily things without having to reach for a translator, but surprises still confound me).
- Esperanto/Greek/Dutch/Spanish: also self-taught, but probably A1 or less, so while I can type e?a ts? ?a? e?a sa?d??? pa?a?a??? 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.
- Arabic: an attempt was made, to help pass time during the pandemic. I recommend you don't waste time trying to use Duolingo for learning this language.
- Have recently 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 advanced calculus or group theory: https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/03/11-12.00.16.html
- 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
- Working as a full-time iPhone app developer in Berlin
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https://kitsunesoftware.com has all the links to my other stuff
1. Social operating system for the Web, to liberate people from Big Tech and let them choose where to host their own community:
https://qbix.com/platform
2. Economic system for the Web, to monetize open source, journalism and other digital content without ads:
https://qbix.com/token
3. Economic and governance system for the real world, leveraging blockchains to enable local community currencies, universal basic income and democratic governance decision making on-chain:
https://intercoin.org
I have been working since 2011 on liberating people from Big Tech, and move digital society from Feudalism to a Free Market. A lot of the above is working, documented, and in some cases has attracted millions of people in 95+ countries, and translated into 15 languages. Feel free to reach out and join.
I work with data. When I started it was called data analysis. Then I aparantly became a "data miner", followed by "data scientist", followed by anything more complicated than a t-test getting labelled as AI. (I don't actually do AI)
It would be nice if the industry didn't have a marketing buzz-word identity crisis every few years.
In 2005 I got the startup bug and founded a video effects software company. Later built React Studio (https://reactstudio.com) and Vidpresso (YC W14, acquired by Facebook in 2018). Now engineering video stuff at Daily.co (YC W16).
