boringcactus (Melody Horn)

i am an immortal programming goddess and a trans ≈woman. i've been programming for over a decade, and in that time i've worked on a wide variety of projects. my pronouns are ze/hir or it/its, or, if you absolutely must for some reason, she/her.

i exist in a lot of places:

• see me retweet nonsense you don't care about on twitter
• see me share longer nonsense you don't care about on cohost
• watch me occasionally stream things on twitch
• watch various kinds of permanent video content on youtube
• give me money once on ko-fi or on an ongoing basis on patreon
• if you must, email me at melody@<this domain>

currently, by day i'm a software engineer at the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's Customer Technology Department. by night i play final fantasy xiv and occasionally work on side projects or write blog posts (containing opinions that are my own and not those of my employer), like these:

• A 2021 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries (24 Oct 2021)

• An Anti-License Manifesto (29 Sep 2021)

• How to Develop a Deeply Unhealthy Relationship with Twitter (25 May 2021)

• Non-FSF Copyleft Usage (24 Mar 2021)

• Cactus's Obvious, Intuitive Naming Scheme (21 Mar 2021)

• Can We Please Move Past Git? (22 Feb 2021)

• Every President Sucked (15 Feb 2021)

• Not "Any Purpose" (11 Feb 2021)

• Crowbar: Turns out, language development is hard (19 Oct 2020)

• Crowbar: Simplifying C's type names (13 Oct 2020)

• Crowbar: Defining a good C replacement (28 Sep 2020)

• A Survey of Rust Embeddable Scripting Languages (16 Sep 2020)

• A Survey of Rust GUI Libraries (21 Aug 2020)

• Post-Open Source (13 Aug 2020)

• Monads, Explained Without Bullshit (18 Jul 2020)

• What, Then, Shall We Do? (15 Jul 2020)

• Setting Up A Police Scanner With An RTL-SDR (26 Jun 2020)

• Lifehack: Running An Entire Desktop Session Remotely With MobaXterm (20 Mar 2020)

• Rust 2020: Write Once, Run Anywhere (03 Nov 2019)

• Email Notifications for SSH Logins From Scratch (09 Mar 2019)

• Announcing vidslice (27 Feb 2019)

• Futures (31 Aug 2018)

• Some Thoughts About Work (17 Jul 2018)

• Slicing and Dicing Images with GIMP and Python (23 Jun 2018)

• Windows, Vim, and Python: An Unholy Trinity of Pain (17 Jun 2018)

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