Nick Agliano
Software engineer based in Richmond, Virginia.
About
Historically a web developer, slowly dipping more and more into low-level
programming. I write blogs about technology and life. Readers beware that
my writing contains lots of hand waving and navel gazing.
Contact
- Email: first name and last name @gmail.com (no spaces or punctuation)
- LinkedIn
Work
Principal Software Engineer at
Simple Thread
(5 years).
Active projects
- power-grid — open source standards and software for the power grid
- Five Hundred Words — habitual writing application
- The Book Game — a CLI game about books and stories
- Tending to my family, my garden, and figuring out what to do with the school bus in my driveway
Open source
Writings
Favorites marked with an asterisk.
Talks and podcasts
Books I've read
73 books, in roughly the order I read them (click to expand)
- The Ranger's Apprentice Series, John Flanagan
- The Divide, Elizabeth Kay
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling
- Graceling, Kristin Cashore
- Eragon, Christopher Paolini
- The Warrior Heir, Cinda Williams Chima
- The Wizard Heir, Cinda Williams Chima
- Hatchet, Gary Paulson
- Peak, Roland Smith
- Everlost, Neal Shusterman
- Anthem, Ayn Rand
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
- Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
- Antigone, Sophocles
- The Narnia Series, CS Lewis
- Rappaccini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
- 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
- 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 *
- The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis *
- 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 *
- The Confessions, Augustine of Hippo *
- End of the Affair, Graham Greene *
- Just Enough Research, Erika Hall
- Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, Bertrand Russell *
- Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
- The Complete Stories, Flannery O'Connor
- 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