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Profressionally, I am a full-time Software Engineer with a heavy focus on DevOps, automation, and a deep knowledge of software. I've worn many hats over the years - test engineer, developer, project architect, and more - and I take pride in being adaptive to new problem spaces.

Nothing is more interesting to me than a problem that needs solving; nothing is more satisfying to me than solving it in a way that is designed to last.

Personally, I try to fill my life with as much art and creativity as I can! I'm an avid fantasy fan; between running D&D games, cosplay, and even amatuer chainmaille work (emphasis on amatuer), I make sure to keep myself busy. If you're ever at the Maryland Ren Faire, keep an eye out for some of my antics!

I have a life-long love of music, theater, lifting, and puzzles, but I'm always seeking out new hobbies to take on. If anything I listed resonated with you, I may just be your guy!

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Programming Languages:

Python
C
C++
C#
Javascript
Groovy
Bash
Batch (cmd.exe)

File Standards:

YAML
HTML
XML/XSD (1.0 and 1.1)

Technologies:

GitHub Actions
Jenkins
AWS Lambda
AWS S3
Qt/QML/PySide6
Atlassian Software (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket)
Git CLI/Scripting

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1. TOTK Armor Tracker

A standalone, cross-platform application for tracking your armor progress in the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Built using C++, with QtQuick and QML as the layout designer and renderer.
Maintained with Github Actions to handle CI/CD.

2. Together, Tacit

A virtual-reality application designed to allow collaboration between low-vision individuals and sighted artists.

Uses an Oculus Rift headset and custom haptic controllers to provide an artist 'haptic' feedback with a sculpting surface.
Build using the Unity game engine with custom C# scripting.

3. Chainmaille AR Calculator

Coming soon!

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I am currently open to discussing professional work - if you are interested, feel free to reach out!

Email: noah.black@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-black-developer/
GitHub: https://github.com/noah-black-developer

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This page was designed as an experiment with building a website one piece of tech at a time, going from HTML to CSS to JavaScript. While modern web frameworks are powerful and brilliant at what they do, I was interested in getting a better understanding of the inner workings of a webpage and better inform my usage of those frameworks in the future.

I figure, well, since it was a bit of a deep-dive into the simpler days of the web, it only felt right to style the whole page as such. Which got us here - to a (hopefully) faithful recreation of the Apple II terminal screen!

Credit to some of the awesome folks on the internet who's references made this site possible:

Pat Orjk's Text-to-ASCII Generator, which helped create the styled text you see on this page.
Edwin on dev.to, for a great summary of how they went about creating a CSS-styled terminal of their own.

This whole page is open source, so feel free to view the project on Github if you're curious to see a bit of the inner workings! There might even be a few things I've kept secret, if you are wise enough to spot them...