Pep, grid engineer & metalhead in Southern Spain
“I go from serious engineer to crazy metalhead.”
“I work in the control center of the national grid of the energy system of Southern Spain. We have hundreds and hundreds of documents… sometimes you need seven different PDF files just to fix one problem.”
“I live with my wife and dogs. We’re fairly laid-back people, and I spend a lot of time on my laptop listening to music. I’m really a music nerd.”
“I’m constantly researching new bands we’ve never heard before. If I like them, I save them to a CSV file.”
He’s been reviving a decade-old Python project that scrapes random metal bands—an antidote to repetitive streaming platforms. “I was in this radio station I mentioned before… It was called Gimme Radio. I did a couple of shows there as a DJ. When that died, I missed it.” Now, Pep uploads mixes to Mixcloud, spotlighting obscure bands that rarely see the light of day.
“I go from serious engineers to crazy metal heads.”
How he makes waves in surf
“We can only use the software we’re allowed to at work. But I saved a few PDFs with normative documents to check at home. The other day, I tested it in Surf… it gave me a really good summary of the whole thing.”
“When I first saw your first video talking about contexts, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but now with the tests I’ve done… it’s not gonna give you the regular ChatGPT—it’s specifically reading my docs.”
“I wanted to retrieve this kind of data from Metal Archives… asking about which HTML blocks to scrape… mostly stuff I didn’t remember very well, and it was really useful to have the context.”
He’s also been organizing his browser tabs into neat contexts. “I added, like, a bunch of tabs with new releases… and I said, ‘Can you give me five random new releases?’ and it worked perfectly.”
He collects the songs he discovers into a dedicated “music” desktop in Surf to arrange them for his upcoming radio show. “I go from serious engineering to crazy metal… using the same tools in a mirror.”
Until next time—catch Pep on his next show!