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			<h2>Education</h2>
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					<br />
					<span>Bachelor of Science Degree</span>
					<br />
					<span>in Computer Science.</span>
					<br />
					<br />
					<span>Graduated Magna Cum Laude</span>
					<br />
					<span>with Honors.</span>
					<br />
					<br />
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					<!-- <p>Graduated Magna Cum Laude<br />with Honors.</p> -->
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			<h2>Desire</h2>
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				<br />
						Currently seeking a remote position as
					<br>
						a software developer or technical writer.
				<br />
				<br />
			</article>
			
			
			<h2>Contact</h2>
			<article>
				<br />
				<br />
				<p>
					<span id="contact_gamepad_coder">gamepad.coder@gmail.com</span>
				</p>
					<br />
					<br />
					
				<p class="only_indent_on_wide_screens">
					<span class="">If you have a default mail client set up </span>
					<br />
					<span class="">you can click below to start an email: </span>
					<ul style="list-style: none;">
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						<br />
						
						<li>
						<span class="">
							<a href="mailto:gamepad.coder@gmail.com?subject=[About AutoHotkey Project or Library]
							&nbsp;____short_summary_here____&body=(
							&nbsp;Thanks for contacting me.

							%0A%0AAny comments or questions are welcome.

							%0A%0AFeel free to remove this parenthetical from your message,
							%0Abut please leave the [Bracketed Topic] somewhere in your subject line
							%0Ato let my filters know to prioritize your message.

							%0A%0APlease allow 24 hours for a response.
							%0AHave a great day.
							%0A%0A-Gamepad.Coder )">[Subject] About AutoHotkey Project or Library</a>
						</span>
						</li>
						<br />
						
						<li>
						<span class="">
							<a href="mailto:gamepad.coder@gmail.com?subject=[Feature Request]
							&nbsp;____your_topic_here____&body=(
							&nbsp;Thanks for contacting me.

							%0A%0AI'm a bit busy at the moment, but I'm always glad to help.
							%0AIf your request is moderately small in scope I'll definitely make time for it. 
							Otherwise I'll add it to my tasklist, but I can give guidence on 
							how to incorporate it yourself if you'd like it sooner.

							%0A%0AFeel free to remove this parenthetical from your message,
							%0Abut please leave the [Bracketed Topic] somewhere in your subject line
							%0Ato let my filters know to prioritize your message.

							%0A%0APlease allow 24 hours for a response.
							%0AHave a great day.
							%0A%0A-Gamepad.Coder )">[Subject] Feature Request</a>
						</span>
						</li>
						<br />
						
						<li>
						<span class="">
							<a href="mailto:gamepad.coder@gmail.com?subject=[Bug]
							&nbsp;____short_summary_here____&body=(
							&nbsp;Thanks for contacting me.
							
							%0A%0AFeel free to be as concise or detailed as you like.
							%0AReally appreciate it either way.
							
							%0A%0AFeel free to remove this parenthetical from your message,
							%0Abut please leave the [Bracketed Topic] somewhere in your subject line
							%0Ato let my filters know to prioritize your message.

							%0A%0APlease allow 24 hours for a response.
							%0AHave a great day.
							%0A%0A-Gamepad.Coder )">[Subject] Report a Bug</a>
						</span>
						</li>
						<br />

