</rant> ChatGPT is a great tool for creating and re-formatting content based on text that it’s given, but for the purpose of writing technical documentation, it can be hit and miss. I’ve found it great at re-ordering notes and formatting them in a way that can actually be understood – great when it’s a Monday…Read More
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Finding and Fixing Layout Shifts/CLS Issues
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on fixing Cumulative Layout Shift issues for my clients. CLS is a factor in the Core Web Vitals Google introduced in May 2020, used to measure a user’s experience related to the performance of a website. Layout shifts negatively affect a user’s experience, which is why Google…Read More
web-vitals vs Lighthouse vs PageSpeed Insights – What’s the Difference?
There are quite a few different libraries out there that can help with measuring your Site Speed, specifically Google’s Core Web Vitals standards. The primary three tools that are are commonly used and set the standards are web-vitals, Lighthouse, and PageSpeed Insights. Each tool/library in the list is connected to the one before it. web-vitals…Read More
Getting WASD Movement Control Input From the Client
Brief Overview of Packets All communication between the player (client) and the server is done via “packets”. A packet is a collection of data, with the first entry defining what sort of packet it is. For example, when an entity is spawned in the world, the server sends a Spawn Entity packet to the client…Read More
How to create cooldowns with Spigot
Before you start (prerequisites) You don’t need to have any extensive Java experience, but it helps to understand how some of the basic features work. The main point of this tutorial is to go over the method and it’s implementation, not how Java features like Singletons work. How we want it to work For these…Read More