i was looking for like, handbag hooks to try putting them up on a wall to free up some space after moving recently, and all the ones that exist seem like such awful ideas to use? all super thin hooks that'll 100% cause damage to the straps if it's hanging there for a while :/

Australia is enacting a <16 social media ban as of tomorrow, with most sites using algorithms to guess your age, with ways to further verify if it guesses wrong. so curious how many sites incorrectly mark me as <16 due to being a Minecraft modder lol

i've just written the second article in my series on the risks of modding, this one focusing on the community, as well as community management!😊 madelinemiller.dev/blog/risks-o...

i've just written a new article, about the concept of "reply articles," as well as Webmentions. my site now also coincidentally supports Webmentions 😅 you can read it here- madelinemiller.dev/blog/i-wish-... 😊

i've written a new article on some of the risks of game modding i wish i knew before starting, hopefully ending up as a series of a few posts- you can check it out here! 😊 maddy.tech/risks-of-mod...

trying out Outer Worlds 2- i _love_ this setting. it: * consolidates motion sickness stuff together * acknowledges what it's actually for (which means it'll probably actually work, rather than be superficial like many games) * lets you adjust for your own severity

We’ve just released betas for WorldEdit’s next feature release, WorldEdit 7.4- you can read more about it here! 😊🎉 maddy.tech/introducing-...

very useful that Google clearly could tell what i wanted, given it highlighted the only relevant part of the output- but decided i probably wanted to know about something else entirely, that it even admits doesn’t even have four variations i googled “4 versions of the scream painting”

pro tip: don't take an ancestry summary from someone's blog post, ask an AI to generate an example person based on the ancestry estimates, then send it to them asking them how much it resembles them. that's a very weird thing to do :)

i've just written a new article in my Whole Genome Sequencing series! this one covering ancestry analysis & admixture- focusing on local admixture tools maddy.tech/whole-genome...

I finally got around to adding a daily mode to my Rebigulator game I made years ago 😅- It's a Simpsons trivia game about guessing the episode from a frame & quote 😌 rebigulator.org

I’ve had many people recommend setting up a mailing list due to my recent article on the impact of AI search engines- so i investigated the available offerings and wrote an article about it 😅 maddy.tech/personal-blo...

I’ve written an article on some trends in data I’ve found around my website, and AI search engines. I’m concerned how well blogging as a medium can actually survive this trend, if things don’t change much from their current state. madelinemiller.dev/blog/ai-sear...

Update on my Facebook account- someone saw the tweet and unbanned it 😌 I've written about my experience here, covering how social media is becoming borderline essential to function in society, and the impact that being banned can have- madelinemiller.dev/blog/dark-si...

I've written an article that goes over what optimisation is, and whether software/games are less optimised now than they used to be 😌 madelinemiller.dev/blog/what-is...

So a few weeks ago, some random kid on Discord managed to get my Facebook and all other Meta accounts suspended, with no chance of appeal and no way to make new accounts; hours after sending a nonsensical malicious threat. It’s horrific that this is actually possible

okay i actually love this game? i’m not finished part one yet, but it might be one of my favourite games ever depending on how it goes. i just love the character interaction vibes, and the filming and editing stuff 😌

Lost Records Bloom & Rage seems to actually have decent motion sickness accessibility settings 👀

so it turns out Wikipedia's page on MC Modding mentions WorldEdit, but i find it actually so funny that the only other entry in the section is on malware the two Minecraft mods: WorldEdit and Malware

i was just debugging why something was 100000x slower in my production Vite build than my dev server, and it turns out it was the polyfill for private class properties??? honestly shocked that such an innocuous feature's polyfills can tank performance like that

one of my biggest pet peeves around software changelogs, is when a release that had prior beta or alpha versions doesn’t list changes since the last stable. it means you need to then go through every alpha/beta release and decipher whether each change is relevant or not

The Open Source Pledge is one of the most exciting initiatives for open source I've seen in years. Open source funding today is inherently broken. Do the right thing, support open source. @opensourcepledge.com

someone suggested the other day that i write up a post about my experiences self-publishing an eBook, from the perspective of a software engineer. so i did 😊 this article goes over the process i took, and my thoughts around the various steps, madelinemiller.dev/blog/ebook-p...

a fair few people have requested an offline-viewable version of my 2020 post that outlined the first decade of Minecraft Multiplayer's history- so i spent some time turning it into a free eBook! 😅 madelinemiller.dev/blog/decade-... books.apple.com/us/book/id67... | play.google.com/store/books/...

i've made a post that covers how to read Minecraft Spark reports, similar to my one on Timings from a few years ago :) given Spark has replaced Timings in Paper now, it felt like a good time to write one on it 😅 madelinemiller.dev/blog/spark-p...

gotta say, looking back on some older stuff i’ve written, i’ve gotten significantly better at writing since i stopped using Grammarly. i feel it made me focus on what made it happy, rather than what made sense to me and flowed well, stopping me building up my own writing skill

something i’ve noticed over the past few years (mostly since tiktok creators got really big), is that “content creator” is now a much smaller term. like i used to get called a content creator due to my mods/plugins and writing, but now the term seems to mean video creator specifically

i did some investigations into the speed of block lookups on a few Minecraft versions over time, and wrote an article about it- how much slower it got actually shocked me 👀 i knew it got slower but didn't realise it was this much slower madelinemiller.dev/blog/minecra...

i've just written an article on motion sickness accessibility in video games. i feel like i'm on an article writing streak right now lol, two in a week! madelinemiller.dev/blog/motion-...

i've written an article on the JavaScript packages that i'll be watching in 2025, and which ones i'm intending to leave behind. check it out here! madelinemiller.dev/blog/2024-ja...

every so often i get DMs from kids pretending to be famous/"important" people thinking it gets them priority support with WorldEdit/WorldGuard/etc (eg, university professors, Donald Trump, president of Argentina comes up a lot too, etc) first time getting Santa tho lol

i've just gone through so many of my articles to update them due to the Paper hard fork. if anyone does happen to find something i missed, please let me know 😅