Phil Naranjo
@philnaranjo.bsky.social
He/Him. Product Management Director @ Tableau | Building AI-driven insights to make data intuitive. 🤖📊 Space enthusiast, orbital mechanics nerd, and radio astronomy fan 📡. Passionate about cooking, gardening, and exploring the American Pacific Northwest 🏔️
I was reading that after 48 years, the Z80 microprocessor finally ended production in 2024. An 8-bit superstar that powered arcade cabinets, homebrew dreams, and whole eras of computing. Hard to believe a chip from 1976 outlived so many of its successors. 🤯 #trs80
November 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I was reading that after 48 years, the Z80 microprocessor finally ended production in 2024. An 8-bit superstar that powered arcade cabinets, homebrew dreams, and whole eras of computing. Hard to believe a chip from 1976 outlived so many of its successors. 🤯 #trs80
Japan once dreamed of a winged craft called HOPE, a spaceplane meant to slip from orbit and land like a thought returning to Earth.
But the Cold War thawed, budgets cooled, and the vision dissolved like spores in sunlight.
But the Cold War thawed, budgets cooled, and the vision dissolved like spores in sunlight.
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Japan once dreamed of a winged craft called HOPE, a spaceplane meant to slip from orbit and land like a thought returning to Earth.
But the Cold War thawed, budgets cooled, and the vision dissolved like spores in sunlight.
But the Cold War thawed, budgets cooled, and the vision dissolved like spores in sunlight.
Europe once built a mockup for a 3-seat spaceplane called Hermes. It could’ve launched on Ariane 5 and glided home like a mini-Shuttle. Then politics killed it.
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Europe once built a mockup for a 3-seat spaceplane called Hermes. It could’ve launched on Ariane 5 and glided home like a mini-Shuttle. Then politics killed it.
September 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I’m gonna try to re-create this vintage video game using #PICO-8. It re-creates recovering and stowing a satellite using the space shuttle orbiter manipulator arm. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with writing a little program that would do just the same thing.
July 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I’m gonna try to re-create this vintage video game using #PICO-8. It re-creates recovering and stowing a satellite using the space shuttle orbiter manipulator arm. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with writing a little program that would do just the same thing.
Planning a few summer trips to do stargazing and spend quality time with friends. I have a #shiftpod and stay cool in the mornings with a #zerobreeze mark two air conditioner. I power its batteries in my electronics with two 200 W 24 V, 6A solar panels.
July 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Planning a few summer trips to do stargazing and spend quality time with friends. I have a #shiftpod and stay cool in the mornings with a #zerobreeze mark two air conditioner. I power its batteries in my electronics with two 200 W 24 V, 6A solar panels.
Sad to see @Astrodon.social shutting down today. A rare corner of the #Mastadon Fediverse where astronomers, scientists, and space geeks shared wonder. Low usage + high cost caught up. 💫
Looking for space-related Fediverse recommendations. Not yet sure about future independence of #bluesky
Looking for space-related Fediverse recommendations. Not yet sure about future independence of #bluesky
July 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
My other fave. About 9,000 DeLorean DMC-12s were made from 1981–1983. Known for stainless steel panels and gullwing doors, it’s a 1980s icon. Today, prices range from ~$30K for a project car to over $80K for restored models. Rare, quirky, and still turning heads.
July 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My other fave. About 9,000 DeLorean DMC-12s were made from 1981–1983. Known for stainless steel panels and gullwing doors, it’s a 1980s icon. Today, prices range from ~$30K for a project car to over $80K for restored models. Rare, quirky, and still turning heads.
I took my daughters to the #Seattle Greenwood Classic Car Show this weekend. The early 70s Datsun #240Z is my favorite car. It brought sleek, European-style sports car aesthetics (think Jaguar E-Type or Ferrari 275) to the masses, but with Japanese reliability,engineering precision, street cool.
July 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🚀 Space sleuth speculation: #Apollo 10’s “Snoopy” is still tumbling through heliocentric orbit. Just ~4m wide & likely dulled by 55 years of space weathering, but it could cast an artificial light curve due to angular surfaces,. Could Rubin catch it glinting at mag ~25? #rubinobservatory #space
June 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
🚀 Space sleuth speculation: #Apollo 10’s “Snoopy” is still tumbling through heliocentric orbit. Just ~4m wide & likely dulled by 55 years of space weathering, but it could cast an artificial light curve due to angular surfaces,. Could Rubin catch it glinting at mag ~25? #rubinobservatory #space
I saw this fabulous #StarWars hippie AT-AT @ #Seattle’s beloved Summer Solstice parade people-powered. ❤️ #2025
June 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I saw this fabulous #StarWars hippie AT-AT @ #Seattle’s beloved Summer Solstice parade people-powered. ❤️ #2025
The North American F-100 Super Sabre: first USAF jet to sustain supersonic speed in level flight. Sleek, loud, and titanium-hungry, it marked a leap from WWII-era jets to the Cold War’s needle-nosed future.
