Maddy Miller's Blog

A few weeks ago, my TRMNL X arrived.

This article is a little bit of a weird one.

Discussions about the dwindling supply of IPv4 addresses have covered the internet for decades at this point, although always focusing on the technical problems this causes.

Phones and phone numbers are pretty common these days.

Something I’m sure everyone has noticed lately, is that for practically any aspect of JavaScript tooling, there’s an effort to rewrite it in a non-JS language.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an unreported bug will never be fixed.

We’ve been working hard on WorldEdit 7.4, and it’s finally ready for release.

Last year I wrote an article about what I was going to keep an eye on in 2025 in the JS ecosystem, as well as what technologies I’d decided to move away from.

Over the years, one of the most frequent questions I’ve been asked is “What do you wish you knew before you got into game modding?”

Something I’ve always loved about writing articles is that it can start a conversation.

Over the years, one of the most frequent questions I’ve been asked is “What do you wish you knew before you got into game modding?”

In my last article in this series, I covered using WGSExtract to convert your data into various formats or do some very basic forms of analysis.

Following on from my recent post around how AI Search Engines have been affecting my site’s traffic, as well as the larger ecosystem of informational content, I received numerous suggestions to try implementing a mailing list.

AI chat bots are becoming ubiquitous in many areas of life.

In the modern world, online accounts are ubiquitous.

If you’ve spent much time in online gaming or IT related spaces, you’ve likely seen people refer to optimisation.

You’ve probably heard about shaders in Minecraft, the mods or addons that make the game look more realistic or cinematic.

I recently self-published an eBook version of one of my older article on the history of Minecraft’s multiplayer mode.

Spark is currently the most popular tool for identifying performance issues on a Minecraft server, even recently replacing the old Timings system in Paper.

Minecraft is a block-based game, and due to that interactions with blocks are some of the most fundamental things that you can do.

Motion sickness, or more specifically simulation sickness in the context of video games, is an issue that affects up to one third of people.

2024 has been an interesting year for the JavaScript ecosystem, one that’s especially seen significant maturation across many “next generation” projects.

This post is the second in a series about Whole Genome Sequencing, or WGS.

I wrote this website using the GatsbyJS framework back in 2019.

Cyber attacks have been on the rise over the past few years, and this includes attacks against the Minecraft server community.

A while ago I purchased whole genome sequencing (WGS) with an average of 30x depth.

If you’ve been a Minecraft server admin for a while, you might’ve heard people talk about using the --forceUpgrade flag when updating a Minecraft server to a newer version of Minecraft.

For the past few years when I’ve gotten time, I’ve been working on a substantial rewrite of CraftBook, which has been referred to as “CraftBook 5”.

If you’re a Minecraft server admin, chances are you’ve heard the term “Bukkit” get thrown around in reference to common server software such as Paper, Spigot, or even the historic CraftBukkit.

CraftBukkit is Minecraft server software that first started development well over a decade ago.

This release has been a very long time coming, and our first major release since we switched to our new release model (which I’ll explain further on).

I love removing unused code.

A common question amongst Minecraft server administrators is whether WorldGuard, or a similar protection plugin, will work on modded platforms such as Forge, NeoForge or Fabric.

Web bundlers such as Webpack are a great tool to deploy web apps, but for more complex programs, bundle size can quickly become an issue.

Throughout the Minecraft community, you’ve likely heard of server admins asking about, or blaming various issues on, plugins conflicts.

When running a Minecraft server, having to choose between Forge or Fabric mods, or Bukkit plugin can be a difficult task.

If you run a Minecraft server, you might have come across cryptic errors such as “zip file closed” being attributed to various plugins, mods, or even the server itself.

Offline Mode is a feature of Minecraft servers that allows disabling user authentication, the step during connection that verifies you’re logged into your account.

When running a public Minecraft server, it's vital to understand the security risks.

Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, is a web technology championed by Google with the goal to improve the browsing experience on mobile devices.

Recently, the topic of companies ending their covid-19 remote working allowances has been a talking point across the internet.

NextJS is a framework that I've been using for a few years now.

Every so often, for various reasons, people change their names.

Over the past year, many new server software downloads calling themselves “forks of Paper” or “Paper forks” have popped up.

It’s here!

Back in Minecraft 1.13, Mojang added a feature to Minecraft called "Data Packs".

When browsing the internet or social media, you've likely seen some question marks or boxes where an emoji should be.

Mob or entity stackers are a new craze in the Minecraft server administration space, with claims to massively improve performance.

Premium plugins are incredibly popular amongst Minecraft servers today, should you use them?

I watched Inland Empire last night.