This is the official site of MCL Software, a non-professional software development group started on February 14, 2014.
MCL started out as Migdyn's Site, and was later renamed to MCE in early 2020, before being renamed to MCL only a few days later. MCL stands for Migdyn's Computer and Electronics;
MCL is a very loosely connected group and we don't have any official members. Contributors are assigned to projects on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Our projects include PogoBijoux, XtreemNodes, XtreemTest, BetterCraft, Adsurv, MigLabs, CubeSoft Testing, "Where Is Home?", and SovNat-GBI.
Until 2022, Migdyn used MCL as his username on some of his personal accounts leading many people to believe that MCL is nothing more than Migdyn's alias; to avoid confusion, most of those accounts have been renamed to Migdyn or some other username that Migdyn uses.
This site also serves as the personal site of Migdyn, the founder of the MCL project.
Migdyn/FMoS/Temp1/Temp2/TEMPx86*, the founder of MCL Software, and the primary editor of this site. I used to be a somewhat active member of Cube Software, however I haven't contributed to any one of they're projects since early 2023 in any significant capacity.
I don't use any "social media" sites (well, I do use YouTube and Reddit which some would consider to be social media sites, but I do not see them as such), if anybody on those sites claims to be me he is lying.
I dislike most modern proprietary software (anything made in the last 15 years or so), and from what I've observed, proprietary software has been steadily degrading in quality since the early 2000's, and most software made in the mid 2010's or later is nearly unusable because of how bloated and dumbed down it is.
I am in favor of developing new technology using machine learning and I stand strongly against Luddites who are trying to push back against ongoing technological progress; those Luddites have infiltrated many influential circles, such as Hollywood movie studios, resulting in the SAG-AFTRA protests, I am against copyright in its current form, I also do not consider the copying of non-tangible works or ideas to be theft.
| Computers | I have too many computers to list all of them here ;-) |
| Mice | Dell and Lenovo OEM mice (both PS/2 and USB), some are optical and some are mechanical |
| Keyboards | Some mid-tier Tracer-brand rubber-dome keyboard, Unicomp 122-key keyboard, Some Logitech mechanical keyboard, Dell and Lenovo OEM keyboards |
| Monitors | three 4:3 Dell monitors, two 16:9 Acer monitors and two 16:9 Dell monitor + a few others |
| Networking | TP-Link and TRENDnet switches and routers |
| Operating systems | Windows Vista, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows XP, Debian, & Devuan) |
| Text editor | Notepad++, Nano, Emacs (occasionally) |
| IDE | Code::Blocks (for C and C++), Eclipse (for Java) |
| Graphics | GIMP 2.6.12 (for raster gfx), Inkscape (for vector gfx) |
| Video editing | KDEnlive (since 2017), FFmpeg (for simple edits), OpenShot (2017-2019), Windows Movie Maker (until 2021) |
| Audio editing | Audacity 2.0.6 |
| Music production | Linux MultiMedia Studio, OpenMPT |
| 3-D Modelling | Blender (latest release, but sometimes I use 2.79) |
| E-mail client | Thunderbird |
| Web browser | Firefox and forks of Firefox |
| File browser | Explorer on Windows; Thunar, Dolphin, Konqueror, and a few others on GNU/Linux, depedning on the desktop environment |
| Media playback | VLC Media Player, mpv |
| Jabber cleint | Psi+ |
| Image browser | ImageGlass (Windows); Nomacs, Gwenview, and feh (GNU/Linux) |
| Raw image processing | RawTherapee |