@Russssty

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20+ years of digital duct taping, requirement wrangling, and product backlog janitoring.
I've seen more server crashes than you've seen memes.
Waiting to be finally replaced by AI.

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
― B. F. Skinner

Profile pictureAn animated GIF of zeros and ones flowing through a circuit board to the CPU. Pre-FPU era, obviously. Replacement highly recommended.
PronounsHe/OMG not him again
Show threadRusssstyMar 30

Once rehydrated, the pouches go into a briefcase-sized warmer. It’s essentially a plate heater that needs 20–30 minutes to bring a meal to the right temperature.

To conserve the spacecraft's battery and solar reserves, the warmer is only powered on during designated mealtimes.

(Credit: NASA Johnson)

Show threadRusssstyMar 30

Meal prep begins at the Potable Water Dispenser (PWD) located in the mid-bay area, behind a locker panel. Since most of the food is freeze-dried, the crew has to inject precise amounts of water into the pouches first.

(Credit: Canadian Space Agency)

RusssstyMar 30
The #ArtemisII crew is going to be powered by tortillas.
Show threadRusssstyMar 28

A sneak peek at the #ArtemisII trajectory...

Captured at Mission Time 08:06:36:00 (2026-04-10), Orion is seen on its return leg to Earth at 1.65 km/s. This is the "Free-Return" in action, four days after the spacecraft reached Perilune.

It bears repeating:
This mission is a massive international achievement, regardless of the MAGA noise.
The spacecraft is powered by the European Service Module (ESM-2) made by #ESA/Airbus in Bremen.

RusssstyJan 15

According to NASA’s latest statement, the Artemis II rollout is scheduled to begin at approximately 12:00 UTC on Saturday, Jan. 17. Preparations for the crawler-transporter 2 began on Jan. 9

📷 NASA/Ben Smegelsky

#ArtemisII #Artemis2

RusssstyNov 30, 2025

Today is my "Space Sunday," so I was coding a bit for @wawn and I hit a snag.
The JPL ephemeris data places comet 24P/Schaumasse in the wrong quadrant — I double-checked the math, so the error must be in the Horizons data.
The JPL Orbit Viewer shows the comet in the "correct" region, but its trajectory doesn't match the official perihelion on 08.01.
Maybe there's new epoch data in the API I can't find, but either way, something is off.

I might need a new hobby to recover from my hobby.

RusssstyNov 13, 2025
...and as we talk about usability today, and it extends to AI systems, here is the wisdom of the day:
RusssstyNov 12, 2025

A Christmas letter to Santa?
Nah, not exciting enough...

Did you know the Moon had an unauthorized "mail service'?
Apollo astronauts were allowed to bring Personal Preference Kits. And so, valuable contraband postal covers, often sought by collectors, were successfully flown on missions 11, 13, and 14.
But the unauthorized covers carried by the Apollo 15 crew sparked a major scandal when they were sold for profit.

Photo: David Scott canceling an envelope on the lunar surface.

RusssstyAug 28, 2025
These novels are not for the faint of heart.
RusssstyJul 28, 2025

A few weeks ago, I deployed a server instance for a private PoC. Since it was nothing important, I forgot about it. It ran for days with a bare-bones setup: default SSH port, no key auth, no fail2ban, nothing. The server endured thousands of brute-force login attempts.
This sparked my interest, so I threw the data into Python for better visualization.

I think I'll keep the instance as a honeypot, just for fun, to see if Mitch from Paris is still knocking on my door.