About Me (Verbose)
My name is Nicholas Omer Chiasson. Here and there I may go by Nick, Nicky C, Nicky Bicky, Sticholas, Bix, or even Baby Calves, among other aliases.
Professionally, I build, evolve, and maintain microservices in a complex web API platform striving to enrich the online experience of the games industry.
Outside of work, the projects I tend to work on admittedly produce next to no practical value aside from providing me with excuses to continue learning and developing my skills.
You might say I love to work on pointless projects, but the truth is that the only ideas I ever come up with that spark my passion simply are not million dollar ideas. If I get an idea that interests me, I run with it. Most of the time, it's a dumb idea.
In spite of that, I try to embrace the philosophy that it's better to embark on a journey with no prize at the end than to do nothing at all.
In the end, I like to keep things light hearted, as you can perhaps tell by my overly verbose and casual writing style for which I have ignored advice suggesting against publishing on the open internet for all to bear witness to. Above all, I am seeking chances to grow and build.
🏴 I had a problem with the English language. So I changed it.
🍎 I wrote a library for applying set theory on IP ranges.
🔔 I wanted to get scheduled push notifications about when to raise and lower my new standing desk so I built a fun command line reminders app.
🌐 I'm working on a little blog for my personal website, not that I actually regularly write blog posts. I just had a cheeky idea for the backend.
Frankly, I don't have much more to boast about. Come back later and maybe I will.
I work with these. Some more than others. Java is on the tail of the list for a reason.
🦀 Amateur as I am, I am very enthusiastic about the Rust programming language.
I am trying to build up my skills with various rust frameworks such as Bevy for game development as well as Actix and Yew for web.
🐍 I really enjoy Python for writing short programs very quickly.
Though I used python extensively in school, I have never used it professionally.
💻 I use VSCodium when I'm feeling lazy (most of the time lol), and Alacritty, Zellij, Nushell, and Helix when I'm not.
📈 Below are some stats derived from my GitHub activity. They are nothing to be too proud of. I hope to improve upon them with time.
Concretely, I'm working on getting more contributions on open source projects that I am not the owner of, and bringing Rust to the top of that most used languages list!
🐦 Follow me on twitter.
📫 Email me at nicholasomerchiasson@gmail.com.