🦆👋 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

1. 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!
2. BubbleDrive8 - A Bubble Software cartridge emulator for the Konami Bubble System (my favorite arcade machine)!
3. stm-bmc - A Bubble Memory controller made using modern electronics!

Wanna chat?

• Email: mike@meower.org
• Meower: here
• Discord: @MikeDEV
• YouTube: Here