I’m Melanie Kat
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I am a passionate front-end engineer who loves JavaScript, CSS, solid APIs, and collaborative remote environments. I am not looking for the next fad. I’m not looking for companies that speculate in the legally dubious artificial intelligence or crypto industry. I’m looking to make an impact at a company that will be around after a year when the VC funding starts to dry up on these things.
I’m here to make the web a better place, not strip-mine it for short term profit. I’m here to make a positive difference in real people’s life, not sell those lives to the lowest bidder.
Do I sound like someone you would like to work with? Let’s talk.
- @zicklepop@nyan.lol post
Wed, Aug 14, 2024 idk everyone, if the uk says a website is too racist for them it must be really *really* bad
- weekly last.fm report
Sun, Aug 11, 2024 Top Artists
- Jack White (101 plays)
- Sophie Powers (61 plays)
- Porter Robinson (35 plays)
- Ravenna Golden (17 plays)
- Porter Robinson & Frost Children (4 plays)
Top Albums
- no name by Jack White (101 plays)
- Glitch: Lvl 1 by Sophie Powers (61 plays)
- SMILE! :D by Porter Robinson (39 plays)
- Ms. Genius by Ravenna Golden (15 plays)
- Beyond the way - Single by Giga (2 plays)
Top Tracks
- Archbishop Harold Holmes by Jack White (8 plays)
- Bless Yourself by Jack White (8 plays)
- Bombing Out by Jack White (8 plays)
- It's Rough On Rats (If You're Asking) by Jack White (8 plays)
- Missionary by Jack White (8 plays)
- Vivi's Experience with Covid
Sun, Aug 11, 2024 In The First Three Years I mentioned I was interested in hearing other people's pandemic experiences. My wife has wrote about her experience with COVID and trying to adjust to a new country.
- @melanie@status.lol post
Sat, Aug 10, 2024 🧚 Finished reading “A Court of Thorns and Roses” - The Instigators, 2024
Sat, Aug 10, 2024 
Watched on Friday August 9, 2024.
- The Disruptors, 2024
Thu, Aug 8, 2024 
Watched on Wednesday August 7, 2024.
- Looking for Ms. Locklear, 2008
Wed, Aug 7, 2024 
Watched on Wednesday August 7, 2024.
- Tom Walker: Very Very, 2020
Wed, Aug 7, 2024 
Watched on Tuesday August 6, 2024.
- @links@nyan.lol post
Tue, Aug 6, 2024 
“‘You are a helpful mail assistant,’ and other Apple Intelligence instructions”
Telling your bullshit machine “Do not hallucinate” is some massive amounts of cringe.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/5/24213861/apple-intelligence-instructions-macos-15-1-sequoia-beta
- @zicklepop@nyan.lol post
Tue, Aug 6, 2024 omg i'm catching up on my backlog of articles to read and aaa thanks for the shoutout @anniegreens !!
https://social.lol/@anniegreens/112895374673266082 - @melanie@status.lol post
Mon, Aug 5, 2024 📜 i still don't like handling rss feeds in javascript - @zicklepop@nyan.lol post
Mon, Aug 5, 2024 
oh @cory found a new AI bot to block? time to run my `bun-no-ai` script so Bunny CDN can block them at the edge level.
https://paste.melanie.lol/bunny-ai-blocking.js - weekly last.fm report
Sun, Aug 4, 2024 Top Artists
- Jack White (91 plays)
- Porter Robinson (74 plays)
- Sophie Powers (15 plays)
- Porter Robinson & Frost Children (9 plays)
- Less Than Jake (3 plays)
Top Albums
- no name by Jack White (91 plays)
- SMILE! :D by Porter Robinson (83 plays)
- Glitch: Lvl 1 by Sophie Powers (15 plays)
- Walking Pipebomb - Single by Less Than Jake (3 plays)
- idola by Momoiro Clover Z (2 plays)
Top Tracks
- KNOCK YOURSELF OUT XD by Porter Robinson (10 plays)
- Easier To Love You by Porter Robinson (9 plays)
- Is There Really No Happiness? by Porter Robinson (9 plays)
- Mona Lisa by Porter Robinson & Frost Children (9 plays)
- Cheerleader by Porter Robinson (8 plays)
- MaXXXine, 2024
Sat, Aug 3, 2024 
Watched on Friday August 2, 2024.
- My Blogroll
Sat, Aug 3, 2024 I feel like I've been putting off building a public blogroll for a while. Part of what has helped me to just do it is this post from Keenan about getting rid of their blogroll. I sympathized with it quite a bit. Blogrolls are inherently messy, but so am I. I decided to approach this by just exporting my blog category in Feedbin and doing very little filtering to it. Some of these blogs may have not been updated in quite a while and I'm just wanting to keep an eye out if something were to pop up.
- @zicklepop@nyan.lol post
Sat, Aug 3, 2024 can't believe someone who still has a twitter account is a bigoted piece of shit
- @links@nyan.lol post
Fri, Aug 2, 2024 
"Inside Apple Arcade (again): late payments, stonewalled studios, terrible tech support and Vision Pro woes - Mobilegamer"
I wrote about how releasing software on an app store is harder than building apps. I suppose I wasn't being harsh enough.
- @melanie@status.lol post
Fri, Aug 2, 2024 📘 Finished reading "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" — pretty good. - @zicklepop@nyan.lol post
Fri, Aug 2, 2024 all stories that take place in the united states have an implied chekhov’s gun
- Bigger! With Brennan and Izzy, 2024
Thu, Aug 1, 2024 
Watched on Thursday July 25, 2024.
- In Bruges, 2008
Tue, Jul 30, 2024 
Watched on Monday July 29, 2024.
- @melanie@status.lol post
Tue, Jul 30, 2024 😝 There is a great new Porter Robinson album and a great new Jack White album. - Indie Devs, Not Apple, Made iOS and macOS a Success
Tue, Jul 30, 2024 
Apple has made a lot of partnerships with big companies like Quantum Computer Services (AOL), Microsoft, HP, Intel, Cingular (AT&T), Epic Games, Valve, Capcom, and Ubisoft. They are all pretty one-sided in terms of who benefits. Focusing on these partnerships distracts from what has made Apple's platforms successful: the community of dedicated indie developers. But like their corporate partnerships, this relationship is not a healthy one.
- A Cure for Wellness, 2016
Mon, Jul 29, 2024 
Watched on Sunday July 28, 2024.
