Monte Krol

@krolco.bsky.social

Eng Director @ Epic Games. Coffee fiend. Maker. Hockey. Sci-fi. Minis. All around nerd dad and husband . Matt 7:12. Mark 12:30-31. Opinions and puns are mine alone.

Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you

One of my engineers found a bug a couple of days ago, and it was one of those that left us wondering “how many random-looking crash reports has this caused?”

I love seeing this community gaining a huge amount of traction. I don’t think I’ll ever quite get back to involvement I had at the other place, but I really do enjoy this.

Some of our work in UEFN right now is improving the reliability of our live editing. Back about 15 years ago there was, coincidentally, a project called the Verse Networking Protocol that started with a network sync protocol for primitives as its lowest layer in the engine. 1/2

Eight years separate Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now" and Alanis Morrisette's "You Oughta Know". My older self is thinking about that period of change that my younger self experienced. Feels like it was *decades*.

After a nice break to unwind a bit, I’m happy to share that I started a new position as Engineer Director at Epic Games! I just wrapped up my second week. I'm working with an amazing group of engineers working on UEFN (Unreal Editor for Fortnite).

Random product rant: I can’t understand why all modern LED flashlights have an easy-to-accidentally activate flashing mode. I have never, ever once wanted flashing.

This digital diaspora is strange. I finally saw the new logo on my phone and was deeply creeped out. There were a number of epidemiology studies done in WoW. I wonder if this Twitter detonation will be similarly studied for its effects.