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Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft working on Minecraft Bedrock Edition, opinions are my own

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Great episode, but for sure the way Boris talks about Claude he for sure thinks it’s alive. (It’s not)

25.02.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A GYM? WHAT'S A GYM?
YouTube video by Springfield Tomacco A GYM? WHAT'S A GYM?

Mine that I use a lot which doesn’t read as well as it sounds is β€œa gym, what’s a gym…. Ohhhh a a gym”

youtu.be/vLXY5Gme-fQ?...

24.02.2026 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
10 GitHub Copilot Tips for Game Developers
YouTube video by Stacey Haffner 10 GitHub Copilot Tips for Game Developers

I know AI can be a hot button issue in game development but this is a super helpful video on how to use copilot in game development.

youtu.be/y0Z93nRgQG8?...

10.02.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As a parent of a 10 and 6 year old… I’m still tired πŸ˜‚ and the part about being more efficient, caring more and less at the same time is something only a parent can understand.

10.02.2026 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One thing I enjoy the most is seeing the community respond to our changelogs, sometimes they are spot on about what we are cooking up, other times they say it’s weird we did a thing not realizing it’s a small piece to a much larger puzzle. Thank you all for being so passionate about #minecraft

10.02.2026 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m video game industry adjacent πŸ˜…

09.02.2026 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That was an awesome halftime show. The technical prowess to pull that off, showing all the different cultural aspects, and even if you don’t speak the language you could feel the joy. Awesome!

09.02.2026 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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@theverge.com catching up on a few podcasts within a podcast and thought I would share this

27.01.2026 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a fantastic week in Stockholm working with devs on how to get new blocks in the game faster AND how to make it creator friendly. Stockholm was beautiful but I’m ready to go home πŸ˜… #minecraft

24.01.2026 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot wait!

23.01.2026 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also I’m more diligent on canceling/rejecting meetings now. I try to make sure I have time for deep work that isn’t chopped up by meetings that end up being status readouts.

07.01.2026 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel this in my bones. What I’m learning to do is to let some things just burn. I cannot be in all the meetings, fight all the fires, do all the design reviews, etc. if I try I end up doing them all poorly, so I stack rank what’s on my plate based on impact and ROI and do that.

07.01.2026 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I finally got around to playing with Godot and I’m not sure I’ll ever go back to Unity #godot

01.01.2026 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

My degree is in English and I have:
- Led the CNNGo team for connected devices
- Led architecture for Bleacher Report
- Led a team for coauthoring on the Microsoft Word team
- Led a team at AWS for commercial Linux on EC2-
- and now I’m an engineering manager for Minecraft πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

29.12.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t get why they would target any individual dev. I can safely say that all of us both on the Microsoft side and Mojang AB side who work on Minecraft love the game and the communities around itπŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

28.12.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Reading that whole thread is wild. The internet is a weird place.

27.12.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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TikTok signs deal to sell US unit to American investor-led venture ByteDance's TikTok has signed a deal to sell its U.S. entity to a joint venture controlled by American investors, according to a memo from TikTok CEO seen by Reuters.

@reckless.bsky.social not even in 2026 yet and some of the predictions you guys made are off (if the deal goes through) πŸ˜…

TikTok signs deal to sell US unit to American investor-led venture - www.reuters.com/business/ame...

18.12.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My @frame.work laptop was overheating and the fans were driving me nuts. Any other laptop I probably would have just spent 3k on another one, but with this one I spent 19.99 on some new thermal paste, popped it open, applied it and now it works perfectly. #righttorepair #framework

11.11.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you allπŸ™πŸΎ) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
πš‚πšπšŠπš—πš πšƒπšŠπš•πš•.
πš†πšŽ πš†πš’πš•πš• πš†πš’πš—.

10.10.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 24664    πŸ” 8427    πŸ’¬ 326    πŸ“Œ 345

Yikes! Thanks for posting about it. I’ll follow up with the team

02.10.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My observation is schools and universities in general have done not a great job of prepping graduates to think critically. I think the broad adoption of AI for school age kids is only going to make that worse. Critical thinking skills is the number one thing I look for in a candidate FWIW

29.09.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

From my time at AWS, we did use AWS for everything, but I personally found the customer experience better than our internal tooling.

At Microsoft, atleast on my team, the tooling is the same as our customers except we are on an insider ring, so we dogfood features first

29.09.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mine is the nautilus. So excited to explore the oceans!

27.09.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For those of you tuning in to #MinecraftLive, what are you most excited about?

27.09.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh it was clear. Thanks for the thoughtful responses and this thread in general ❀️

25.09.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah that’s super tough. You are right, as a company, your responsibility is to your company and employees, not the greater good necessarily, which goes back to what I think the real solution is. It’s not a company, or some savior politician, but coalitions of normal people making their voices heard

24.09.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The real solution is in the hands of voters. Vote in all elections, local and national. Tell the politicians what you will and won’t put up with with your vote and your dollars

24.09.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They don’t push back hard, they move the boundary further and further out. I think they could just push to take the video down like any IP enforcement take down without making it political. This would atleast send a message of β€œthat’s our stuff, don’t use our stuff”

Realistically though I think

24.09.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know what I would do in that situation, I’d like to think I would fight them but I’ve also never had that many people I was responsible for. I’d only like to mention that from my observations this administration keeps pushing at the boundaries to see what people/companies will do, and when

24.09.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Minecraft LIVE Official Trailer – September 2025
YouTube video by Minecraft Minecraft LIVE Official Trailer – September 2025

Can’t wait for players to see what we all have been working on #Minecraft #Mojang #MinecraftLive

youtu.be/5QU20HMPZ3M?...

12.09.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0