--- layout: default title: boringcactus (Melody Horn) description: immortal programming goddess date: null eleventyImport: collections: ["post"] --- 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](/projects/). my pronouns are [ze/hir or it/its, or, if you absolutely must for some reason, she/her](https://pronoun.gdn/ze/hir?or=it&or=she). i exist in a lot of places:
currently, by day i’m a software engineer at the [Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Customer Technology Department](https://ctd.mbta.com/). by night i am the proprietrix of [Somnolent Succulent Studio LLC](https://somnolentsucculent.studio), 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: {% for post in collections.post reversed %} {% unless post.data.unlisted %} - [{{ post.data.title }} ({{ post.date | date: "%d %b %Y", "Etc/UTC" }})]({{ post.url }}) {% endunless %} {% endfor %} [![Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License](https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) The content of this website is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).