Ilya Stepanov
ilyastepanov.com
Ilya Stepanov
@ilyastepanov.com
Senior technical debt collector. I make computers go brrrrrr. I mostly use Python, sometimes Go, Swift, JS. Physics and space nerd.

📍Portland, Oregon
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[january 1, 0001]

joseph: wtf just happened to the calendar?

mary: um, no idea
December 18, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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If you've never heard a penguin being tickled, here's a penguin being tickled.🔊🆙
October 21, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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Happy 116th birthday, spacetime. 🧪 🔭

Hermann Minkowski addressed the 80th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Physicians #OTD in 1908, offering a radical four-dimensional reformulation of Einstein's theory of special relativity.

Here is how he opened his address:
September 21, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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"You will feel pain in this hand within the box. Pain. But! Withdraw the hand and I'll touch your neck with my gom jabbar--the death so swift it's like the fall of the headsman's axe. Withdraw your hand and the gom jabbar takes you. Understand?"
November 8, 2023 at 3:46 PM
Top 10% 💪
September 16, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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Just to make things clear, this might be the best-timed shot in science TV history. In the BBC series "Connections", James Burke points to a rocket just as it launches. It was filmed on August 20, 1977, during the launch of Voyager 2 spacecraft. 🧪🚀
September 11, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.
July 4, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Oh boy, $150,000!
July 2, 2024 at 1:30 AM
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WHO IS BLASTING 4'33" OUTSIDE MY WINDOW AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT!?
April 25, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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absolutely fuckin losing it lol this AI yearbook page.
April 13, 2024 at 10:28 PM
April 8, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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Happy anniversary to the event that inspired one of my favourite poems.
March 24, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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Physics vs. Magic xkcd.com/2904
March 8, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs
February 22, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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Tesla out there just making the survivorship bias meme.
October 21, 2023 at 2:39 PM
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Graysky is a brand-new app for Bluesky, released today for iOS and Android. Here's a quick run-through of all the features you can expect:
October 21, 2023 at 9:28 AM
Captured solar eclipse from Southern Oregon
October 14, 2023 at 11:38 PM
HONK
goose nonsense
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September 29, 2023 at 9:32 PM
Neighborhood watch
August 29, 2023 at 8:22 PM
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Skeet with this blessing: SHITPOSTING is an anagram of TOP INSIGHTS.
April 28, 2023 at 12:36 AM
August 22, 2023 at 3:37 PM