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Melissa :verified_trans:​

@codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy
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Gamedev, musician, trans. Making games, audio plugins, and a bunch of Trackmania stuff. Secretly a cat. I have too many hobbies. she/her Profile picture by @heyheymomo 🌉 bridged from ⁂ meow.social/@codecat, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Oh, Caddy is slop :( so that's another thing I'll have to migrate away from. Ugh.
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Normalize re-implementing the wheel
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 23/09/2026
With the Rails 8.2 release imminent, real work is about to ramp up on @mosscap, the fork we've been laying the groundwork for. If you want to help reduce the impact of the "weird guys" on Rails, Ruby and OSS in general, we need your help! This is ESPECIALLY true if you're a member of a […]
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Just once I would like to see update for vscode *not* talk about their stupid AI.. Even Codium is giving me these release notes :( Where's the cool new IDE features these days??
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
I enjoyed the Wardogs beta on Linux just last week. Normally I don't like these games, but it was surprisingly fun, so I bought it. Now they added some crappy anti-cheat that blocks Linux.. seems I'm not allowed to enjoy things. 😭
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Damn, hello_imgui is slop now :(
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Finally got network working on qemu.. one step closer to trying to live on Archlinux as my primary OS 😅 So far this kind of works better than Virtualbox on a Windows host? Neat..
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
Steam user profiles are so archaic and nostalgic nowadays. You look at an old friend's Steam profile and there's comments there from over a decade ago saying "merry christmas!", "happy new year!", or "meow!" Nowadays people are just using Discord, where messages like that don't mean much for […]
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
Kinda blown away by the fact that Linux w/ Pipewire supports my Rodecaster with multi-tracking enabled out of the box.. One less thing I need in Windows 🙃
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
Does anyone know any good (modern) :blender: Blender learning books or tutorials for someone who has ADHD? 👀 I couldn't find any good books to buy online that also isn't slop.. :( #blender #blender3d #books
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
I wonder what the programming language with the least slopcode is.. like, not in the actual language itself (compiler, LSP, etc) but projects in general that use the language. My first immediate thought is Zig wins this because of their strong stance against slop and it being relatively niche […]
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Adam Demasi @kirb.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@kirb/1153068922294311… There are new articles this week, citing StatCounter, stating that Linux rose to 10% market share in the US. Exciting if true, but I doubt it is. More bots pretend to be real users than ever now, and as with last time, that messes with the […]
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
Discord's "don't use a full core while idle in a channel where nothing is happening" challenge, level impossible Seriously, this has been a reproducible problem for years now, it's so bad.
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
Released the 1.3 update for Nimble Kick today! nimble.itch.io/kick/devlog/1598194/… I've been using these features for so long now, I forgot I never released it 😅 #music #musicproduction #plugin
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Nimble Kick 1.3.0 released
Nimble Kick 1.3.0 is out now! This release features a refresh of the UI, new visual settings, as well as a number of new features. New interface layout, design, and feel. Added transient filter lock s...
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026
Fedi, where do people go to follow news on all the cool hacker cons? ...I need to go to them and I keep missing them
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
Wanted to post more of my music, so here we go. My remix of "Albuquerque New Mexico", as featured in @kitboga's video :neocat_blep: #music
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026
Have I posted about Feneko yet? 👀 Feneko is a modern pure CSS framework inspired by Bulma, designed to be customizable and easy to use, with semantic styling and sensible defaults. In active development as I continue to iterate on it for some big projects. 🔗 […]
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
Started a Tidal trial this morning and immediately the same day they announce a price increase. For real?? :(
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
It's a bit ironic to see a slopcode warning on the slopcoded github TWICE for whatever reason
Screenshot of the spdlog github repository, with a warning "A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository", with the user displayed as "claude". However, the warning is displayed twice, once at the top and once as part of the file list.
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
CatJammer: a plugin for your DAW that makes the cat jam synced to your music. :neocat_floof: Or the dog vibe. :neodog_floof: Or the parrot party. :ms_parrot: Everything you've ever needed for your music production needs. (This goes viral on twitter every now and […] [Original post on meow.social]
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
Every queer person's rent or mortgage should be free this month. That's it, that's the toot. #pride
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026
I had a dream where anyone who was getting a kitty could stand in line for Jeff Kaplan to come up with a name for the kitty (it was a very long line)
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
The urge to not open source new projects because of the nearly guaranteed chance a plagiarism machine will come and launder it :(
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026
Haven't posted a song in a while, so: here's "Arcade"! This is an older track I kinda neglected over the years after initially making it, so I just wanted to put it out there. Enjoy :neocat_happy: soundcloud.com/codecatt/arcade #hardcore #frenchcore #music
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Arcade
They come as if from outer space. Defender, Pacman, Asteroids.. they are a menace.
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026
Haven't posted a song in a while, so: here's "Arcade"! This is an older track I kinda neglected over the years after initially making it, so I just wanted to put it out there. Enjoy :neocat_happy: soundcloud.com/codecatt/arcade #hardcore #frenchcore #music
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Arcade
They come as if from outer space. Defender, Pacman, Asteroids.. they are a menace.
