Maddie's Website

Created 2025-11-13, last modified 2026-02-22. Visibility: public

glu some_url 'bash run.sh'

My name's Maddie. I make software, mostly for a living¹, but sometimes for free:

• GLU (makes it easy to run code examples from the internet. Kind of a toy, don't use it on untrusted code)
• Prone (a metaprogramming language that compiles to C)
• Arkive (immutable directory manipulation)
• Dirtabase (immutable directory manipulation - need to better describe how this and Arkive interact)
• spyralizer (deterministic identicon generator, makes pretty default avatars)

Fuller Stack

I do a lot of writing about software too, primarily about Prone.

• No Merit is out now! - More music for the atomic masses.
• Git Outta Here - Some changes under the hood to the hosting on this site.
• Next Year's Model - What an extractive infinite-growth death cult does when planned obsolescence is no longer abusive enough.

Markdown

You can see the original Markdown of any page on this website by fetching it with curl or wget. This is what allows my code examples to work with GLU.

# hello.sh
echo "Hello from maddiem4.cc!"

Try it yourself!

# Either should work correctly.
curl maddiem4.cc
wget maddiem4.cc -q -O -

Friends of the Site

Because I have a love for older, simpler, arguably archaic patterns of how the internet used to work before becoming a primarily commercial space, I'm part of a webring. These used to be very important for navigating the internet before Google, but now they're more for fun - although it can still be a good way to discover new indie websites you never would have seen otherwise!

CHARLOTTEWORLD Webring!

Other neat things on here:

• Mad science with coffee.
• I write music.
• I also write novels, except in the sense that I'm bad at finishing them.