Melanie Kat

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@melaniekat.com

Senior Front-End Engineer

PortlandOregonUnited States🇺🇸

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Hi, my name is Melanie! My pronouns are she/her.I am a passionate front-end engineer who loves JavaScript, CSS, solid APIs, and collaborative remote environments. Do I sound like someone you would like to work with? Let’s talk.

Publications: 100

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Portland Indie Game Squad

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Jun 2024

Enabling iMessage Contact Verification Keys

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May 2024

That site you use is dead

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May 2024

Hosting Mastodon and Pixelfed

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May 2024

3 Observations on Portland

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May 2024

My Interests

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May 2024

Here's Some Links, May 6, 2024

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May 2024

April Home Screens

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Apr 2024

How I Set Up My Travel Router with Tailscale's Mullvad Exit Nodes

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Apr 2024

Embrace the JSON Feed

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Apr 2024

My Final Week in San Francisco

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Apr 2024

Mario Mario vs Mario

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Apr 2024

My Rule of Thumb for Buying Apple Stuff

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Mar 2024

Here's Some Links, Mar 27, 2024

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Mar 2024

How to Read a News Website

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Mar 2024

My Decade in San Francisco

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Mar 2024

Hosting the Jamstack

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Mar 2024

Here's Some Links, Mar 4, 2024

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Mar 2024

A Podcast of Articles and Text

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Jan 2024

Apps I Use

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Jan 2024

My 2023 in Games

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Dec 2023

My 2023 in Films

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Dec 2023

Here's Some Links, Sep 2, 2023

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Sep 2023

Here's Some Links, Apr 2, 2023

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Apr 2023

Last.fm to Mastodon Profile

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Mar 2023

My Essential Apps

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Feb 2023

Here's Some Links, Feb 16, 2023

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Feb 2023

Lil Gator Game

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Dec 2022

My 2022 in Media

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Dec 2022

Girlfriend Technology, July Update

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Jul 2022

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

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May 2022

Commute

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Apr 2022

The DankPods Headphone Starter Guide.

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Apr 2022

I rewrote my blog with Astro

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Mar 2022

X to Y

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Dec 2021

Magnet Links

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Dec 2021

look what you made me do: a lot of people have asked me to make NFT games and I won’t

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Nov 2021

Webbed - Sbug Games

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Sep 2021

Is the Oculus Rift sexist?

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Aug 2021

Heroku removes SMS as an MFA Verification Method

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Jun 2021

A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16

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Mar 2021

Gaming's endless struggle with abusive men

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Mar 2021

Medium Workers Union (MWU)

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Feb 2021

Kalidoface - Become a Virtual Character

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Jan 2021

An overview of Polish nonbinary pronouns

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Dec 2020

React Aria

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Nov 2020

The Business of Selling White Women the Righteousness of Their Own Anger

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Nov 2020

Is Madeline Canonically Trans?

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Nov 2020

A Spooky Adventure at Next.js Conf

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Oct 2020

【雪ミク】「アイ / DECO*27 feat.初音ミク」【踊ってみた

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Oct 2020

If Found

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Sep 2020

No Masters

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Sep 2020

Fall Guys Secrets - A Super Serious Lore Interview

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Sep 2020

Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like `jwt.io` and Online JSON Validators

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Sep 2020

Women Make

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Aug 2020

ink - 🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

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Aug 2020

Ooblets

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Aug 2020

Boop: the Scriptable Scratchpad.

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Jul 2020

Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills

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Jul 2020

This blog is now open source

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Jun 2020

DeepL Translate

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Jun 2020

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ pitch tracker for femme voices

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Jun 2020

Video Games Have To Reckon With How They Depict The Police

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Jun 2020

‘Neopets’: Inside Look at Early 2000s Internet Girl Culture

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Jun 2020

Disability is not good for Facebook says: ‘Facebook’.

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May 2020

TikTok Admits It Suppressed Videos by Disabled, Queer, and Fat Creators

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May 2020

TikTok Told Moderators: Suppress Posts by the “Ugly” and Poor

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May 2020

Quick Assist in Windows 10

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May 2020

LumaFusion

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May 2020

My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site

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Apr 2020

Looking At Guns In Virtual Reality

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Apr 2020

~80% of Steam games earn under $5K in first two weeks

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Apr 2020

No one makes a living on Patreon

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Apr 2020

Visual Studio Live Share

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Mar 2020

Adam Ruins Everything - Why People Think Video Games Are Just for Boys

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Mar 2020

No girls allowed

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Mar 2020

Amazonians United Wins PTO for all Amazon Workers

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Mar 2020

Nintendo explains philosophy behind Animal Crossing’s big changes, such as gender expression and terraforming

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Mar 2020

App Developers at Glitch Vote To Form Union

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Mar 2020

Rage Against The M FEAT.Hatsune Miku

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Mar 2020

corellium/projectsandcastle

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Mar 2020

The Curious Worldview of Michael Schur's Television

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Mar 2020

What the Font?! A Manga Guide to Western Typeface

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Feb 2020

Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos

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Feb 2020

Kickstarter Employees Win Historic Union Election

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Feb 2020

Blizzard's Long History of Manic Pixie Nightmare Girls and Fear of Women

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Feb 2020

A Short Hike

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Feb 2020

Well it's an essay about Jon

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Feb 2020

one night, hot springs

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Feb 2020

The Pious World of Christian Sonic the Hedgehog Fan Art

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Feb 2020

Hatsune Miku Project DIVA MEGA39

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Feb 2020

Website Carbon Calculator

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Feb 2020

Pocari Sweat and Hatsune Miku want you to stay hydrated 「Nechusho No!No! feat. 初音ミク＆MEIKO」

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Feb 2020

SIMON WECKERT: Google Maps Hack

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Feb 2020

It Took Nearly 10 Years to Finish ‘Kentucky Route Zero,’ But It’s Done

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Jan 2020

'Kentucky Route Zero' Pays Off on Nine Years of Hope and Doubt

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Jan 2020

Playdate Pop Up - Welcome to 2020

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Jan 2020

Rae the Doe

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Jan 2020

Melanie Kat

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Jan 2020

My 2019 in Media

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Dec 2019

Skills: 35

Creative

Adobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopFigma (Software)Sketch AppUser Experience (UX)User Interface DesignWeb Design

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11tyApollo GraphQLCascading Style Sheets (CSS)eleventyFront-End DesignFront-End DevelopmentGitGitHub

GraphQLHTMLJavaScriptJestMercurialMicrosoft Visual Studio CodeNext.jsNode.jsPHPPython (Programming Language)React NativeReact.jsRuby on RailsSvelteSwift (Programming Language)Tailwind CSSTest-Driven DevelopmentTypeScriptVue.jsWeb Development

Languages: 1

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