This is a recap of my activities in Q2 2024.
There were some challenging client works. Also, I attended a lot of cultural/academic events. It was a very stimulating period!
Client works
- Amimoto/Shifter from DigitalCube 🇯🇵
- Updating AWS Lambda functions with TypeScript
- Chatbot project using AWS Bedrock (AI)
- Bug fix, runtime update, legacy code migration, etc
- minutiae iOS app and related business scripts 🇺🇸
- Performance tuning involving RealtimeDatabase, Firestore, CloudFunction, and iOS codes.
Optimized a lot of places in the entire system, and the slow behavior of the app became much faster (e.g. minus 20 seconds) as a result! Used some Swift concurrency techniques too. - Updated internal tools with Python, Docker Compose, and NextJS.
Almost web full-stack work. Using mono-repo style code organization now. - Performance analysis with pandas/numpy/matplotlib
- Performance tuning involving RealtimeDatabase, Firestore, CloudFunction, and iOS codes.
- Script for a business tool 🇳🇱
- Writing scripts for a business tool in TypeScript with Jest testing
OSS contribution
- Unison UI Core (Elm)
Elm is always a nice language to write!
Back office
- Updated my profile picture after 4 years!
Tech events
- C3 Fest, 14-15.06
- AdvancedJS, 12.06
- Open Day Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Lab42 (UvA), 07.06
- Amsterdam JS Meetup, 02.05
- AdvancedJS, 01.05
- TSL Tech Talks, 11.04
- Analytics Engineering Meetup, 10.04
Culture
Lectures (mostly at SPUI25)
I went to a lot of lectures in the recent months.
- Infrastructures of Displacement & Racialised Boundaries, 18.06
- From The Noordzeekanaal to the ‘weesperstraatknip’ - Planning for the Future, 18.06
- European Elections Outcome and the Future of European Politics, 11.06
- Summer of Algorithmic Love, 05.06
- Nativist and Islamist Radicalism in Europe, 31.05
- EU Food Governance after the Farmers’ Protests, 28.05
- Stories of genocide survivors in graphic novels - Witnesses of Violence, 28.05
- Resisting Data Colonialism: A Practical Intervention, 23.05
- The European Parliament Elections 2024, 22.05
- CIA LECTURE: DO WE NEED A EUROPEAN ARMY? A PANEL DISCUSSION ON EU SECURITY AND A COMMON EU MILITARY, CREA, 06.05
- Rising AI and the Concentration of Corporate Power, 22.04
- Academic Freedom in a Polarized Age, 19.04
- European Populism and the Looming European Parliamentary Elections, 16.04
- 万博と建築, Genron, 11.04
Art
- Marina Abramovic, Wilhelm Sasnal, Stedelijk Museum, 09.06
- WORK WORK WORK - A gallery for performance art, Frascati, 02.06
- Rijksakademie Open Studios 2024, 02.06
- Mauritshuis, 27.05
- Amsterdam Stadsarchief (City archive), 25.05
- Anton Corbijn – MOØDe, Cobra museum, 20.04
Music
- Gumbo Night, De Nieuwe Anita, 21.06
- Jazz in Duketown, Den Bosch, 19.05
- Jazz: 12 hours of Jazz - Spring Edition, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, 20.04
- Playing 🎺!
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Thank you for reading. I wish all of you a great Q3!