Hi! I'm Mélusine.

I'm a random computer toucher from somewhere around Europe. (take a guess!)
I like trains. A lot.
I can also quit out of vim, but chose to stay regardless. It's comfy here.

Projects

Borders

Aggregating border check counts of a few entities living in the Schengen zone.
Uses golang and sqlite.

Meta

This website! Made entirely by hand.

Various golang libraries

Mostly simple stuff that I end up using in other projects - or even just thought experiments!
Only a few examples, there are probably more of them by now.
  • argon2id: Utility around x/crypto/argon2, mostly for convenience.
  • envconfig: Fill structs with value from the environment, using struct tags.

Dubious Doohickeys and Chaotic Contraptions

Some are made to fill a debugging or processing need, most of them are just made to see if it works and for fun.
  • reqpile: Listens for HTTP requests on a given port, dumps the request contents out on STDOUT and replies with 204 No Content
  • netmeow: Something somewhat like netcat, since it was faster to do this than figuring out some netcat tool for a windows VM with network but no internet access.
  • ssg: An approximation of a static site generator, using rust. It was used to generate a previous version of this homepage, along with a small blog part, that only ever had two articles.
  • printmeow: Takes in an image, a host and a port over the cli, resizes the image and dithers it, and sends it to the specified host and port over ESC/POS receipt printer protocol. Slapped together at GPN23 with some after-the facts mild improvements.

Buttons

My button

Mélusine's 88x31 button. It has a white background, with a part of a grey locomotive. An orange line goes across the locomotive. It is used to spell the S of 'mélusine'
This is the second version, as a refinement of the first version. It shows a french BB22200 locomotive (from alstom), in "Gris Béton" livery. The swoosh of the orange line is used to make the "s" of "mélusine". I must say the contrast on the text is iffy at a distance. Thats a further improvement to make.

Here is the first version, for legacy's sake. It is a drawing of the same locomotive, but in full this time. "MLSN" is written in blue on the side.
Mélusine's 88x31 button. It has a cream background, with a grey and orange locomotive. Superimposed over the locomotive is MLSN in blue italic text

Embedding the (new) button Entities are more than welcome to embed the button. Be sure to tell mel so it can be excited about it!
<a href="https://mlsn.fr" target="_blank"><img src="https://mlsn.fr/images/button-v2.png" alt="mlsn.fr 88 by 31 button" /></a>
Side note: to use the old button instead, replace button-v2.png with button-v1.png in the image source URL.

Friendly entities

Button of Soblow Xaselgio

Other cool buttons

parody of a w3c markup check button, saying it is bad parody of a w3c markup button, saying CSS is hard logo of GPN23 'hidden patterns', event from Entropia in Karlsruhe in 2025

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