Matt Simmons 🚀🛰️
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SRE @VardaSpace - Formerly @ SpaceX/Starlink. Married to @wallmalker1 - I enjoy painting, electronics, and reusable space hardware. he/him
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When you understand that the entire universe is “space”, you’ll understand why so many of us want to explore it.
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Some bad news: On Sunday, I had a pretty spectacular heart attack. Fortunately I made it to the hospital before I crashed, but I died several times during the transfer between facilities. I lived, though, thanks to dedicated medical professionals and a lot of luck.
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Americans will use anything except the metric system
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At SpaceX, you earn every patch, but I *really* earned this one
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“If I had to narrow it down, I’d say the two biggest risks are the hardware and the software”
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I believe people who report sexual harassment.
I did not come to work at SpaceX because of Elon Musk. I want to help accomplish a mission that I feel is important, and that's 100% my focus. Not on any one person nor on any of the many, many issues they may have.
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Stolen blatantly from Imgur because it's funny. And I hate JavaScript.
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I had a 100% blocked Left Anterior Descending artery - the “widow maker”. Every male on my mother’s side of the family has had one of these, and somehow I am the first to survive. I am incredibly fortunate.
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I’m taking a medical leave of absence for a bit to get myself back in decent shape. After a heart attack, your heart is less efficient. It usually gets better over time, though. I feel remarkably good given what happened, and all of my nursing staff say that I’m doing great.
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Did literally ANYONE think that the ENTIRE FUCKING STACK would cartwheel around in the sky, not detaching?!? OMG!
If you’re going to blow something up, at least make it spectacular.
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SpaceX successfully flew a booster for the 9th time last night. Tenth is going to happen soon, no doubt. Right now, if you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of detractors moving goalposts.
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I put this on Facebook first, since that’s where most of my family and older friends are, but the outpouring of support has been tremendous and I am so lucky to have such a terrific support network. I really love all of you folks.
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Update: I am now home from the hospital after my heart attack on Jan 2. They put a stent in my LAD artery, and after spending a couple of days in the ICU, I got to come home yesterday.
I am very grateful to everyone who reached out with kind thoughts. Thank you so much.
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“No, look, we can’t upgrade beyond Docker 20.10, okay? That’s the last version ChatGPT knows about and if we move past it, who knows what the devs will end up committing to prod”
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@RebecaD007
I am so very sorry.
I don’t know if it’s any consolation, but during my heart attack earlier this year, I died several times, fortunately revived by the doctors each time.
Each time for me was completely painless. It was comfortable and like going to sleep. No suffering.
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I HATE THIS STUPID DESIGN BUT GODDAMNIT IT LOOKS GREAT IN BLACK AND IF IT HAD A RED SWISHY SENSOR BAR I'D BUY IT BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE A TRUCK VERSION OF KITT. OH MY GOD WHO AM I?
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@IwriteOK
I appreciate that MC Hammer, the gentleman who introduced me to parachute pants in the 6th grade, is bringing me this information.
This is a really weird timeline.
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About midway through, I was like, “wait it out, I’ve recovered from this in Kerbal before”
I am deeply in love with whoever is deciding to not hit the FTS yet
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After taking a few months off, I am heading back to work.
Happy to announce that I’ll be starting at
@VardaSpace
in May as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer! Looking forward to joining the team and helping to advance the state of in-space manufacturing!
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I don’t want to be coy about this, but... does anyone want to come help me build a planetary service mesh?
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This is what it was like at the
@VardaSpace
launch party when we saw our vehicle separate from the
@SpaceX
Falcon 9! Great day so far!
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My career has basically been this, but needing to do it anyway
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Well, that was a wild ride. Had a blast, but after 8 years, I’m taking a break.
What did I miss?
#SpaceExer
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@Meggleberries
@DJSnM
I am pretty sure that in zero cases, the engineers have been the problem here. I have nothing but respect for the engineers at NASA. The political steering of this program is almost entirely to blame. NASA engineers are great.
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Happy to announce that, starting Jan 2nd, I’m going to be taking a three month sabbatical from SpaceX and spending some much needed R&R.
Given the current covid situation, I think some road trips are the best I can do, but that will still be a nice way to unwind.
