- CrystalCraftMC Forums Sunset
It is with a sad heart that I share that the crystalcraftmc.com forums are permanently retired as of 6 February 2022. Nearly ten years ago, in August 2012, I founded a Minecraft multiplayer game server. It would eventually become known as …
- The Day Open Source Died: A Story About Minecraft, Bukkit, and the GPL
Once upon a time, when I was a teenager, I volunteered in the Minecraft open source community. I volunteered as a staff member of the largest open source Minecraft server today, called Spigot. Spigot is a fork of the Bukkit project. This blog post is …
- 2016 – My Year in Review
Before looking too far ahead to the future, it’s important to spend time to reflect over the past year’s events, identify successes and failures, and devise ways to improve. Describing my 2016 is a challenge for me to find the right words for. This …
- SpigotMC Goes to California for MINECON
Every year, Mojang holds the annual Minecraft convention, MINECON. MINECON is a convention where Minecraft players, software developers, content creators, and others in the Minecraft gaming world come together for a weekend of panels, activities, …
- How Minecraft Got Me Involved in the Open Source Community
This post was originally published on OpenSource.com. When people first think of “open source”, their mind probably first goes to code. Something technical that requires an intermediate understanding of computers or programming languages. But open …
- 2015 - My Year in Review
I originally began drafting this post 900 miles away from my current location. It was an hour until the New Year and I was trying to put together a rough outline of the things that made 2015 such an incredible year for me. However, for reasons I …