Mx Ralph Giles

open source, space stuff, books and dead languages.

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

“I don't need periods to mark the end of my thought. That's what the paragraph break is for!”

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

My kid tried @AberlourVC scotch for the first time after dinner. Described it as, 'It smells sweet and grassy. But when you drink it, it punches you in the face, then gives you a kiss!' 😁

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

@PonteIneptique Thanks for publishing such a useful set of tools!

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

All of Europe was like that for me.

[NASA's Juno Mission @NASAJuno]

Beautiful abyss: I captured this view of a dark-centered vortex on May 29, as I performed my 20th science flyby of #Jupiter. See details at
https://t.co/FlnWfX0nXe

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

How is this for an effect that was thought to be unobservable 200 years ago?

I think this holds a lesson for quantum gravity. Those saying now the effects are unobservably small will be proved wrong 200 years from now.

[DSCOVR:EPIC @dscovr_epic]

22:58 on Wednesday May 22nd, over the North Pacific Ocean

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

Reading Mari letters continues this week without @willismonroe We won't say we wish you were here, since you're enjoying the real thing. 😃 #Akkadian

[Thomas Appéré @thomas_appere]

Selfie réalisé par le rover @MarsCuriosity aujourd'hui ! En voici un assemblage rapide des 41 photos qui nous sont parvenues, j'attends les dernières pour en faire une version propre #workinprogress

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

@xiphmont Good experiment to do! Dodeca/icosahedrons are hard. I always have to look up the verticies. A reason to introduce OpenSCAD?

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

I'm trying the (northern) summer of code again, this year from the other side!

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

This also very much applies to the way software companies select interns.

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

@DPC_22 @rustlang

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

Move you phone to look around. Two-finger touch to zoom out on mobile.

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

I guess this answers my question about how GitHub manages to control spam and harassment... :(

[Tara Vancil @taravancil]

When I was working on Beaker, a dude would comb through my git history and “review” my commits. GitHub used to be fun for me, now I avoid it at all costs

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

What a difference a colour map (doesn't) make!

[Stefan A.L. Weber @StefanALWeber]

One day after #EventHorizon announced their picure of a #BlackHole, we finally managed to image a #protein ring using #AFM yesterday - there is a factor of ten sextillion (10^22) between the scalebars of those two images.

[Elad Radson @EladRadson]

Just received from SpaceIL communication team what appears to be the last image #Beresheet spacecraft managed to beam to earth before it crashed on the moons surface

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

@paulcoxon @TRIUMFLab Where can I get those awesome drive modules?

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

Nice to see OpenH264 get general playback support!

[Christian Schaller @cfkschaller]

Fedora Workstation 30 is now in Beta, so I put together a little blog post about some of the items we have been working on there - https://t.co/IVO8cWodAJ

[Mx Ralph Giles @rillian]

I really hate this bug where xkb syntax errors crash gnome-shell.