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Coding Cait

@cait@anarres.family

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Coder by day. Cottagecore bogwitch by night.

Day job: full stack, but partial towards .NET and Azure. Hobbies: crafting, crochet, model-building and anything to do with trains.

Based usually somewhere in England or Wales, depending on the day of the week.

Deeply in love with @RoseyPosey@anarres.family

Known for being a sexy prongle queen

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265 Followers

419 Following

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Joined October 15, 2025

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · 3d ago

Tomorrow, is the moon going to sail safely past the sun? Not if she clips it

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · 3d ago

Replying to @sashag@anarres.family

Rant about authentication methods Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

@sashag@anarres.family the counterargument is that historically, random small sites using username/password auth are more likely to have credential leaks

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Aug 05, 2026

Replying to @biplanepilot@poweredbygay.social

@biplanepilot@poweredbygay.social I just learned this and I'm angry now!

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to on tech.lgbt

MH Treatment Mention, Kink Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

@CaptMikeYates@tech.lgbt you want to... get a motorbike license? 🤔🤭

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Aug 03, 2026

Replying to @Unixbigot@aus.social

@Unixbigot@aus.social fuck yeah! (It's before 6am and I haven't had enough coffee to write a good pun on "turning", imagine I've put one here)

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Aug 02, 2026

Replying to @LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot

@LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot Surely the obvious would just be "The Locomotion" @feorag@wandering.shop

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 31, 2026

The temptation to write a movie script containing only the Scheria section of The Odyssey. It wouldn't be a grand epic full of warfare, but it would be *interesting*

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 29, 2026

Silly, implied lewd, possibly misogynistic quizzes Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

How did someone with as much horn as me not get "unicorn"

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @cait@anarres.family

@ciara@anarres.family @thejessiekirk@ohai.social Not one but TWO tapes for the expanded-memory ZX81; Psion Chess (and "Chess-Clock" on one and various games on the other

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to on anarres.family

@ciara@anarres.family Ooh I found I still own a genuine ZX81 software tape, I should send it somewhere for posterity @thejessiekirk@ohai.social

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @eta@gotosocial.i.eta.st

@eta@gotosocial.i.eta.st I thought I was the only person in South Wales who followed the M48 temporary speed limit! @hugh@social.crablab.uk

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 28, 2026

Replying to @sarahdal@crispsandwi.ch

@sarahdal@crispsandwi.ch oh wow!

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 28, 2026

DID YOU KNOW: The technical term for someone who studies the science behind painful sensations is an owwcademic

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to on anarres.family

@aisling@anarres.family I honestly didn't think they did - is it new since the May timetable change? @olivvybee@beehive.city

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @olivvybee@beehive.city

@olivvybee@beehive.city the TOCs operating between Newcastle and Edinburgh are LNER (the majority of services) CrossCountry, and Lumo

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to on anarres.family

@aisling@anarres.family aww thank you!

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @ordinal@mas.to

@ordinal@mas.to Counterexample: Mitchells Versus The Machines, which has a femme-coded antagonistic AI @pseudonym@mastodon.online @leafygreens@meow.social @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 27, 2026

I deserve a reward: I saw people posting confident but wrong "facts" about the British rail system on Fedi and resisted the temptation to correct them

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 26, 2026

"Arrr, me hearties! I was up in the crow's nest with my spyglass trained on that there Madagascan jungle, and reckon I saw myself some sort of nocturnal lemur! Does any of you sorry excuse for a ship's crew know what sort of animal it was I could be seeing?' "Aye aye, Captain!"

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 26, 2026

LLMs, the Discourse Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

Hearing about the latest Discourse swayed me into action... ...to open an account on Codeberg and migrate my currently-active open person project onto it

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 26, 2026

Replying to on wikis.world

@LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world I love the little disused railway line on I think the first floor? It was put in to move big exhibits about

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 26, 2026

Replying to @nicopap@tooting.ch

@nicopap@tooting.ch what locations can your colleagues be based in?

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 26, 2026

Replying to @olivvybee@beehive.city

@olivvybee@beehive.city the worst I've found is a YouTube rip of the early 80s documentary "A Lineside Look At Model Railways" which has the audio at a different speed to the video so they end up hugely out of sync

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 24, 2026

Cats really struggle with using a tape deck because they can only press the paws button

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 23, 2026

Replying to @luckytran@mastodon.social

@luckytran@mastodon.social "just the tip of the iceberg (lettuce)"

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 20, 2026

DID YOU KNOW: Before the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japanese-made computers only supported Edo RAM

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 19, 2026

Reasons I feel a bit Cassandra-ish, part 94: Saying for about 20 years that PostgreSQL is the best SQL DB for most use cases. The rest of the world I think finally started agreeing after it became easily available in Azure. Circa 2015 I took over running an AWS-hosted system which had been designed to use two RDS databases, one MySQL, for the majority of the data, and one PostgreSQL with PostGIS, for one single query that mapped position coordinates to timezone. And most of the devs my team were taking over from... didn't really even understand what PostgreSQL *was*, or why they were using it, other than it being a magic box for this one TZ query. Certainly they had no idea they could have consolidated on a single RDS for everything by dropping MySQL. (Partly that was because That One Query was written *really, really* badly: when I took over, it was the biggest bottleneck in the system. After I touched it, that query sped up like x20)

