Sigma Sternchen

(Code Fairy / Witch)

A manga-style drawing of airl with white skin, long black hair, dark eyes. She is looking to the side as if lost in thought, slightly smiling, and playing with a strand of her hair. She's wearing heaphones, glasses, and a purplish T-shirt with the block text 'Σ*' on it.

Level	[redacted]
Health Points	58
Magic Points	52
Strength	33
Dexterity	56
Constition	53
Intelligence	90
Wisdom	78
Charisma	62

*) I didn't make these numbers up - they are the average of how my friends see me.

Hi there!

I'm Sigma, a strange, suspiciously majestic nerd from Germany - and most definitely not a catgirl, nya!

Here's some basic info about me:

Key	Value
Name	Sigma Sternchen
Pronouns	she/her
Languages	SCHMETTERLING 😠, butterfly 🥰
Location	At the time of writting: In bed.
Occupation	Computer whisperer - sometimes they even obey.
Education	I once got an F in computer science. No, really.
Certificates	not-a-catgirl-online.pem

My Interests

Puters

My big passion are computers. I work in software development, and even in my spare time I love tinkering with hard- and software. I'm especially interested in computer languages, programming paradigms, databases, communication protocols and the like. If you want to see some of my stuff, scroll down to my weird projects or just visit my GitHub profile.

Some more facts:

I mainly use GNU/Linux (Fedora, Arch, Debian) and macOS. But I also have a few boxes with FreeBSD derivates, like TrueNAS Core and pfSense.
The programming languages I use most are: Java, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, C, Golang
Currently I'm trying to get into Gleam - a fascinating language.
My favorite micro controller is ESP8266. It's cheap and has all the features I usually need.
According to my friends I do more networking/infra stuff than is normal for a software developer. I'm not very good at it though.
I hate OSPF with a passion. It has cost me so, so much time. "Damn it! The hello packets are arriving, why is this neighbor still stuck in the init state."

Here you can find my computer setup, in case you are interested.

Music

Besides technology my main interest is music. I enjoy listening to all sorts of genres, and I love discovering interesting new songs, artists, ... I also used to play the drums in various bands. Unfortunately due to personal circumstances I hardly ever get to play anymore 😿 - uhm, I mean 😥.

Here's a list of some of my favorite songs:

The Glitch Mob - Fortune Days (Glitch)
Anomalie - Métropole (Funk, House)
Electric Callboy - Everytime We Touch (Cover) (Metal, Electronicore, EDM)
Manu Delago - Zeitgeber (live) (probably Jazz?)
Lensko - Cetus (Electronic, House)
Viera Blech - Von Freund zu Freund (Polka)
Aerdung - Sit down relax (Jazz)
millennium parade - U (J-Pop, Alternative)

Anime

I named this category anime, because when it comes to - whatever the common interface of movies, TV shows, anime, etc is - I mainly consume Japanese animation. 😅

Here are some of my favorites:

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (my all-time favorite 😻)
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
So I'm a Spide, So What?
Ranking of Kings
Saga of Tanya the Evil

Reading

I recently took on reading again. Mainly light novels at the moment. I'm currently reading "How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom".

Fun Facts

I own cat ears 😺 - but don't tell anyone! 🤫
My favorite food is Burgers - and I don't mean McDonalds, obviously.
I'd like to think I'm decent at chess.
I have a pet: An albino axolotl called Sisu.
Despite not being an audiophile, I have quite a selection of headphones.
I do think HTML is a programming language.
Beer and coffee taste disgusting to me.
I own a Blåhaj. Its name is Aloha.
The wallpaper on my desktop computer is a bunch of fried chicken.
The scientific name of the Eurasian magpie is Pica pica.
In a broader sense, there are currently 11 computers in the room with me.
You just lost The Game.
This website uses 10 different computer languages. Descending by number of lines: CSS, Python, YAML, Markdown, JavaScript, HTML, TypeScript, PHP, JSON, Makefile

