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Michael Williams

@rocketmoose.bsky.social

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Senior Director, Central Technology at Bungie. Miikhaal, raveler of enigmas. My opinion is mine alone. He/Him

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Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 2d

Why call it an integer overflow when you could call it integer prestiging?

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Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 4d

Me: Heh. They are going to need 20-30 pizza cards to pad that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Magic the Gathering set out!

The Universe:

A magic cart called “The Gift of Prophecy”
Type: Summon Apollo
With the flavor text “But what if…” - Random internet users trying to be comedic.
The image is a warrior holding a dodgeball, about to nail some spearmen who are just walking around.

The card is a 3/1 card for 4R, because prophecy is always too costly.

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 11d

They do not, so other treats!

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 11d

Gotta get our shots first!

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 11d

Shawna: What should we get for our post-vaccine treat?
Me: We could see if Midnight cookie still has those amazing apple pie pocket cookies?
Shawna: Yeah, it’s worth a shot! 😁

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Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 15d

Those look incredible!!!

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 17d

A modified diagram for the from the game Portal, showing a Molotov cocktail being thrown down through a low blue portal and coming out through a high yellow portal and arcing towards a power boat. A caption reads "Now you're thinking with Bortles."

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 17d

Car horns should also have a tiny boop button for getting someone’s attention (like if they haven’t noticed a green light)

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 17d

It was a fun day for us!

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 19d

At some places the role names are swapped between producer and product manager so it is definitely good to check about the roles of both at a given company.

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 19d

Another way of thinking about Jira update reminders: Just like you might be blocked waiting on an asset or code, a producer can be blocked on their work if they don’t have task estimates or completion velocity data.

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Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 19d

You will absolutely feel the difference if you lose a producer for an extended period of time, or they are stretched too thin.

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Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 19d

Fundamentally, at most places, producers are the ones making sure a project can close predictably, and that teams aren’t blocked by dependencies during development. For individual devs, this can be almost invisible, except that much of this work is data driven, which depends on good jira hygiene.

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Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 19d

Yaw, Pitch, and Barrel Roll!

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 20d

Japan is still bringing their A-game

www.expo2025.or.jp/en/overview/...

Japan’’s mascot for Wold Expo 2025, Myaku-Myaku. This delightfully cute cosmic horror is a blue dripping figure with a red donut of eyes surrounding its smiling mouth.

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 22d

So by drinking, you reenact the tea party!

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 22d

Long Island Iced tea with salt on the rim?

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Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 23d

The good news is you don’t score till the end, but there’s definitely a bunch of math at that point!

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 24d

Tofino, in British Columbia!

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Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · 25d

In keeping with the general themes of our marriage, yesterday Shawna and I celebrated our 20 year anniversary by walking about 14 miles of coastline. I feel so so so incredibly lucky to be married to such an incredible partner in adventure!

Shawna gazing out over a rocky coastline.

An apple strudel, a mocha, and another apple strudel on a narrow table in front of a misty bay, with islands poking out of the fog.

Michael and Shawna on the bow of an island-taxi in a bay, with islands behind them.

Shawna on a bike on the beach, throwing her hands up in celebration. A sunset lights up the sky behind her.

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Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · Sep 15

Those are suns!

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Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · Sep 11

Generally it’s “The Alg”, “The ‘Rithim” or “The Big A”.

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Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · Sep 5

One other callout of it matters: One of the protagonists (not the lead) is always smoking a cigarette, and it is usually coded as “cool”.

Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · Sep 5

There’s a live action Netflix show that is pretty good and covers the 1st 40 episodes or so in 8 eps. Season 2 of that comes out pretty soon.

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Michael Williams @rocketmoose.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s still going too! It’s been a popcorn show for us over the last few years and we just hit 1000 😆.

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