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026
The 15 minute visit from the bathroom renovation guy to measure our bathroom is in reality a full day of mentally preparing for the guy to come followed by the rest of the day recovering from it :neocat_laugh_nervous: :neocat_laugh_nervous: :neocat_laugh_nervous: #ActuallyAutistic
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026
What fediverse client are people using nowadays on iOS? Currently still using Ivory, but not sure I have the spending to keep paying for it :(
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026
I'm increasingly getting interested in making pixel art.. wonder how long I can keep that hyper-focus going
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026
"AI" as we use the term today is a construct built on fascist ideas and reasoning. In order to fight fascism we need to get rid of those patterns, not normalize them. (Original title: AI as a Fascist Artifact) tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist…
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AI as a Fascist Artifact
(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. I added some shots of the slides I used as a structure for the text which […]
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026
Made a "Forgejo Refined", inspired by its Github counterpart. Some of these features I don't see being implemented into Forgejo itself any time soon, so for now this will make it a bit nicer to use for me personally 😅 codeberg.org/codecat/forgejo-refined #forgejo #codeberg
Forgejo Refined settings window. On the left there are some settings listed:
- Enable Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
- Enable relative time heatmap (with optional "Enable everywhere")
- Enable file list entry icons
- Enable slop warning
There's a button "Save settings", and a notice that the source code is available on Codeberg. There's also a "Close" link on the top right of the window.
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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
alright here we go codeberg.org/keepasschi (linked post)
KeePassXC asks us to be skeptical of them if we are skeptical of LLMs. This is a convincing argument. A password manager doesn't need 300 regular contributors armed with 14 LLMs; it just needs to do its job, be stable, and be ported to Qt 6 already.

We are a small group of engineers with extensive open source maintenance and information security experience, and we forked KeePassχ from KeePassXC 2.7.10, the last release before the advent of the LLM policy linked above. We like using a robust, secure, and trustworthy password manager, so that's what we'll focus on. Anything on top of that is a bonus.
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026
When you look something up and this is the image at the top of the article, you know you're in for an adventure 🙃 (courtesy of @oskardudycz)
Blogpost titled "How to set global setting for XUnit tests". The first image is the dog meme where they're covered in fire in their living room and then saying "This is fine."
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026
Ugh I keep having to restart Visual Studio every 30 minutes because it keeps lagging out. This has been an issue in Visual Studio for many years now, it's so frustrating :( I keep looking at Rider as a potential replacement IDE, but that also has so many of its own issues. :/
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026
I think it’s appropriate to be wearing my #Artemis shirt today 👀
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026
Im not good at promoting myself so this #TDOV im just gonna chill and hope the world becomes a nicer place soon. Also follow me maybe, im trying to do work that I think is important and could use more eyes on it 🥺
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026
Hello #accessibility and #screenreader friends! Does anyone *really* use Windows Narrator? I feel like it has too many issues to be worth it. NVDA is so much better, isn't it?
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
Apparently today is musicians day, and hey I am one of those! 👀 I make music as Missterious under different genres, but mainly focusing on Hard Dance music (Hardstyle, Hardcore, and Frenchcore). 🎵 But I have also made MANY other music styles! Lots of remixes of screaming scammers featured on […]
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026
Wow. Serious Sam has turned 25 years old yesterday: store.steampowered.com/news/app/410… The game that started my game development career and practically pushed me to become a better programmer. I even did an in-person internship at Croteam 15 years ago!
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Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter - 25 YEARS OF SERIOUS SAM! - Steam News
Today, our favorite action hero officially turns 25 years old! It’s been an absolutely wild ride for Sam. From blasting through the sands of ancient Egypt in a genre defining first-person shooter, to tackling top-down indie spin-offs and stepping directly into virtual reality, Serious Sam has taken many forms over the last quarter-century. But no matter what field you drop him into, he has always stayed true to himself: bringing total, unfiltered mayhem.
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026
RE: meow.social/@codecat/11618192376226… So I did end up writing a quick tool for this yesterday, using Go templates: codeberg.org/NimbleTools/sitegen
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026
So has anyone forked systemd yet
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Sean Boots @sboots.mastodon.sboots.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026
New (non-work) blog post! 📝 “Generative AI vegetarianism” sboots.ca/2026/03/11/generative-ai-…
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Generative AI vegetarianism
Hello, it’s me: I’m a generative AI vegetarian. The tech industry is convinced this is the future; I don’t want any of it, full stop. Why choose generative AI vegetarianism? Just like real-life vegetarianism, there are a bunch of good reasons.
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026
Getting to know #Bitwig 6 a little bit. There's still some features I'm missing from Ableton, so I'm not sure I can fully switch even with 6, but it's already a lot better :neocat_floof_happy:
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026
Got test coverage of Fire up to 94.2% now 👏 Still looking for people to help test! If you're a Go enthusiast and you're familiar with the "Fiber" framework, Fire is a (mostly) drop-in replacement for it currently in development; only human code 😊 #opensource #golang #noai […]
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026
Switching my editors back to Monokai brings me back to the 2010s :neocat_happy:
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026
I need a static site generator that is not focused around blog posts please :blobcatsadreach:
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026
🔥 Introducing "Fire": a fast web framework for Go! Still in very early development; figured I'd publish it already in case people want to help out early. (Early testing can help out a lot!) 💕 :boost_requested: 👉 codeberg.org/gofire/fire #golang #opensource #webdev #codeberg #noai
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fire
Fast web framework for Go.
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026
me: zero energy, want to do nothing *drinks one (1) coffee* I’m gonna do ALL THE THINGS 😬😬😬
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026
Yes, I could use archive.today (and its clones), but its behavior is WAY to sketchy at this point. See arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02…
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026
One of the open source projects I was relying on for a bunch of things started heavily using AI for its development. So I did with any sane person would do.. I spent the weekend reimplementing its API from the ground up 🤣 Definitely not mature enough to be released yet, but it’s off to a good […]
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Melissa :verified_trans:​ @codecat.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026
Little song I made last night using the Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Tubelectric samples :neocat_happy: #music #musicproduction
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