The Falcon 1 is small potatoes now, but reporting on its development is really what got me hooked on @SpaceX. Loved the tales of a bunch of 20 somethings stuck on Kwajalein Atoll trying to make a rocket fly.
The company ended up being one tiny error on the fourth launch from going out of business, but it somehow launched and survived.
Am still so amused by @elonmusk reading rocket books post PayPal and now getting to this point. Seems just about impossible.
Is a shame there has not been a movie made about these times. Hollywood kinda hates Elon and doesn't want to see it made, but it's the ultimate next chapter to The Right Stuff.
Oh yes, I remember that Bond film where the villain decarbonized the auto industry, brought fast internet to everyone on the planet, and helped paralyzed people interact with the world again.
Very inspiring words from Elon Musk today:
"I always think about this. There are always problems on earth. There’s always things that we wish to be better, that we want to solve on Earth, and we should solve them. But there there also has to be things that get you excited about the future — that make you glad to wake up in the morning, because you can’t wait to see what happens next.
That’s the future @SpaceX wants to bring to you."
Let’s goooooo🚀
ANTONIO GRACIAS on @SpaceX: “We have 20,000 people here. They're some of the best engineers in the world.
“And what we're building is the entire stack from, energy to compute, to launch to orbital compute.
“What an investor is buying today, we've been buying for really 20 years — is the ability to help make the future is being part of this extraordinary company.”
“It is certainly hard to believe that a little company (@SpaceX) that started in a warehouse in El Segundo is now going public with the largest IPO ever.”
@elonmusk
Grok Build just got a major update with a ton of new features and improvements
Release Notes: v0.2.51
Breaking Changes:
• grok mcp add now accepts positional arguments (e.g. grok mcp add filesystem -- npx ...), supports --scope project, and adds -e/-H flags for env/headers.
Features:
• Mermaid flowcharts now render subgraph blocks as titled frames with correct internal and cross-boundary edges.
• Class diagrams in Mermaid now render as proper UML boxes with attributes, methods and inheritance arrows instead of raw source.
• Permission prompts now accept a double-click on an option to submit it, matching the existing Enter and number-key shortcuts.
• New /code-review slash command now ships with the CLI and is always available
Bug Fixes:
• Plan mode exit reminders no longer appear after the model has already started implementing the plan.
• Expanded thinking blocks in scrollback now remain expanded when the agent finishes them.
• grok update no longer downloads the same binary twice when multiple updaters or leader checks run concurrently.
• Background task IDs after /compact are now shown verbatim so the model can reference them correctly in later tool calls.
• Typing / while scrollback is focused now focuses the prompt and opens the slash-command dropdown.