🦆👋 A duck enthusiast gone quack.
Hello there, the name’s Mike Renaker, but you can call me MikeDEV.
❔ About me
Pronouns (if you obsess about them)
he/him/they/them.
Race
Just a boiling pot white guy. I’m part 🇺🇸 American, 🇵🇭 Filipino, 🇩🇪 German, 🇮🇪 Irish, and 🇪🇸 Spanish.
💬 Political alignment
I’m a politicaly uninterested 🐘 conservative. I live by a neutral perspective.
🖥️ Operating Systems connoisseur
- 🪟 Windows (Primary workstation OS)
- 🍎 macOS (Casual OS)
- 🐧 Linux (Home lab/Server OS)
📜 My Education
- High School Alumni - Class of 2022
- College Sophomore - Class of 2026
📱 I have too many smartphones
- Google Pixel 6 (Primary)
- Google Pixel 5a (Backup)
- OnePlus N200 5G (Now my brother’s phone)
- Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (Just for fun)
- A dollar store Coolpad (Useless)
- TMobile Revvl (Useless)
- LG G4 (Fixed but slow af)
👨💻 Programming languages
- 🐈 Scratch (2015-2022)
- 🐍 Python (2018-Current)
- 🟨 Javascript (2019-Current)
- 🟦 C++ (2022-2023)
- 🟦 GoLang (2023-Current)
🤔 Things that interest me
- 🎮 Vintage arcade machines
- 🦆 Ducks
- 🇯🇵 Japanese culture
- 👾 Scifi
- 💻 Retro/vintage computing
- 🎵 Lofi
- 🔌 Electronics / electrical engineering (Thanks alot, Electroboom)
🛠️ Projects
Current
🐈 Meower
Meower is a nonprofit, free and open-source social media platform with humor, friendliness, and privacy in mind. Our ultimate goal is to create a place that’s ethical for it’s users and convenient to use.
My primary role in Meower is to function as it’s Chief Executive Officer. I also take care of content moderation, backend development, cybersecurity, infrastructure maintenance, and systems administration. I used to be a frontend developer, I made possible the original Meower client: Meower-Vanilla. I’ve retired as a Scratch programmer, and this client is retiring as well.
🌐 CloudLink
Cloudlink was my first major project. In short, it is a websocket protocol designed for use with Scratch 3.0 modded IDEs. The original backend is written in Python, and the client is written using Javascript as a Scratch 3.0 extension. When I joined Meower, it also became a major part of Meower’s history.
Archived
@Voxalice hosts an archive of a bunch of my old Scratch projects. You can check out the archive here.
Github Shoutouts
- Snakeware - This is a complete Linux Distro designed to run only Python! It’s a bit slow and some functionality is left to be desired, but it’s really cool!
- BubbleDrive8 - A Bubble Software cartridge emulator for the Konami Bubble System (my favorite arcade machine)!
- stm-bmc - A Bubble Memory controller made using modern electronics!