Philip Linden 🛰️

Important guy in suit smiling shaking hands with an awkward young guy with a mullet, necktie, and fanny pack looking afraid but trying to smile. suit guy: future humans admiring paradigm shifting ideas mullet guy: weirdos today sharing embarrassing stories about their mistakes on the internet

club-mate.com

An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.

However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

☕ caffeine accountability report April 30, 2025:

1 Red Bull, 16 oz can
1 Monster, 16 oz can
1 Diet Coke, 12 oz can
1 McDonald's Frappe, Large
1/2 Medium Coke from McDonald's

Total: ~510mg

☕ caffeine accountability report April 23, 2025:

1 espresso
1 monster, 16 oz can
1 diet coke, 12 oz can

Total: ~270mg

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

☕ caffeine accountability report for April 22, 2025:

- drip coffee, 1x cup
- monster, 1x 16 oz can
- diet coke, 1x 12 oz can
- chai tea, 1x bag

Total: ~350mg

This week has been a rough month.

⏱️ One second in 300 million years - that's how accurate ACES will be 💪
@esa.int's Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space will use its two ultra-precise atomic clocks to revolutionise timekeeping from orbit 💫. Learn more in our blog 👉 blogs.esa.int/exploration/the-clocks-of-aces/

An excellent read by Matthias Endler - Prototyping in Rust 🦀! It's not as hard as it initially seems, and it gives you an excellent runway to a great production ready application!

corrode.dev/blog/prototy...

Remember kids, it's okay to `.unwrap()` and `todo!()` when you are prototyping 👏

portuguese version with ã? 🙏

1000x more interesting than the minecraft movie but you still need jack black to achieve perfection

Never thought I'd say this but I want my leap second back. if I want to keep up with my todo list I'm gonna need it

Turns out there are only 24 hours in a day, that sucks

espanso.org some macro suggestions:

;gg -> "👊🇺🇸🔥"
;rip -> "I didn't think it could get any worse, but "
;email -> (your email)
;zoom -> (link to your personal zoom room)
;omg -> "Is this real life?"

lmk if you want my magic 8 ball macro, it has gotten me through some tough situations

I tried to put together an honest assessment of why we even care about weather balloons in a satellite world and why these cuts probably won't be noticed by the public 90% of the time. But the 10% of the time? That's a very, very, very big and concerning 10%.

There is a movement afoot to get the SI unit for momentum (kg m/s) named after her:

YouTube video by Pressure-Fed Astronaut What's Currently Orbiting the Moon? | End of Mission Special Episode 8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1U9...

YouTube video by Emergent Garden I Quit my Job to make Weird Programs

@emergentgarden.bsky.social YouTube finally recommended your channel to me today! youtu.be/34KhwO7Txhs I share many of the same interests and opinions as you and your projects are sick. The "idea garden" perspective on hobby coding projects really resonated with me. Great stuff

#BlueGhost

A Lunar Sunset Video capturing the horizon glow. The NASA science team is excited to analyze these images further and share more on the findings soon!

Credit: @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social
📷 flic.kr/p/2qSJJfR 🧪🔭 #BGM1

🦀 bevy projects update: haven't landed a new feature or prototype in weeks. I keep rewriting the same old things until I'm tired and log off. Normally the prototypes are the fun part too. Time to start a new project I guess

The Sun, emerging from totality behind the Earth, seen from Blue Ghost's perch on the Moon:

@firefly-aerospace.bsky.social

SPHEREx begins its journey

Saturn's outer moon system viewed from the north pole of Saturn. Moons orbiting in clockwise (retrograde) orbits have red-colored orbits while moons orbiting counterclockwise (prograde; in the direction of Saturn's spin) are colored blue. With so many irregular moons occupying the same region and intersecting each other, the irregular moon system looks like a donut-shaped vortex surrounding Saturn. Each of the 128 new moons is highlighted in the diagram with a white point representing their location, and a brighter-colored orbit. Previously-known moons of Saturn are included in the diagram, but are colored darker. The regular moons of Saturn are colored turquoise and the outermost regular moons (Titan, Hyperion, and Iapetus) labeled with their name. At the lower left corner are scale indicators to help visualize the scale of Saturn's irregular moon system. A small gray circle at the left left corner is shown to represent the diameter of the Earth-Moon orbital distance. A linear scale bar is labeled "10 million km" (6.2 million mi) to give a standard distance.

View of Saturn's irregular moon system, tilted at an angle to show the toroidal belt-like shape of the system. Each moon is labeled with their names in turquioise. Red orbits = retrograde direction, and blue orbits = prograde direction. Turquoise curves closer to the center are orbits of Saturn's regular moons.

Side view of Saturn's irregular moon system, tilted at an angle to show the toroidal belt-like shape of the system. Red orbits = retrograde direction, and blue orbits = prograde direction. Turquoise curves closer to the center are orbits of Saturn's regular moons. The irregular moons of Neptune (dark green) are also visible in the background to the right of Saturn. The horizontal red line protruding right of Saturn is the orbit path of Saturn.

I spent almost 2 hours painstakingly copying the orbits of all 128 Saturnian moons from the announcement MPEC and reformatting them for visualization...

Behold, here are the orbits of ALL 128 MOONS OF SATURN. This isn't just a moon system—it's a literal asteroid belt around Saturn! 🧪🔭☄️

Dear diary,
How are you? I am fine.
Once again I had some great ideas before falling asleep! The only thing I remember is that I had them and they were great. Not what the ideas were.
Nominally,
me

Let's debunk this whole "space is hard" mantra.

Looking at all NASA-led missions launched since 2000, only 4 out of ~60 missions experienced total failures.

Two of these were due to issues with the commercial launch vehicle, & two were spacecraft issues.

That is a *93% success rate.* (1/n)

Ha This Is Fine GIF ALT: Ha This Is Fine GIF

Dear diary,
How are fine? I am you.
I forgot to take my meds today. What a klutz.
Nominally,
me

Dear diary,
How are you? I am fine.
Today I am trying to maintain existential hope amid the chaos and still tweaking my keyboard macros. I had an idea for another Rust project 👀 and am behind on my current Rust project. I am also behind on commitments I made while tweaking on caffeine.
Nominally,
me

Dear diary,
How are you? I am fine.
A big cup of Matte Leão with lime gets me to a flow state faster than anything else. I'm surprised at how quickly I adapted to a split keyboard but I don't know if I will ever find the perfect layout.
Sincerely,
me

Dear diary,
How are you? I am fine.
Today I got mad at my rust project and started from scratch in Python and got to parity in a couple hours. Annoying, but now I have a baseline to work from. I am not giving up on rust!
Sincerely,
me