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:
- cohost (RIP)
- twitter, alas
- github
- ko-fi
- youtube
- twitch.tv
- mastodon
- bluesky
- email:
melody@<this domain>
currently, by day i’m a software engineer at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Customer Technology Department. by night i am the proprietrix of Somnolent Succulent Studio LLC, but most of the time i just play final fantasy xiv. occasionally i’ll work on side projects or write blog posts (containing opinions that are my own and not those of my employer), like these:
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Abdication Is Not Simplicity, or cat -v Considered Harmless (08 Sep 2024)
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25-Hour Time (and the Secret Third Half of the Day) (17 Aug 2023)
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writing balanced elevenary in the ogham script (21 Sep 2022)
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How to Develop a Deeply Unhealthy Relationship with Twitter (25 May 2021)
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Crowbar: Turns out, language development is hard (19 Oct 2020)
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A Survey of Rust Embeddable Scripting Languages (16 Sep 2020)
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Lifehack: Running An Entire Desktop Session Remotely With MobaXterm (20 Mar 2020)
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Email Notifications for SSH Logins From Scratch (09 Mar 2019)
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Slicing and Dicing Images with GIMP and Python (23 Jun 2018)
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Windows, Vim, and Python: An Unholy Trinity of Pain (17 Jun 2018)
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