Welcome! Bienvenue! Agus failte!
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.
What I Do
Projects
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.
Skills
I work with these. Some more than others. Java is on the tail of the list for a reason.
What I Like
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.
The Numbers Don't Lie
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!
Reach Out
Follow me on twitter.
Email me at nicholasomerchiasson@gmail.com.