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I have slept about 5 hours in the past 5 days between being on call and on console for this mission, and this is the proudest I’ve ever been of a work thing.
Thanks
@RocketLab
for all of the amazing work over the past few days, and thank you for getting our spaceship home safe.
W-1 is home 🌎 🛰️
A phenomenal effort from our space systems team. Bullseye for our first reentry mission.
Thank you to the
@VardaSpace
team. Let's do it all again for W-2 soon.
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We are getting closer to the time when Google retires their public cloud offering. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
Google just killed google domains.
Amazing.
It’s so on brand that it’s like they don’t realize the strategic value of building a brand that supports its customers 🤦♂️
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I’m sure nothing bad will come of this discovery
30 lead tablets, engraved with curses, that invoked the gods of the underworld in order to cause harm to others, have been discovered at the bottom of a 2,500 year old well in Athens.
#archaeology
#Greece
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Would you like to come work with me, help build the largest fleet of satellites the world has ever seen, and help humanity get to Mars? My Seattle team is hiring an SRE. Check it out!
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While talking to one of my reports who has worked for me for many months:
Him: “I’ve never opened excel, so this may be a few minutes”
Me: “How have you never opened excel?!?”
Him: “If it needs a spreadsheet, I’ve always just figured it was a manager thing and sent it to you”
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Man,
@johnkrausphotos
does such beautiful work. Proud to have him help document our spaceship's adventure. Nice job dude!
Some photos from our team's recovery of W-1:
(1) W-1 chute catching in the wind
(2) / (3) Recovery team getting the capsule ready for transport
(4) Capsule transport in a sling under a recovery helicopter
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Today, I installed go, just so I could take perfectly good yaml files, encode them in json, abstract them, code them into templates using jsonnet, then run a bespoke build script that re-converts them to yaml & applies them to a K8s API.
Teaching sand to think was a mistake.
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This is a really great observation: "The Carrot Problem"
When people or companies lie about how they obtain success, other people who want success listen to them and fail.
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The people blaming Starlink for the sub going missing are _hilarious_.
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Today, I hit a milestone, and ran for 2 miles in my cardiac therapy class. It was the first time since my heart attack that running felt really, really good again.
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@RebecaD007
It is awful to lose someone and I became very aware after this experience that it is much harder leaving people behind, than going.
I hope you have a support network who can make you feel loved and not alone.
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Well, this heart attack happened one year ago today. It’s been a whirlwind year, healing, moving back to be with family and friends, and then continuing work on Starlink, which had a bonkers year. It’s been intense and exhausting but I’m grateful I survived.
Some bad news: On Sunday, I had a pretty spectacular heart attack. Fortunately I made it to the hospital before I crashed, but I died several times during the transfer between facilities. I lived, though, thanks to dedicated medical professionals and a lot of luck.
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If I'm ever able to go to an in-person conference again, my new standard greeting is going to be, "Hi, nice to meet you. I'm Matt Simmons. Are you Ian Coldwater?" because I have no idea what they look like, and odds are good that whomever I'm meeting will just say yes anyway.
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Quick, buy Cessna stock before it’s announced!
@idontwa86202030
"This aerospace company does not have a large amount of space business presently, but it has been looking to make strategic expansion ..."
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Don’t give me a hard time about fixing failures by restarting pods. The entirety of the last 10 years has been progress toward ephemeral workload so that we can fix things by rebooting them.
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Today was my first day back in the office after my heart attack. It we really great seeing everyone again, and I got a very warm welcome. It’s nice to be back.
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@DrSianProctor
No, I’m still wearing a mask on flights. Other people lowering their safety standard makes it more important to increase yours.
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Has everyone else basically given up on raspberry pi’s too? I’m basically just committed to building stuff around used small form factor PCs at this point, since they cost the same as a Pi and are more powerful.
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No. That’s why it was so cheap and quickly built.
Is there a propulsion system on SLS that is less than 40 years old?
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@MistialD
I literally just made it with a generator, so, no, but please feel free to have it done. If you make money on it, send me a few stickers plz :-D
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Don’t you fucking play with me like this, Disney. Don’t you play with my emotions. I can’t take another betrayal. You had best not be playing.
