James Mason

Who am I?

Software Developer at NMBS. Computer Science Masters graduate from the University of Sheffield. For whatever reason you are here, I hope you enjoy it a little. This is just my own tiny space on the internet to talk about what I do and enjoy.

What I like to do?

Any other year I would have spent more of my time away from the computer doing other activites, but recent events have made that rare. But I have found things to do in the meantime.

• D&D

  I have been playing DnD for probably 10 years now and it is still the most interesting and inventive game I've ever seen and has allowed me and my friends to come up with our own immense stories that will stay with me.

• Books

  In the last year I started reading books for something to do indoors for obvious reasons and discovered that I now really enjoy them. Now I enjoy sitting in a comfy armchair in my room with a nice coffee and diving into the pages.

• Hiking

  When given the opportunity I absolutely love hiking and camping. Fresh air and lots of time to force you to do nothing but chat with friends while distracting by the landscape and terrain, perfection. And don't get me started on campfires.

• Film and TV

  I LOVE movies and TV. Pretty much anything and everything goes as long as it's entertaining. But nothing really beats Lord of The Rings for movies and I'd say Gravity Falls has the TV crown.

• Music and Soundtracks

  Pretty much any time I'm not otherwise pre-occupied or using my ears for other purposes, I am listening to music. (As I write this for example) But my love of music covers more than just the stuff on the radio, and honestly in recent years I listen to more Original Soundtracks than normal music. The music in movies and games make me feel way more than regular music does now and provides my life a background noise that I will never get old of.

• Japanese

  I am currently learning Japanese! Their culture and everything else has always interested me since watching Anime and the like. I would like to go out and live there at some point in my life and tour the whole country.

• Programming

  Obviously I love to code. Be it programs for school or university or personal projects to count the sources of my thousands of wallpapers, I enjoy it. Something about it just clicks with me and once I get into the flow I can honestly lose hours.
• Gaming

  Gaming has been a love of mine since I was but a wee boy. Having grown up with the industry I have seen the entire lives of franchises and fallen into their plots and music which have seriously shaped who I am now.

How do I do it?

Now for the technical things I can do and perhaps a little about them.

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript

  As you may be able to tell from this website, I can use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to make websites and web apps. I would also list some back-end frameworks but I have never settled on which ones.
• Python

  Python can be used for a wide variety of things but I have mostly used it as a tool to make little useful things for myself. For example, since I have thousands of wallpapers that cycle on my PC, I lose track of them so I made a little program to count what each one is about and list them in a text file.
• Java

  At first the class system of Java came naturally to me and over the years of learning other languages and practicing them I have come to think it is a little... much. But it works nicely!
• Github

  What else can you use quite as well as GitHub to keep track of all your projects and see practically every other project on the internet that you can then assist with? You tell me.

Where can you find me?

Unsurprisingly, I spend a lot of time on the web, so I can be found all over. If you wanna see some of my work or get in contact, here are some options.