👋 HELLO.

My name is Melroy.

I’m a software engineer & DevOps engineer with a lot of passion for my profession. Love supporting open-source projects in my free time. I also like to work on my own projects and ideas. Furthermore, I host my own server.

My hobbies are crypto ₳₿, photography📸, inline-skating🛼 and nature🌲.

Visit my blog and my Mastodon.

Projects

Active Projects:

🔮 Mbin - Federated Reddit alternative (contributor / creator)
🍷 WineGUI - A user-friendly WINE manager for GNU/Linux (creator)
🔍 Bitcoin Cash Explorer - Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Block & Mempool Explorer (creator)
🕵 Fake user-agent - User-agent faker with real world database (maintainer)
🎮 GNU/Linux game search - Search & download GNU/Linux games (creator)
💰 MoneyTips - Tips on money matters, personal finance and investing (creator)
📈 Stock index bot - S&P500 + VIX index bot notifier🔔 for Telegram channel (creator)
₿ Crypto bot - Crypto bot notifier🔔 for Telegram channel (creator)
🌟 Metacritic API - PHP Metacrtic API (creator)
🔖 SaveFavo - Saving your bookmarks (Dutch only) (creator)

WIP Projects:

I’m currently working on my open-source work-in-progress projects:

🌍 LibreWeb - Decentralized Web Browser (cross-platform)
Independent Search engine + crawler (no metasearch engine)

Closed-source private projects:

RetroMessenger (WIP) - Recreating MSN Messenger from the ground-up and cross-platform with the latest technologies.
CryptoTerminal (WIP)
Trading Bot
ERP system

Services

I offer free services world-wide hosted on my server:

🔮 Mbin - ActivityPub Reddit alternative
🦣 Mastodon - ActivityPub Twitter alternative
⎇ GitLab - Online DevOps-tool
🗣 Mumble - VoIP server
💬 Element Chat - Decentralized chat client using the Matrix protocol, see also Matrix server
⛅ Nextcloud - File hosting server @home (ask for an account)
⏱ Wekan - KanBan board / To-do manager
🖼 PlantUML - Text-based UML server
🔍 ReviewBoard - ReviewBoard - code / document review tool

Contact

You can reach me in several ways; email me, plan a call, or chat via:

Note: I do NOT use Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook, Reddit, Meta, Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok. Follow me on Mastodon instead.