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title: boringcactus (Melody Horn)
description: immortal programming goddess
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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.is/ze/hir?or=it&or=she).

i exist in a lot of places:
- see me retweet nonsense you don't care about on [twitter](https://twitter.com/boring_cactus)
- watch me occasionally stream things on [twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/boringcactus)
- watch various kinds of permanent video content on [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw0N-UmLylMSnCtHZ7vagBw)
- give me money once on [ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/boringcactus) or on an ongoing basis on [patreon](https://www.patreon.com/boringcactus)
- if you must, email me at `melody@<this domain>`

currently, by day i'm a software engineer at the [Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's Customer Technology Department](https://ctd.mbta.com/).
by night i play final fantasy xiv and occasionally 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 posts %}
- [{{ post.title }} ({{ post.date.strftime('%d %b %Y') }})](/{{ post.url }}.md)
{% endfor %}

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