Rob Ocel

@robocel.bsky.social

Software Developer (This Dot Labs), Father, Host of the Modern Web Podcast, Runner, and Gamer. Lover of web development and mentoring junior engineers! Feed full of thoughts on gaming and engineering! Let's chat!

[to the tune of The LEGO Movie theme song] EVERYTHING IS URGENT EVERYTHING IS P-ZERO PRIORITY EVERYTHING IS URGEEEEEENT IT'S AN EEEEMERGENCYYYYYY

It melts my heart to share the joy of Minecraft’s 1.20 update with my son. He’s so excited to play with the mob he voted for in last year’s Mob Vote!

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In 1996, it took me all day to download the Diablo beta (50mb) on my 28.8kbps modem. I prayed no one would call the house while we were away and ruin the download. Just now, I started pre-installing Diablo 4. 85gb! Inflation is hell.

Nothing like the panic of getting your kid ready for school and realizing his "Student of the Week" poster is due. "Take time and get creative" Crap. Some frantic coloring and cutting up family photos later, we arrived at school exactly at first bell, poster in hand. Hey, as long as he's happy.

My son's Student of the Week poster

Tried archery for the first time during a team exercise at our management offsite! It was remarkably fun and relaxing! Not intimidating at all; would definitely recommend.

Picture of me shooting a bow

Working on a way to rein in bikeshedding and edge case obsession - Plane Ticket size. We don’t fix issues that are so rare and low impact that it’s cheaper to fly devs to fix things for affected user(s). Software is expensive, y’all. You’d be surprised how much gets culled by Plane Ticket sizing!

Hello friends! Let's connect about our thoughts on gaming (JRPGs, ARPGS, MMO, etc), software development (JavaScript, C#, etc), parenting, and engineering management!