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If 20 years ago, you told me that I would someday using the open-source IDE written by Microsoft to connect to a Linux machine that shipped natively on the Windows OS I was using, I would have thought you were using drugs. Like, really weird drugs.
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I am 30ft underground in a nuclear hardened Titan II Silo and I have 1 bar.
@tmobile
should be proud of themselves.
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@plankers
@joebarnard
I think I’ll remember them as the agency that nailed a Mars mission on their first try. That was incredible to me.
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Literally yes, that's what the sign says.
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If you *ever* see that color of gas, you need to go the other way. Nothing good looks like that.
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#UPDATE
: New footage of truck carrying nitric acid a hazardous material overturned on I-10 in Tucson, Arizona, people warned to shelter in place for yellow smoke can be seen 1/2 miles away
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shoutout to whoever decided to play this elevator music on the spacex stream. wow.
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The closest planet to Earth, on average, is Mercury.
Good night.
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There are rumors that Google is getting rid of the SRE role within the company, and honestly, I believe it.
What could be more on-brand than Google killing something that is still good and useful, especially when doing so will cause major turmoil in the industry?
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The OSI 7-layer model. To show Kubernetes, just nest this half a dozen times.
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I’m visiting Starbase this week, checking out how things have changed since 2021. Much more ground infrastructure, even considering the…uhh…excitement last week. Very cool to see it all!
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I just finished Season 1 of The Good Place. So many things.
1) why did nobody have me watch this before now?
2) thank you, universe, for not spoiling it by me accidentally reading anything before this
3) if you haven’t seen it yet, so it now. No reading, just watch.
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Found this absolute gem in a thrift store today. Let me know if you want scans of the table of contents.
#1993
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They said that intermittent fasting helps improve your awareness, and they’re right. I’ve been doing it for three days now, and I can hear a pop tart being unwrapped at 20 meters.
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@ask_aubry
Omg I’ve been saying this for so long - the reason they say being gay is a choice is because they made a choice to “be” straight
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I think in exchange for getting a blue check mark on Twitter, you should be unable to delete your tweets.
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I don’t usually have New Years Resolutions, but I think I’m going to start doing this as my resolution. You’re welcome.
#RingTheBell
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@hankgreen
I like that evolution has determined that exact distance to show how dumb the pollinators are. Would be neat if we had that kind of indicator for humans.
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Hey, who's that guy in Mission Control peeping graphs?
In 48 hours, this room will be controlling the world's first space factory
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Just so it’s out there and Twitter Official, I’m going to be relocating to the Seattle area next month. I’m staying with my current employer, but I’ve been working heavily with the engineers up there lately, so it makes good sense for me to be there too. Let’s hang out sometime!
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It makes me sad that PawSense is incompatible with Yubikey’s OTP feature set.
Security, but at what cost?
#CatlikeTypingDetected
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No joke, one of the failure modes I was thinking about was whether the mass of the fully propped ship was going to cause some kind of failure at the stage interface, but I was afraid it would fail early, not stay attached the entire time.
A+ to the structural engineers. Wow.
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Everyone can have their own opinions, but if I ever tweet this, geolocation will be turned on for that tweet and you need to come and find me, because I’ll have been kidnapped.
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The TVC is the real hero here
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I don't have a degree. So far, I've worked for a Wall St risk analytics firm where everyone else had a Masters at minimum, an accredited university, and now, I work for SpaceX as a Lead IT Systems Engineer.
Requiring a degree for our work is shooting yourself in the foot.
I don't have a degree.
It's gotten to the point where when people ask me to review job descriptions that have a degree requirement I hand it back to them with a "sorry, I'm not qualified to review this."
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Microsoft is said to have acquired GitHub:
10 years ago, this would be a horror story. You would see rending of garments in the street.
Today? I actually dig what Microsoft is doing. Kudos to them and the path they're on. Personally, I blame
@jsnover
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Just got my COVID vaccine. Waiting in the line to exit, it’s impossible to not reflect back to a year ago when we thought that a vaccine might take several years to develop. We got this safe vaccine by throwing the world’s research capabilities at the problem, and I am grateful.
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