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Here’s a chronological list containing every post I’ve made. Art, fiction, photos… it’s all here.
I took these photos of Starship’s flight from Isla Blanca Park at South Padre Island, TX.
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How to use Blender Cycles volumetrics to make realistic-looking rocket exhaust.
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So, I bought a van. It’s a 2017 Ford Transit, and now I need to return this van to a pristine, near-factory state; a blank canvas to build upon, if you will. Here’s how I did it.
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I created a font based on my handwriting. Here’s how I did it.
I built a powerful static site generator for hackers and builders. It’s more configurable and extendable than any SSG I’ve ever used.
I took these photos of Starship’s flight from Isla Blanca Park at South Padre Island, TX.
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Vertex Oven is an addon for Blender 3D that bakes ambient occlusion to vertex data.
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Three months later, for my birthday, my parents’ gift was a lizard – a bearded dragon. My parents had even gotten a terrarium with a layer of store-bought gravel, and my dragon looked happy to be sunning on the gray rock under the heat lamp. In a fit of giddy irony, I named her Clyde.
On May 2, 2017, Tom Mueller, propulsion CTO at SpaceX, conducted a speech/interview with some members of the New York University Astronomy Society. This was streamed live on Twitch; I’ve transcribed it with the help of u/dansemacabred2, u/jclishman, and u/Zucal. Many thanks!
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