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 17, 2026

Replying to @jess@blop.social

@jess@blop.social I could swear I did follow him on Fedi at one time! Can't find him now though

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 17, 2026

In the office building where I work, the reception desk has a stack of complimentary copies of the magazine "The Secretary" I have to say, at a glance, it looks *very* different to the movie

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 16, 2026

Replying to on dice.camp

re: Vaginoplasty details Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

@miriamrobern@dice.camp My electrologist told me a horror story about a patient whose surgeon had told her they didn't require it, but then didn't do the job properly during the op, so the patient came to her afterwards asking for the best cleanup she could do in the circumstances afterwards @CharlotteEowyn@chaosfem.tw @Tattie@eldritch.cafe @jrdepriest@infosec.exchange

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 15, 2026

Replying to on tech.lgbt

@LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt Ooh this is interesting - I have experience with the European sector where it's essentially very similar but the "regional" organisations - some of which operate over multiple nations - operate the trading market between energy producers and supply companies. Although in theory the markets can run their market how they like, in practice it's quite tightly constrained by European rules to minimise the amount of power transferred over cross-border interconnect, which in practice puts quite tight constraints on how the regional markets can operate and what types of bids the market participants can place. My favourite bit is that the algorithm that implements these rules is called "Euphemia" - some work must have gone into engineering that algorithm! @brass75@twit.social

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 15, 2026

Replying to @JamesWidman@mastodon.social

@JamesWidman@mastodon.social the bit "there's no evidence anyone does this" is telling - there's never any evidence if you shut your eyes I sometimes use Welsh for variable names - I'm not even fluent, but it's a good way to improve my fluency (Ironically Welsh is poorly-served by Unicode: the language has its own distinct, well-defined alphabet with unique letters, but those letters are written as digraphs - dd, ll, ng are some examples - so they've never, to my knowledge, been admitted to Unicode as code points)

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 12, 2026

Random thought about the differing terminology of "folder" and "directory" when referring to files stems "Folder" refers to the data structure, as an end user uses it "Directory refers to the data structure as the operating system uses it

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 12, 2026

Replying to @RoseyPosey@anarres.family

@RoseyPosey@anarres.family when you go to the zoo to see the sealions, but they're just seals with an electric charge

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 08, 2026

One advantage of moving my teach-myself-Rust project to Codeberg: If it's on Codeberg, it's self-evidently non-AI, and the code being bad is purely my own fault!

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 06, 2026

Replying to @JustFi@beige.party

@JustFi@beige.party ooohh... is it Rosalind Franklin?

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jul 06, 2026

Every time a trans femme posts about facial feminising surgery, my brain reads "FFS" the other way "wow, everyone who gets that surgery gets really pissed off by it!"

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Jun 15, 2026

I don't use hashtags, I use friedpotatotags (serious question: does anyone else remember British Telecom using "square" as the name of the # sign when DTMF dialling was introduced to the UK? Please tell me I didn't imagine it)

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · May 31, 2026

Replying to on anarres.family

@aisling@anarres.family now that one was a winner

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · May 29, 2026

Lesbians planning a trip to Germany: "can't we go to Frauheim instead?"

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · May 29, 2026

Replying to @nflux@gts.exile.social

@nflux@gts.exile.social goals

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · May 08, 2026

"I need to run this regex-replace against every line in your file" "Yeah, that's what she sed"

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social

@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social ooh I remember a company used to produce signalling simulations written with that - PC Rail maybe?

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @olivvybee@beehive.city

@olivvybee@beehive.city jest is horrible, fair

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @olivvybee@beehive.city

@olivvybee@beehive.city you have clearly been watching the video that @RoseyPosey@anarres.family said I should watch! (fun fact: there's a 1.8m bridge warning sign I know of, at Bishton level crossing)

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Apr 20, 2026

Did you know, at the animal university, different species tend to specialise in different areas of science or medicine

For example, brain research often takes place on the hippo campus

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Apr 19, 2026

How to tell the difference between crows that are into punk rock, and crows that are not into punk rock:

The crows that are into punk rock have a really hard "caw"

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Apr 16, 2026

A new model train arrived yesterday and I haven't had chance to get it out of the box yet

Now I have the frustration of working at home all day, knowing I have a new model train that I haven't taken out of the box yet

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Apr 16, 2026

Someone said to me: "ever since I went on HRT I've felt like it would be a good idea to get my own licensed fool. You know, like a medieval queen, have a guy in a funny hat telling jokes and speaking truth to power"

"You know why that is?" said I. "That's the effect of the projesterone"

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Coding Cait @cait@anarres.family · Apr 15, 2026

"How do I look today?"

"Sexy... with a capital seven!"

@RoseyPosey@anarres.family

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