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1972 ➡️2026 Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II

.@runevision shared a breakdown of his GPU-friendly terrain erosion filter, designed to emulate erosion without simulation and simple to generate in chunks. The code is available: 80.lv/articles/fast-…

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant. - No VC funding. - No viral launch. - No TED talk. - Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve. He built a language that fit in kilobytes. 50 years later, it runs everything. Linux kernel. Windows. macOS. Every iPhone. Every Android. NASA’s deep space probes. The International Space Station. > Python borrowed from it. > Java borrowed from it. > JavaScript borrowed from it. If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow. He died in 2011. The same week as Steve Jobs. Jobs got the front pages. Ritchie got silence. This Legend deserves to be celebrated.

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A newly surfaced image shows a U.S. Air Force B21 Raider stealth bomber receiving fuel mid air from a KC135 Stratotanker, marking the first known photo of the aircraft refueling in flight. Image: @minor_triad

The Finnish Air Force conducted joint flight sorties with a NATO E-3A Sentry AWACS aircraft on Tuesday, 3 March 2026, in Finnish airspace. 🇫🇮 This was the first time a NATO E-3A Sentry AWACS has flown a mission in Finland. @NATO_AIRCOM @JFCNorfolk

F-22 Raptor

3D modeling a Fernet bottle on a 2007 Nokia The author is Dante Leoncini, an Argentine programmer and 3D designer who built Blendersito from scratch in C/C++ for Symbian OS starting around 2022.

Pooya Moradi M. presented a demo made with Meshcapade, an AI-powered, markerless motion capture software. It was recently acquired by Epic Games: 80.lv/articles/ai-mo…

The Boeing 777-300ER completed its first flight ON THIS DAY in 2003

In 20 years, vibe coders will look at the Linux kernel repo the way we look at the pyramids. In awe, unable to imagine how they managed to drag all those giant stones and pile them up in the middle of the desert.

That’s all Folks🔥🔥 Leaving you… …#OnAMissileToGod🚀 #TomcatTuesday 📺 Burner IRST

Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 (1997)

The Boeing 757 operated its first flight ON THIS DAY in 1982

The world’s first video game, played on its original 1957 hardware. In October 1958, physicist William Higinbotham developed what is widely recognized as the first video game, Tennis for Two, to entertain visitors at a public exhibition at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Unlike later digital consoles, the game ran on a Donner Model 30 analog computer and displayed graphics on a five-inch oscilloscope. Players controlled the action with custom aluminum controllers featuring a knob to set the ball’s angle and a button to hit it over a simulated net. While earlier electronic creations like the 1947 Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device or 1950’s Bertie the Brain existed, Tennis for Two is notable as the first game designed purely for entertainment, rather than research or technical demonstration. Although the original hardware was dismantled in 1959, and no intact version survives, modern replicas have been built to celebrate this groundbreaking moment in gaming history.

Big news: @Meshcapade is now part of Epic Games. This is a perfect match for our technology and team and I am super excited about what we will build together. I want to thank our many supporters who have provided funding and/or advice on our journey from 2018 to today, including @MP_Innovation, @maxplanckpress, @MPI_IS, @PerceivingSys, @matrixvc, @dcstalder, @dianaberlin, @HV_Capital, Zuzanna Czapinska, LBBW VC, @GoodwaterCap, CLO Virtual Fashion (@itsclo3d), @grbradsk, @lucvincent, @JeffDean, @ballmatthew, Andrew Hamel, Bill O’Farrell, Ammar Zakiullah, @Nicolas_Keller, Alex Diehl, @goodwinlaw, YPOG, @NVIDIA Inception Program, @msft4startups, and many more! Most importantly, I want to thank my co-founders @naureenmahmood and Talha Zaman and the whole @Meshcapade team. There is nothing more rewarding than working with great people who you like and trust to build products that customers love using technology you believe in. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now, on to the next phase! mpg.de/26082348/max-p…

✈️ F-22: Air Dominance Fighter is OUT NOW on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3146140/F2… Simmers, retro pilots — this one’s for you. -Command the skies in full AWACS mode 🛰️ -Master classic 90s avionics 🧠 -Fly it in up to 4K 🔥 Built by Digital Image Design>, published by MicroProse> — a legend returns. 🎯 Strap in and play now. The Red Sea awaits.

Reviewing Claude Code output before pushing directly to prod

Best military flight-sim ever, especially the AWACS mode.

Kick-start your real-time VFX in Unreal Engine with the new Niagara Examples Pack🚀 50+ VFX systems you can explore, break apart, and adapt to your needs, including explosions, ballistic impacts, sparks, fire, and more. ✨🔥 Out now on @Fab! epic.gm/niagara-samples