brockneedscoffee.bsky.social
brockneedscoffee.bsky.social
brockneedscoffee.bsky.social
@brockneedscoffee.bsky.social
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft working on Minecraft Bedrock Edition, opinions are my own
Yikes! Thanks for posting about it. I’ll follow up with the team
October 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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
September 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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
September 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Mine is the nautilus. So excited to explore the oceans!
September 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Oh it was clear. Thanks for the thoughtful responses and this thread in general ❤️
September 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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
September 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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
September 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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 “that’s our stuff, don’t use our stuff”

Realistically though I think
September 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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
September 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This randomly popped up on my feed, your post on getting started with Minecraft is very good and your blog looks fantastic!
August 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It’s never too early
June 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I’m going to call and email his office daily until he tells me what the plan is to make sure my local libraries have the funding they need to provide the services my community wants and needs

You should do the same for your representatives
April 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM