How I built Grantly (and open sourcing it)
I'm deciding to open source Grantly, an AI-native grant discovery and matching platform.
Lincoln Maxwell
Software developer and CS student at UMass Amherst. Building things that ship.
Latest posts
I built a Minecraft economy server from scratch
Including the plugins themselves, the server network, the ORM, and the deployment pipeline.
Predicting college acceptances using statistical and neural methods
College decisions are not predictable. But let's give it a shot anyway.
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.