Hi there 👋

• 🔭 I’m currently working on
  • As a freelance Python developer, I contributed to upgrade a small streamlit- and pytubefix-powered Web app for extracting and downloading YouTube content as video or audio:
    • https://github.com/eternityready2/Youtube-to-Mp3
  • GPT-like toy NLP AI model in Pytorch, based on transformers and attention:
    • https://gist.github.com/kirisakow/7af90f26a8bc3f674058ddda71c6f518
  • Real-time object detection in webcam video stream in Google Colab, using Ultralytics YOLOv8:
    • https://gist.github.com/kirisakow/325a557d89262e8d6a4f2918917e82b4
  • Live API server with various text conversion tools, powered by Python and FastAPI:
    • https://github.com/kirisakow/api-py
  • Live API server for decoding URLs, powered by Go and Gin:
    • https://github.com/kirisakow/api-go
  • A brute-force disentangler to fix legacy character encodings like Latin-1 (Windows-1252 or ISO 8859-1), available as both a self-hosted web service and as a library (albeit not yet published on PyPI), and which supports as many encodings as Python itself:
    • https://github.com/kirisakow/whatever-disentangler
  • COVID Vaccination Certificate QR code decoder:
    • https://github.com/kirisakow/covid-certificate-qr-decoder
  • A video walkthrough of two BASH school labs, recorded for my co-eds during the lockdown (in French):
    • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9fSl95JfzxZ2cGihVebuWvYczsUSpsIj
  • A few tools to work with URLs (url_clean, url_extract, url_deref, url_unescape), written in BASH, Go, and Python:
    • https://github.com/kirisakow/url_tools
  • Excel Art: replicate any image as a spreadsheet, by colouring each cell in the color of the corresponding pixel:
    • https://gitlab.com/kirisakow/excel_art
  • Telegram bots:
    • https://github.com/kirisakow/telegram_bots
  • Morse decoder & encoder:
    • https://github.com/kirisakow/morse-decoder-encoder
  • A few JavaScript userscripts for the Firefox add-on Greasemonkey:
    • A script to declutter any webpage by telling which elements you want to leave visible:
      • https://gist.github.com/kirisakow/82957128a78d1cd67432b0971621914d
    • A script for hotmixradio.com that forces an update of the currently played song's info:
      • https://gist.github.com/kirisakow/62f6fd669cf52a6fe174717ae2cbca2f
  • Other gists:
    • https://gist.github.com/kirisakow
• 🌱 I’m currently learning
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• 👯 I’m looking to collaborate on
  • a Django project
  • a machine learning project
• 🤔 I’m looking for help with
  • Making importable libraries for Python. The official documentation is somewhat elusive to me.
• 💬 Ask me about
  • I've put together (yet another) comprehensive curated list of software engineering best practices and concepts such as clean code, simple design, software craftsmanship, YAGNI, KISS, SOLID, TDD, design patterns, and others:
    • https://gitlab.com/kirisakow/clean-code-software-craftsmanship-best-practices
• 📫 How to reach me:
  • kirix . isakov gmail com
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