Hi, I'm Maddy (me4502)

I'm a Software Engineer/Computer Scientist from Queensland, Australia.

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at the Clipchamp team at Microsoft, and develop the Minecraft mods WorldEdit, WorldGuard, and CraftBook in my spare time. I also enjoy contributing to numerous Open Source Software projects, and enjoy deep diving into various technologies and optimising performance. If you're looking for a more in-depth view of my contributions to the Minecraft community, it's available here!

This website is home to a portfolio of things I have done, as well as a showcase of a few experiments I've done over the years. I also enjoy technical writing, and quite frequently publish blog posts. Check a few out here!

Recently Updated Posts

10 Year Q & A

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In category General with tags Personal, Retrospective

9977 words | 38 minutes to read

To mark ten years of writing, I answered an overwhelming number of questions from readers I never expected to have.

IPv4 exhaustion is now a UX problem

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In category Technology with tags Explainer, UX, Web

1874 words | 7 minutes to read

Most discussions don’t touch on the places where CGNAT is an inescapable reality. For many users IPv4 scarcity still feels like a theoretical issue, and they design the internet accordingly.

Phone numbers are not life-long identifiers

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In category Technology with tags Retrospective, UX

1338 words | 5 minutes to read

Most services expect a user will have a phone number available, but many make the mistake of treating phone numbers as unique life-long identifiers. This is a customer experience and privacy nightmare.