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My game dev wife, Vivianne, has worked on two games that have become instant cult-classics.

Keeping up with people with multiple websites is hard, and I was a part of that problem.

I previously wrote about how I wasn't listening to many podcasts anymore, but that has since changed.

So with my last post on hosting an IRC server with Ergo with Traefik on Coolify (that's a mouthful) I tried my best to avoid digging too deep in to the Ergo configuration yaml.

IRC is back on the menu!

This month my wife, Vivianne, and I started a blog together.

My wife is a huge fan of Rayman 2.

Time for some new defaults.

Damn, this year sucked.

I don't know how many reasons you need to ditch Plex: the horrible app redesign, the multiple security flaws, or the push in to the wonderful world of advertising.

I've had an Apple Watch since they first came out, and I've worn it daily ever since.

I've been having a fun time with a new little music journal app, Crucial Tracks.

There are a lot of great points in this article from Federico Viticci.

...but I did it in 2025, oh no!

I've recently moved my photos to melaniekat.com/pics and my social media posts to melaniekat.com/lol.

Content warning: sexual harassment.

I don't like to start by announcing my commitment to things.

As you may know, I love Hatsune Miku.

Throughout my tech career, people I worked with would often ponder when the next bubble would burst.

When Mastodon was experiencing a blip of popularity in 2018, I learned about this other thing early in development that looked too similar to Instagram.

I never did lose a battle But I'm feeling further from the end of war Deplored, ignored and rarely ever self assured Why does it seem like the ones who have everything have nothing inside?

I made two mistakes I found out after I published my 11ty blog rewrite—apologies to Robb and everyone's feed readers.

I have been a huge fan of Astro ever since it launched.

This year I've migrated to Linux for my primary computer-ing, but I've yet to find any apps I feel particularly strong about.

Happy end-of-year listing to you and yours!

I could have sworn I published a link roundup the day before the US election, but then everything went tits up and I couldn't be bothered to care if I published anything ever again.

I recently spun up my own Bluesky PDS server on Coolify.

I haven't known what to say in the last week, you know, due to (gestures wildly).

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I have two apps published under Girlfriend Technology.

It's been a while since I last showed off my home screens.

Well, I found a stumbling block on Linux.

When I was 13 years old, I waited over a week for my Red Hat Linux ISO file to download.

It was the last day of 1999, and my mother surprised me with an upgrade to my Sega Genesis, a translucent lime green Nintendo 64 with Donkey Kong 64.

Photographer Jedda convinced me to try the screen-free Camp Snap Camera.

I remember around a decade ago when my #gamer coworker introduced me to Discord after attending the first TwitchCon.

Welcome back to Here's Some Links.

Social media companies want you to post more but only want to show ads.

I've used Alfred since January 2011, and I've bought the lifetime license every time they made a new one.

I got some links for you on this lovely Friday the 13th.

The new version of Reeder has decided to do something radical: not sync with dedicated RSS services.

Last night, I wrote a joke on Mastodon that I thought was a funny roast of Cohost users in light of the website shutting down.

Every day there is a new read later app, despite most of them being the same.

I was recently thinking about what got me interested in apps and design were the many websites that featured beautiful apps.

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I believe it was Homer Simpsons who said it best: "Where's my burrito?"

I'm a fan of omg.lol and what Neatnik does in general, so my now page is located over there in omg.lol's now.garden.

In Astro, when you use a UI framework you have the ability to only load the island of JavaScript when it becomes in view of the browser window.

In The First Three Years I mentioned I was interested in hearing other people's pandemic experiences.

Inspired by uses.tech, I have written up my current setup.

I feel like I've been putting off building a public blogroll for a while.