- Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  - Remote: Yes
  - Willing to relocate: No
  - Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQLite, PostgreSQL, SPARQL, HTML/CSS, Tailwind, Git, Node.js, Bun, Deno, React, 
    Astro, HTMX, Hono, Cloudflare, Vercel, MCP, AI
  - Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/4cXoofS
  - Email: nico.baier@gmail.com
  - Github: https://github.com/nbbaier
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicobaier
  - Website: https://nicobaier.com

I'm a former academic researcher (in linguistics) turned self-taught software engineer who'd like to transition into professional software development. I'm experienced across the stack using Javascript/TypeScript, Python, and SQL with platforms like Cloudflare and Val Town. I bring a research-driven approach from my Ph.D. in linguistics. I'm especially interested in working on AI tooling and integrations.

Would you be willing to open source the code for this site

I'd like to be able to filter by What Are you Working On posts

I fear it would quickly turn into slop :(

How so? I just meant being able to filter data down to comments on a specific what are you working on post

  - Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  - Remote: Yes
  - Willing to relocate: No
  - Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQLite, PostgreSQL, SPARQL, HTML/CSS, Tailwind, Git, Node.js, Bun, Deno, React, 
    Astro, HTMX, Hono, Cloudflare, Vercel, MCP, AI
  - Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/4cXoofS
  - Email: nico.baier@gmail.com
  - Github: https://github.com/nbbaier
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicobaier
  - Website: https://nicobaier.com

I'm a former academic researcher (in linguistics) turned self-taught software engineer who'd like to transition into professional software development. I'm experienced across the stack using Javascript/TypeScript, Python, and SQL with platforms like Cloudflare and Val Town. I bring a research-driven approach from my Ph.D. in linguistics. I'm especially interested in working on AI tooling and integrations.

Do you have this up in a repo?

THIS would incredible

Have you seen usage (https://github.com/jdx/usage)? It seems similar.

Cool! This reminds of https://val.town

Oh, interesting! Thanks for that link, I hadn't managed to come across that when I was looking for existing alternatives.

I'm not sure I would have actually started building this if I knew that was an option. Hopefully their existence is telling me "there's a market, go for it" and not "there's already a better alternative, don't do it", heh. Though their pricing tiers really tells me I need to optimize my sandboxing. I don't think I can match those request limits at those prices just from the CPU cost of my per-request sandboxing overhead.

I actually think there's a lot of room in this space for other tools!

My first thought too!

Is this code open source?

I'd love to know more about this project and follow along! I've also had an itch of having a personal library app that's better than libib

Sure, I’d love to keep you in the loop. Send a message to the email on my profile and I’ll let you know once I have something ready for testing :)