Weird Projects

Here are a few of my weirder projects that I don't want to put on my resumee, but might be still interesting. ^^

MineTroll

A Bukkit plugin that impersonates Discord users, and makes fun of people dying in-game

Stack: Bukkit, Java, Discord, GPT-3.5

Source

queermandelbrot

A very basic Mandelbrot set viewer with queer color schemes writting in Gleam

Stack: Gleam, JavaScript

Website Source

HTML Tic-Tac-Toe

An implementation of the game Tic-Tac-Toe in pure HTML

Stack: HTML, Python

Website Source Blog

Javagony2

Programming challange based on Javagony

Stack: Java

Source

Git Family Tree

Program to build git tree according to family trees

Stack: ShellScript

Source

x86-64 Wordle

A Wordle clone that only uses x86-64 instructions in its word list

Stack: JavaScript, React

Website Source

XML-Programming

An XML-based programming language

Stack: Golang

Source

Geiger Counter Entropy

Arduino project for getting entropy bits from a Geiger counter

Stack: Arduino, C++

Source

Other Weird Shit

Silly Websites

A funny static redirect to X.com: the-website-formerly-known-as-twitter.com
A website that plays the beginning of Megalovania using oscillators from the Web Audio API

Clicky Things 😻

... Because who can resist pressing buttons? 😅

(Just FYI: The following section needs JavaScript and cookies. Some of these buttons will process your data. To learn more check out the Privacy Policy.)

Do you think I'm a catgirl?

We all know I'm not, right? ... right?

Am I a Good Girl or a Bad Girl?

Help me uncover the truth about my inner self!

Mystery Button

88x31 Buttons

I'm not quite sure if 88x31 pixel buttons fit the aesthetics of this website, but here's the thing: I don't care. They are fun, so I'm keeping them! 😁

My Button

88x31 button, light blue background outset border, pixelated text reading 'not-a-catgirl.online'. The animation is a catgirl popping up, putting her hands on the bottom border. Her head is blocking part of the text, so it reads 'a-catgirl.online'

Feel free to using this button when linking back to my side - you can also link to a-catgirl.online. 😸
The button was made by the amazing @misnina. If you are looking for a custom button, consider commissioning her.

Awesome People

88x31 button, pinkish-purple background, outset border. There is a shadow of a golden retriever head on the left. The animation shows the dog taking a sip from a club mate bottle. Then a mouse cursor comes in, clicks the dog head (the background briefly gets a deeper shade of purple and the border changes to inset), while the mouse leaves again, the text 'feminina.zip' scrolls into view. Then the text rotated into the 3rd dimention bringing the image back to the start for looping.

Hopefully, I can add more later.

Cool & Interesting Stuff

$88x31 button, animation showing the text 'I'm into', followed by the LaTeX logo, and a smirking emoji$

88x31 button, animated text: Internet Archive, preserves the internet, games, film, TV, software, photos, books, history!

88x31 button, animation: WhatsApp crossed out, Telegram crossed out, iMessage crossed out, Facebook Messenger crossed out, Discord scribbled through, Signal circled

I actually do design some buttons myself sometimes - I'm not very good at it though. 😅 In case you want to check them out, you can find them here.

Webrings & Directories

arrow_back

arrow_forward

... What? Were you expecting even more buttons? No, I don't want the site to just be 88x31 buttons... No, forget it, I'm not going too...
... Okay, fine, whatever. 🙄 However, I refuse to be normal, let's give it a different spin.
(Unfortunately, it doesn't work well on mobile.)

Contact

The best way to contact me is probably via email at i-am@not-a-catgirl.online. Alternatively, you can send me a DM on ~~Mastodon~~ the fediverse.

My current rating is . Feel free to leave a review as well.

Just to be clear: I really don't need any money - you should probably give it to someone else. However, if you want to support me regardless, you can buy me a fritz-kola over on my Ko-fi page.

Bellow you can find some more links to stalk me on.