I love space and I'm kind of excited about Artemis II but I have to tell you..
it's very hard feeling pride in the accomplishment when I'm literally trying to get out of this country as fast as I can and not because I want to.
Artemis II got their wakeup call today from Jim Lovell - apparently recorded shortly before he passed.
Very cool
My therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the @cdnspace Artemis II dashboard.
I reverse-engineered the Unity Engine powering the NASA AROW visualization and found an absolute treasure trove of data to display.
Little did I expect that it's now being seen by anywhere from 200 to 600 people at any given time with 130,000 people having looked at it in the last 24 hours. People are even building projects around my API.
Yesterday, I received a message on LinkedIn from someone working in Mission Control in Houston... and they're using my dashboard! He even sent me a photo, but I can't share it until after the crew has splashed down.
Mind blown, and an absolute pick-me-up. The best part? It's being served from my basement.
If there is a crack that someone can fall through in a process or a weird unhandled edge case, I'll find it and I'll fall through it. I'm a perpetual outlier.
I'm starting to think I'm some sort of factory test standard that somehow made it through QC and got shipped out.
I am the human equivalent of an EICAR string.
Still thinking about how yesterday at the record shop a kid pointed at an album on the display shelf and asked his dad who the people were. The dad said “Janis Joplin and the guitar player for Black Sabbath”
It was Lindsy Buckingham and Stevie Nicks from the cover of Buckingham Nicks.
It said “Buckingham Nicks” on it.