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If youâre interested in that, you can find more information 87in <a href="/about/resume.pdf">my resume</a>.</p> 88 89<p>Iâm a big proponent of open-source, with over 150 GitHub repositories and 90patches accepted into over 40 projects. Iâm also the author and maintainer of 919 git/GitHub tools, <a href="https://rubygems.org/profiles/xiongchiamiov">11 RubyGems</a>, and 9 Python packages. Youâll also find me 92active on <a href="https://stackexchange.com/users/41616/xiong-chiamiov?tab=accounts">the Stack Exchange network</a>, as a top 0.5% user on 93<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/users/120999/">Stack Overflow</a> and <a href="http://serverfault.com/users/12214/">Server Fault</a>, and one of the top 100 users by reputation 94on <a href="http://security.stackexchange.com/users/16960/">the Information Security site</a>.</p> 95 96<p><a href="http://php.net/">PHP</a> was my first true programming language that I spent any time with, and it 97was my primary until the summer after my freshman year of <a href="http://calpoly.edu/">university</a>, when I started working for the <a href="http://ceng.calpoly.edu/">College of Engineering</a> on 98<a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/">Django</a>-powered websites. I fell in love with <a href="https://python.org/">Python</a> and <a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/">its 99philosophy</a>, and itâs been my primary language since then. Iâm also 100pretty comfortable with Bash and Ruby.</p> 101 102<p>On the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DISC_assessment">DISC</a> view of the universe, I have a natural ranking of 100 S and C, 23 103D and 7 I, which puts me as a pure Coordinator. While not a natural leader in 104any way, Iâm rebellious enough to tell the project lead (plainly) when I think 105theyâve made a poor choice, but passive enough to follow their final decisions.</p> 106 107<p>Iâm very slowly working on <a href="https://leanpub.com/growing-up/">an introductory book on web operations</a>.</p> 108 109 110 </div> 111 </div> 112 <div id="sidebar" class="span-6 last"> 113 <div> 114 <h1>I also write at:</h1> 115 <a href="http://itbrokeand.ifixit.com">It Broke and iFixit</a><br /> 116 <a href="http://thefuckingbible.com">The Fucking Bible</a> 117 </div> 118 <div> 119 <h1>Find me on:</h1> 120 <a href="https://github.com/xiongchiamiov">GitHub</a><br /> 121 <a href="http://coderwall.com/xiongchiamiov">coderwall</a><br /> 122 <a href="http://www.reddit.com/user/xiongchiamiov/">Reddit</a> 123 <small><a href="/about/reddits.html">[reddits]</a></small><br /> 124 <a href="https://www.quora.com/Xiong-Chiamiov">Quora</a><br /> 125 <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xiongchiamiov">Hacker News</a><br /> 126 <a href="http://stackexchange.com/users/41616/xiong-chiamiov?tab=accounts">Stack Exchange</a><br /> 127 <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/xiongchiamiov">Last.fm</a><br /> 128 <a href="http://pinboard.in/u:xiong.chiamiov">Pinboard</a><br /> 129 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=837370606">Facebook</a><br /> 130 <a href="http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=userpage&uid=272973">AniDB</a><br /> 131 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Xiong_Chiamiov">Wikipedia</a> 132 </div> 133 <!-- Goodreads widget --> 134 <div id="gr_challenge_3082" style="border: 2px solid #EBE8D5; border-radius:10px; padding: 0px 7px 0px 7px; max-width:230px; min-height: 100px"> 135 <div id="gr_challenge_progress_body_3082" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: georgia,serif;line-height: 18px"> 136 <h3 style="margin: 4px 0 10px; font-weight: normal; text-align: center"> 137 <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/3082-2015-reading-challenge" style="text-decoration: none; font-family:georgia,serif;font-style:italic; font-size: 1.1em">2015 Reading Challenge</a> 138 </h3> 139 <div class="challengePic"> 140 <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/3082-2015-reading-challenge"><img alt="2015 Reading Challenge" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/challenges/1420220454p2/3082.jpg" style="float:left; margin-right: 10px; border: 0 none" /></a> 141 </div> 142 <div> 143 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/19434699-xiong-chiamiov">Xiong</a> has read 2 books toward his goal of 16 books. 144 </div> 145 <div style="width: 100px; margin: 4px 5px 5px 0; float: left; border: 1px solid #382110; height: 8px; overflow: hidden; background-color: #FFF"> 146 <div style="width: 12%; background-color: #D7D2C4; float: left"><span style="visibility:hidden">hide</span></div>
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