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│                            Nick Agliano                             │
│                    Software Engineer • Richmond, VA                 │
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$ whoami 
Software engineer based in Richmond, Virginia. Historically a web developer, but slowly dipping more and more into low-level programming.

I like to write creatively about technology and life. Readers beware that my writing is full of hand-waving and navel-gazing.
$ contact --info 
Email: first name and last name @gmail.com (no spaces or punctuation)
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nickagliano
$ cat /etc/employment 
Company: Simple Thread
Duration: 5 years
Role: Senior Software Engineer II
$ ls ~/projects/active/ 
drwxr-xr-x  power-grid/     # Open source standards and software for the power grid
drwxr-xr-x  five-hundred-words/ # Five Hundred Words — habitual writing application
drwxr-xr-x  the-book-game/  # The Book Game — a CLI game about books and stories
drwxr-xr-x  life/           # Tending to my family, my garden, and figuring out what to do with the school bus in my driveway
$ git log --author="nickagliano" --oneline --all --remotes 
# Open Source Contributions

project-slippi/slippi-rust-extensions  # Rust extensions for Slippi (Super Smash Bros. Melee replay analysis)
$ find ~/writings/ -type f | sort -r 
2025  Speaking in CIM: The 26 Year Old Language of the Power Grid
2025  Collection of posts
2024  What I Learned About Software From Building a Chicken Coop
2023  LLMs in a Vacuum Are Useless
2023  How Software Is Preventing Blackouts
2023  Navigating the Intersection of AI and Creative Writing
2022  Through The Lens of a Programmer *
2022  The Bugsworth Letters (based on CS Lewis' The Screwtape Letters)
2022  How To Create a New Rails 7 App With Tailwind
2021  Secret PostgreSQL Trick
2021  The Best Authentication Framework Is No Framework At All(?)
2021  Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About WYSIWYG Editors *
2020  Ruby on Rails in a Week *
2020  Learning to Learn

# * indicates favorites
$ grep -r "speaker.*agliano" ~/events/ 
2025  Transmission Hosting Capacity Analysis and Beyond at Dominion Energy
2024  Fantasy Writing With the Assistance of LLMs
2021  Guest on Rails With Jason Podcast
$ tail -5 ~/library/reading_list.txt # click to expand 
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett *
Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton *
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy *
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov *
A Ballet of Lepers, Leonard Cohen

# 73 books total - click header to see all