Melissa :verified_trans:​

Gamedev, musician, trans. Making games, audio plugins, and a bunch of Trackmania stuff. Secretly a cat. I have too many hobbies.

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Blog: https://codecat.nl
Music: https://missterious.net
GitHub: https://github.com/codecat
Itch: https://nimble.itch.io
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/codecatt
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/missterious
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XSYpClfsnAWG2cY0S6OOO
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/codecat

Last Notes

2026-04-20 13:05:45 GMT

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 😅
https://codeberg.org/codecat/forgejo-refined
#forgejo #codeberg
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2026-03-27 18:29:17 GMT

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Oh wow, I did not know you could do this! 👀 When federation does eventually come around, is it planned for forges that are set up like this to "migrate" painlessly?
(Sorry if this is a dumb question. I am not sure how this stuff is set up.)

2026-02-16 23:54:57 GMT

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 start and will hopefully replace the third party project at some point 👍

2025-12-31 12:12:29 GMT

Well, 2025 is coming to an end, so I would like to give programmers a bit of advice for 2026.
- The AI bubble is bursting. Quit coding with AI and get your skill back and actually learn and understand what you're doing instead of half-assing your work. (The amount of extremely poorly "written" AI generated code by first time programmers that I've seen this year is actually insane. Let's hope that 2026 will be less of that. I have hope y'all.)
- Stop saying your code is "good enough"; try perfectionism instead! Think about why your code is the way it is and if you can do it better, and then apply it retroactively in your older code as well.
- Consider contributing more to open source projects; find something in a library/program that you don't like? Fix it yourself and submit it as a PR! (Take your time to do it right - seriously, nobody's rushing you on this.) Additionally, file a well documented issue and ask how you can help to fix it. (Optionally, open source projects are underfunded - consider donating to projects you rely on.)
- Being versatile in multiple programming languages and subject domains is *extremely* valuable. See also the above point. Try new things, read documentation, read source code, learn a thing or two.
Okay bye :neocat:
#programming #opensource #foss

2024-05-23 08:59:43 GMT

If I knew #fedivision was a thing I might have actually tried something 😭 maybe next year 🧐