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Meow Mrrp Mrrp

Meow! Mau mrrp mrrp meow. Meow meow meow~

GSoC 2025: Building Libretto, a Matrix Archiver

A recap of my Google Summer of Code 2025 project to build Libretto, a native Matrix chat archiver for MetaBrainz, detailing the journey, the achievements, and what's next.

Colour

Avoidance, practicality and expression. IndieWeb Carnival August 2025

AI Can't Help You Write Well

Writing is hard. Prompting an LLM is easy. What the LLM outputs is near worthless.

Let's Talk About Policy Servers

How Continuwuity's new Policy Server support helps filter unwanted content, creating a cleaner and safer chat experience for everyone.

Gearing Up for a Summer of Code (Again!): GSoC 2025 Acceptance

Announcing my acceptance into Google Summer of Code 2025, where I'll be working on a Matrix Archiver project for MetaBrainz!

Actually stopping AI scrapers from taking down my server

Preventing aggressive scraper bots from impacting my forgejo instance

Reducing Forgejo Scraping

Reduce the impact of bad bots scraping Forgejo using robots.txt

GSoC 2024 - New Email Service with Internationalization

The MusicBrainz project sends thousands of emails every day to its diverse contributors. However, the existing email system was limited, having organically grown over the project's lifetime. It could only send emails in English, and only in plain text. The experience that new contributors got could only be described as unfriendly. The overarching goal of my proposal was to improve this.

That Blue Text – a Link Is Not Authenticity

As digital denizens, we read more than ever before. From news and forums to comments and blog posts, what we read online informs our decisions and actions. But as we read much-needed information, we must decide what is trustworthy – and what is not.

The Potential Pitfalls of Pagination

Pagination is a core part of many APIs, but many methods have hidden pitfalls. This post explores these common issues.