Jake Robins
@JakeOnOrbit
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Space Geek, Podcaster, YouTuber, JavaScript Developer. 🇨🇦 in 🇲🇽 Host @we_martians & @offnom
Mérida, Yucatán
Joined January 2017
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currently on my annual "wow Canada has gotten expensive" trip, but poking my head up for air tomorrow for @offnom and counting on @acolangelo to catch me up has there been any space news in the last three weeks or
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The topic of Starliner is back in our newsletter today. Are the astronauts stranded? Probably not. Can NASA just say if Starliner can come home right now? Also probably not
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Howdy space cadets, it’s Loren Grush in Austin. Have you caught all the headlines about Boeing’s Starliner capsule being stuck in space, leaving its crew stranded? NASA and Boeing aren’t too happy...
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I had some complicated feelings during the Hubble reboost mission debate that a 10 year old paper on space religion helped me sort through. https://t.co/CdNLciYqpV
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jake is traveling this week so no live show, but we did prep one for you, don’t worry Jake traveling also means I forgot to tweet this before now, but the show is premiering on youtube so it’s 22 mins in right now and you can join in (or watch it later) https://t.co/JmbBSsLc6U
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In honor of Juneteenth, I wrote my first-ever op-ed, which SpaceNews published today. I encourage you to read it and check out the fantastic work the @PGSFellowship is doing to improve diversity in the space sector.
America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally flew. Now it’s time to make more https://t.co/PkrCq8s4xA
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UK to be blasted by 48 hour 26C heatwave with five cities in England the hottest https://t.co/lYqEVaMDoB
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The Oilers cap we bought in Edmonton when we lived there for the 2006 cup run. It’s made its way down the priority cap list to work hat and it’s on its last legs, but 18 years later it’s back to get this team through the finals. #GoOilers
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When I moved to Yucatán, I also standardized on one type of footwear - none. I never lose socks, I never have to match, and it's free! Checkmate.
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Shout out to @SaraSoueidan whose Practical Accessibility course primed me with lots of the skills I needed to see this through properly. Her course is on sale currently, too! Check it out if you're interested in this topic. https://t.co/ytnaI916Z8
practical-accessibility.today
A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today
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I wrote up some lessons on Web Accessibility that I learned while building a cool SVG Map component where users could select states/provinces visually. https://t.co/IXJfjn1iLa
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I get asked a lot by students about dependencies and how to select them in a web project, so I wrote out some thoughts on how I do it! https://t.co/mJdjvkP9nh
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I am making mead. I have no idea what I'm doing . Pray for me. https://t.co/n2qWcbLdHG
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Written almost 10 years ago, "Just" remains one of the most impactful posts I've written: https://t.co/1oDOAf1EmH “Just” is a dangerous word.
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I feel like an idiot while doing my job. A lot. Now there’s a damn good chance I’m actually an idiot, but the self-respecting part of me wants to challenge that notion. When I get stuck on a task or...
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Nighttime photo of Iberia from @Space_Station, including all of Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, North Africa, and some of France, showing a rich history of human development. At night it becomes obvious where civilization is by the way we sprinkle our light bulbs across Earth, and
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