Nick Agliano

About Me:

Web developer & software engineer based in Richmond, Virginia.

Contact:

I can be reached via email (first name and last name @gmail.com, no spaces or punctuation).

Currently working or recently worked with:

• Simple Thread
• OccasionGenius
• Verdata
• Riverside Outfitters
• Virginia Commonwealth University

Personal projects I'm currently working on:

• Scavenger's Breakfast — music blog
• School bus conversion
• Moon Lightning — sci-fi short
• Tree — family tree visualizer
• Learning Houdini and Unreal Engine
• Designing a family crest in the 21st century
• The Book Game — video game (private, for now)
• Backcountry Cookbook — outdoor recipes and meal planning tool (private, for now)

Talks and Stuff:

• Guest on Rails With Jason Podcast

Books I've read, in the vague order that I read them:

• The Ranger's Apprentice Series, John Flanagan
• The Divide, Elizabeth Kay
• Graceling, Kristin Cashore
• The Warrior Heir, Cinda Williams Chima
• The Wizard Heir, Cinda Williams Chima
• Hatchet, Gary Paulson
• Peak, Roland Smith
• Everlost, Neal Shusterman
• The Narnia Series, CS Lewis
• Rappaccini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
• Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
• Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
• The Stranger, Albert Camus
• The Assault, Harry Mulisch
• Perfume, Patrick Suskind
• Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
• The Piano Lesson, August Wilson
• The Lion and the Jewel, Wole Soyinka
• The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
• The Wise Man's Fear, Patrick Rothfuss
• Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
• The Martian, Andy Weir
• Welcome to Nightvale, Joseph Fink
• The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
• Evolution, Carl Bergstrom
• Hillbilly Elegy, JD Vance
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin
• A Small Porch, Wendell Berry
• The Bible, multiple authors
• The Emerald Mile, Kevin Fedarko
• The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis
• Mere Christianity, CS Lewis
• Infinite Reality: The Hidden Blueprint of Our Virtual Lives, Jim Blascovich
• Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick
• There's This River... Grand Canyon Boatman Stories, Christa Sadler
• Raging River, Lonely Trail Tales Told by the Campfire's Glow, Vaughn Short
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles*
• The Unbroken Thread, Sohrab Ahmari*
• SQL Cookbook: Query Solutions and Techniques for Database Developers, Anthony Molinaro
• Thoughts for Young Men, JC Ryle
• Spurgeon's Sermons Vol 1, Charles Spurgeon
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck
• On the Road, Jack Kerouac
• A Timbered Choir, Wendell Berry*
• Reforesting Faith, Matthew Sleeth
• Gilead, Marilynne Robinson*
• Dawn of the New Everything, Jaron Lanier*
• Magic Kingdom for Sale -- Sold!, Terry Brooks
• Peopleware, Timothy Lister and Tom DeMarco
• Polished Ruby Programming, Jeremy Evans
• God, Technology, and the Christian Life, Tony Reinke*
• The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate, John H Walton
• Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai, Matti Friedman
• The Fifth Season, NK Jemisin
• The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton*