Nikolai Vazquez

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	Who Are
	<span style="color: rgb(71, 30, 255);">You</span>?
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	I'm Nikolai Vazquez: university student by day, free
	(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software">open-source</a>)
	software writer by night. You can find my work on
    <a href="https://github.com/nvzqz"><strong>GitHub</strong></a>
    and connect with me on
    <a href="https://twitter.com/NikolaiVazquez"><strong>Twitter</strong></a>
    or
    <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nvzqz/"><strong>LinkedIn</strong></a>.
    I am also a graphic designer with some public design work visible on
	<a href="https://dribbble.com/nvzqz"><strong>Dribbble</strong></a>.
    <br><br>
    ¡Yo hablo español (🇨🇺 &amp; 🇵🇦) también! Entonces si quieres hablar de esa manera, adelante.
    <br><br>
    Ich spreche Deutsch (🇩🇪) auch! Wenn du das lieber sprechen, lass uns sprechen.
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    Free
    <span style="color: rgb(255, 35, 71);">Software</span>?
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	In my spare time, I write software that's
	<strong>free</strong>, as in:<br>
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	<ul>
		<li><strong>Free Beer:</strong> you don't need to pay a cent if you don't want to
		</li>
	</ul>
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		<li><strong>Freedom:</strong> as in “free speech”—meaning you have the liberty to run it however you like, see how it works internally, redistribute it however you like, and improve upon it yourself
		</li>
	</ul>
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    Unfortunately, not all beer is free! So, if you would like to buy me a beer (or coffee or <em>more</em>), then consider supporting my work that's benefited your project and thousands of others. Appreciation like this pushes me toward consistently producing quality software.
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    If the commitment of becoming a patron is scary or unappealing, you can also simply donate once!
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    <a href="https://www.paypal.me/nvzqz">
        <img height="35" src="https://buymecoffee.intm.org/img/button-paypal-white.png">
    </a>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Current <span style="color: rgb(230, 176, 0);">Projects</span></h2>

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    <h3><a href="https://github.com/hexe-rs/Hexe">Hexe</a></h3>
    <strong>[Work-in-progress]</strong><br>
    <a href="https://docs.rs/hexe"><strong>Documentation</strong></a><br>
    A cross-platform chess engine written in <a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/"><strong>Rust</strong></a> that will hopefully someday be competitive with <a href="https://stockfishchess.org"><strong>Stockfish</strong></a>, one of the strongest chess engines in the world.
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    <h3><a href="https://github.com/nvzqz/static-assertions-rs">Static Assertions</a></h3>
    <img src="https://img.shields.io/crates/d/static_assertions.svg"><br>
    <a href="https://docs.rs/static_assertions/"><strong>Documentation</strong></a><br>
    A library of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile_time">compile-time</a> assertions for <a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/"><strong>Rust</strong></a> to ensure that invariants are met.
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    <h3><a href="https://github.com/nvzqz/FileKit">FileKit</a></h3>
    <img src="https://img.shields.io/cocoapods/dt/FileKit.svg"><br>
    <a href="https://nvzqz.github.io/FileKit/docs/"><strong>Documentation</strong></a><br>
    A <a href="https://swift.org/about/"><strong>Swift</strong></a> library that allows for simple and expressive file management.
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    <h3><a href="https://github.com/nvzqz/RandomKit">RandomKit</a></h3>
    <img src="https://img.shields.io/cocoapods/dt/RandomKit.svg"><br>
    <a href="https://nvzqz.github.io/RandomKit/docs/"><strong>Documentation</strong></a><br>
    A featureful <a href="https://swift.org/about/"><strong>Swift</strong></a> library that makes random data generation simple and easy.
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    <h3><a href="https://github.com/nvzqz/Threadly">Threadly</a></h3>
    <img src="https://img.shields.io/cocoapods/dt/Threadly.svg"><br>
    <a href="https://nvzqz.github.io/Threadly/docs/"><strong>Documentation</strong></a><br>
    A <a href="https://swift.org/about/"><strong>Swift</strong></a> library that allows for type-safe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread-local_storage">thread-local storage</a>.
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