Lincoln Maxwell's blog & portfolio
Compassionate community builder. Introverted-extrovert. Reader, writer, creator, coder. More about me.
Latest posts
An IP address is worth 1,000 words
— The few forgettable bytes that is an IP address have implications greater than we remind ourselves, and it can tell us stories much greater than we think of at first.
Optimizing engagement on a Minecraft server using behavioral psychology
— How I engineered a Minecraft survival server that keeps players engaged for hours by combining smart infrastructure choices with behavioral psychology and incentive design.
February 8, 2026 update to Lincoln's Minecraft server
— The winner of this week's build challenge, updates, bug fixes, the state of the server, and the future of the server.
Quick Start: Lincoln's Minecraft server
— A survival guide for Lincoln's economy server. Learn the rules of the land, how to climb the leaderboards, and building a shop to earn money.
Clustering 142K HackerNews posts from 2025 and other findings
— I created an interactive clustering visualization of 142K+ posts from HackerNews that were posted this past year and analyzed other parts of the dataset.