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				<input  id="contact__collapsible_section_1" class="toggle_collapsible_section" type="checkbox">
				<label for="contact__collapsible_section_1" class="label-toggle_collapsible_section" style="text-align:center">View the HTML for these links:</label>
				<div class="collapsible_section">
					<div class="content-inner">
						<a href="{{ "/assets/images/contact/contact_hyperlink_code.png" | absolute_url }}">
							<img id="img_unitySystem" class="app_highlight_item" 
								src="{{ "/assets/images/contact/contact_hyperlink_code.png" | absolute_url }}" /> 
						</a>
					</div>
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				<input  id="contact__collapsible_section_2" class="toggle_collapsible_section" type="checkbox">
				<label for="contact__collapsible_section_2" class="label-toggle_collapsible_section" style="text-align:center">Security Note:</label>
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						<h2>
							Reminder: <br /><br />Always be sure you trust or understand what a link does before you click it.<br />
						</h2>
						<div style="font-family:Arial;">
							<p>
								How do these links work?
							</p>
							<ul>
								<li>
									<b>&lt;a href="www.google.com"&gt;</b>
									<br />
									<span class="parenthetical">
										The text </span>&lt;a&gt;<span class="parenthetical"> is the HTML "anchor" element. 
										<br />
										The text &lt;a 
										</span>href=&quot;www.google.com&quot;<span class="parenthetical">&gt; is a hyperlink attribute and value.
										<br />
										The text </span>href<span class="parenthetical"> is the name of the attribute 
										and the value for this attribute is placed inside the two quotes, which in this example is www.google.com. 
										<br />
										Learn more about HTML here:
									</span>
									<a href="https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_href.asp">
										https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_href.asp
									</a>
									<br />
									<br />
								</li>
								<li>
									&lt;a href="<b>mailto:</b> ...&gt;
									<br />
									<span class="parenthetical">
										The above hyperlinks use the "mailto" URI to direct your browser to an email
										address instead of a website URL. 
									</span>
									<br />
									<br />
								</li>
								<li>
									&lt;a href="mailto: <b>emailAddressToSendTo@domain.etc</b> ...&gt;
									<br />
									<span class="parenthetical">
										The next portion is the destination email address.
									</span>
									<br />
									<br />
								</li>
								<li>
									&lt;a href="mailto: emailAddressToSendTo@domain.etc <b>? subject=SomeText</b> ...&gt;
									<br />
									<span class="parenthetical">
										Similar to website URLs, in a "URI" all the text after the question mark
										(</span>?<span class="parenthetical">) is called the "query string". The query
										string is a series of named parameters and values separated by ampersands (e.g.
										www.some.url?</span>parameter1=value&amp;parameter2=value2<span class="parenthetical">).										
										<br />
										Query strings are used to pass values to the destination.
										<br />
										In this case, we're passing data to the "subject" and "body" parameters.
										<br /> 
										All this does is pre-populate the text in the subject field and 
										pre-populate the text in the body field when the mail client opens the link.
									</span>
									<br />
									<br />
								</li>
								<li>
									Condensed, the above code could alternatively be:
									<br />
									<span class="parenthetical">
										&lt;a href="mailto:gamepad.coder@gmail.com?subject=Hi&amp;body=Prepoulate&amp;nbps;text."&gt;
										<br />
										&nbsp; &nbsp; [Subject] This line is where the text for the green link comes from.
										<br />
										&lt;/a&gt;
									</span>
								</li>
							</ul>
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							<br />
							<p>
								What does the %0A encoding do in these links?
							</p>
							<ul>
								<li>
									<span class="parenthetical">
										A percent sign '%' followed by zero '0' and 'A' 
									(</span>%0A<span class="parenthetical">) 
										is the URL encoding for the newline character.
									</span>
								</li>
							</ul>
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							<br />
							<p>
								What does the &amp;nbsp; encoding do in these links?
							</p>
							<ul>
								<li>
									<span class="parenthetical">
										The text 										
										(</span>&amp;nbsp;<span class="parenthetical">) 									
										is the HTML entity encoding for "a non-breaking space".
										Non-breaking just means it won't insert a new line (or in other words, it won't
										"break" the line). 
									</span>
									<br />
									<br />
								</li>
								<li>
									<span class="parenthetical">
										I used it in these links for horizontal spacing and as a visual cue to emphasize
										that the parenthetical surrounds the entire inserted note.
									</span>
								</li>
							</ul>
							<br />
							<br />
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							<p>
								URL? URI? What's the difference?
							</p>					
							<ul>
								<li>
									URI: "Uniform Resource Identifier"
								</li>
								<li>
									URL: "Uniform Resource Locator"
								</li>
								<li>
									<span class="parenthetical">Read more here:</span>
									<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/176274/13536555">
										https://stackoverflow.com/a/176274/13536555
									</a>
								</li>
							</ul>
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							To see a brief tutorial for mailto links,
							<br />
							<span class="parenthetical">click here:</span>
							<a href="https://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/mailto-links/">https://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/mailto-links/</a>
								<br />
								<br />
								<br />
							
							To read more about the mailto URI, 
							<br />
							<span class="parenthetical">click here:</span>
							<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailto">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailto</a>
								<br />
								<br />
								<br />
							
							To read more about HTML URL Encodings,
							<br />
							<span class="parenthetical">click here:</span>
							<a href="https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP">https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP</a>
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				<input  id="contact__collapsible_section_3" class="toggle_collapsible_section" type="checkbox">
				<label for="contact__collapsible_section_3" class="label-toggle_collapsible_section" style="text-align:center">Setting up your default mail client:</label>
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						<div style="font-family:Arial;">
							<span class="parenthetical">Default mail clients can be configured to respond whenever
							you click a "mailto:address@site.domain" link. You can register your web browser 
							or an app on your device to respond. Typically when you click a mailto link for the first time, your internet browser will ask you if you want to set a default mail client. If this doesn't happen, the following links should help you get started:</span>
							<br />
							<br />
							
							(Mac) 
							<br />
							<a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201607">
								https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201607
							</a>
							<br />
							<br />
							
							(Windows 10)
							<br />
							<a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-default-programs-in-windows-10-e5d82cad-17d1-c53b-3505-f10a32e1894d"> 
								https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-default-programs-in-windows-10-e5d82cad-17d1-c53b-3505-f10a32e1894d</a>
							<br />
							<br />
							
							(Chrome) 
							<br />
							<a href="https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9308783?hl=en">
								https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9308783?hl=en</a>
							<br />
							<br />
							
							(Firefox) 
							<br />
							<a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-program-used-open-email-links">
								https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-program-used-open-email-links</a>
							<br />
							<br />
							
							(Internet Explorer) 
							<br />
							<a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/555566">
								https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/555566</a>
							<br />
							<br />
							
							(iOS, Gmail) 
							<br />
							<a href="https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10079967?hl=en">
								https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10079967?hl=en</a>
							<br />
							<br />
							
							(General Default Apps) 
							<br />
							<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-change-default-apps-windows-android-macos-ios/">
								https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-change-default-apps-windows-android-macos-ios/</a>					
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						<span style="
							font-size: 26px;
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						<span class="parenthetical">click to expand</span>
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				<div id="aside_contact_proficiencies">
					<h3 id="h_prof">Proficiencies</h3>
				</div>
					<ul>
						<li>Documentation</li>
						<li>User Interface Design</li>
						<li>Eloquent Breakdowns</li>
						<li>Writing <span class="parenthetical" style="color:#2571e2;">+</span> Communication</li>
					</ul>
				
				<div id="aside_contact_languages">
					<h3 id="h_prog_lang">Programming Languages</h3>
				</div>
					<ul>
						<li>C++ <span class="parenthetical" style="color:#2571e2;">and</span> C</li>
						<li>CSS <span class="parenthetical" style="color:#2571e2;">and</span> HTML</li>
						<li>Java</li>
						<li>AutoHotkey</li>
						<!-- <li>GDScript</li> -->
						<li><span class="parenthetical">learning:</span> Python, JS</li>
					</ul>

				<div id="aside_contact_interests">
					<h3 id="h_interests">Enjoys</h3>
				</div>
					<ul>
						<li>Philosophy</li>
						<li>Complex Systems</li>
						<li>Coding</li>
					</ul>

				<div id="aside_contact_tools">
					<h3 id="h_prog_lang">Tools</h3>
				</div>
					<ul>
						<li>
							<a class="nav_ref" href="https://code.visualstudio.com/docs">
								Windows Subsystem for Linux
							</a>
						</li>
						<li>
							<a class="nav_ref" href="https://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a> and
							<a class="nav_ref" href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 
							<span class="parenthetical">(web)</span>
							<!-- <span class="parenthetical">(static site builder)</span> -->
						</li>
						<!-- <li>
							<a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 
							<span class="parenthetical">(documentation generator)</span>
						</li> -->
						<li>
							<a class="nav_ref" href="https://www.gimp.org/">Gimp</a> and <a class="nav_ref" href="https://krita.org/">Krita</a>
							<span class="parenthetical">(images)</span>
							<!-- <span class="parenthetical">(GNU Photoshop Alternatives)</span> -->
						</li>
						<li>
							<a class="nav_ref" href="https://www.blender.org/">Blender</a>
							<span class="parenthetical">(3D modeling)</span>
							<!-- <span class="parenthetical">(GNU Photoshop Alternatives)</span> -->
						</li>
						<li>
							<a class="nav_ref" href="https://code.visualstudio.com/docs">
								VS Code
							</a>
						</li>
					</ul>
					
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