👋 Hello, I’m Melroy van den Berg.

Welcome to melroy.org, my personal corner of the web. I’m Melroy van den Berg, a professional Software Engineer from the Netherlands. I spend much of my time building high-quality software and contributing to the open-source ecosystem.

I’m the lead developer behind several active projects:

• Mbin - A federated Reddit alternative.
• WineGUI - A user-friendly WINE manager for GNU/Linux.
• BCH Explorer - Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Block & Mempool Explorer

In my professional career, I’ve developed a wide range of applications and services. I also host my own server and infrastructure using a private mini datacenter at home. I hate Wikipedia, Facebook, WhatsApp and Discord.

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

Also read my blog. Follow me on Mastodon and/or Mbin.

If you wish to support my open-source work, look at my donation / sponsor page.

Software Projects by Melroy

Below is a selection of active open-source projects developed by Melroy van den Berg:

• 🔮 Mbin - Federated Reddit alternative (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 (creator)
• 🎮 GNU/Linux game search - Search & download GNU/Linux games (creator)
• 🤓 Dot files - My dot files and scripts
• 💰 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 since 2005 (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
• Trading Bot
• ERP system

Services hosted by Melroy

I offer various free services worldwide, hosted on my own infrastructure (Melroy’s mini datacenter):

• 🔮 Mbin - ActivityPub Reddit alternative
• 🦣 Mastodon - ActivityPub Twitter alternative
• ⎇ GitLab - Online DevOps-tool (ask for an account)
• 🗣 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 Melroy

You can reach me in several ways; email me, plan a call with Melroy van den Berg, or chat via:

Note: I do NOT use Twitter/X, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Discord or TikTok. However, you can follow me on Mastodon or Mbin instead.