That striped boom? A pitot-static probe for measuring Mach-speed precision during flt test.
That striped boom? A pitot-static probe for measuring Mach-speed precision during flt test.
May 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The North American F-100 Super Sabre: first USAF jet to sustain supersonic speed in level flight. Sleek, loud, and titanium-hungry, it marked a leap from WWII-era jets to the Cold War’s needle-nosed future.
That striped boom? A pitot-static probe for measuring Mach-speed precision during flt test.
That striped boom? A pitot-static probe for measuring Mach-speed precision during flt test.
The Monk & Robot books by Becky Chambers have stayed with me. In a solarpunk world, robots gain awareness and choose not to rise up, but withdraw like Samana monks in the forests of ancient India. Gentle, curious, and full of quiet wisdom. Tea, kindness, the question: What do people need? #Booksky
April 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The Monk & Robot books by Becky Chambers have stayed with me. In a solarpunk world, robots gain awareness and choose not to rise up, but withdraw like Samana monks in the forests of ancient India. Gentle, curious, and full of quiet wisdom. Tea, kindness, the question: What do people need? #Booksky
Magical high tea at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver. Sipping teas inside a cozy garden dome, nibbling on treats inspired by Paris, Bombay, & beyond -every bite felt like a passport stamp! “Around the World in 80 Days” theme. Recommend if you’re craving elegance, whimsy, a little edible adventure.
April 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Magical high tea at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver. Sipping teas inside a cozy garden dome, nibbling on treats inspired by Paris, Bombay, & beyond -every bite felt like a passport stamp! “Around the World in 80 Days” theme. Recommend if you’re craving elegance, whimsy, a little edible adventure.
Saw Not the Whole Picture by Garth Amundson & Pierre Gour at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham. A powerful, intimate collage of identity, memory, and migration through manipulated vintage photography. A reminder that every image has a hidden history.
April 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Saw Not the Whole Picture by Garth Amundson & Pierre Gour at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham. A powerful, intimate collage of identity, memory, and migration through manipulated vintage photography. A reminder that every image has a hidden history.
In the novel Neuromancer, AI superintelligence finds evidence of an extraterrestrial AI in 1970s #SETI signals. Could this become reality? Decades of radio sky data—voluminous, unprocessed, chaotic—may hold modulated signals too subtle for us. As AI evolves, it might reveal what we can’t grasp.
March 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
In the novel Neuromancer, AI superintelligence finds evidence of an extraterrestrial AI in 1970s #SETI signals. Could this become reality? Decades of radio sky data—voluminous, unprocessed, chaotic—may hold modulated signals too subtle for us. As AI evolves, it might reveal what we can’t grasp.
Stacked for the weekend (if I can find the time): AI in Scientific American + The Planetary Report, cosmic dives in Sky & Telescope, rewilding with We Are the ARK, and orbital math via Celestial Calculations. Space, soil, code—everything I’m curious about in one pile. 📚 ✨ #booksky
March 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Stacked for the weekend (if I can find the time): AI in Scientific American + The Planetary Report, cosmic dives in Sky & Telescope, rewilding with We Are the ARK, and orbital math via Celestial Calculations. Space, soil, code—everything I’m curious about in one pile. 📚 ✨ #booksky
This week, I stepped into Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form exhibit at #Seattle Museum of Pop Culture. Dreamscapes of ink and brush.
March 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This week, I stepped into Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form exhibit at #Seattle Museum of Pop Culture. Dreamscapes of ink and brush.
Last summer’s bonsai garden with my twins—teaching patience beyond our lifespans. Shared story of Oxford's 500-yo beams, replaced using oaks planted centuries earlier for exactly this purpose. In age of turmoil, there's hope in small hands learning to tend living history. #DeepTime
March 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Last summer’s bonsai garden with my twins—teaching patience beyond our lifespans. Shared story of Oxford's 500-yo beams, replaced using oaks planted centuries earlier for exactly this purpose. In age of turmoil, there's hope in small hands learning to tend living history. #DeepTime
Varda Space Industries, named after Tolkien’s Queen of the Stars, successfully retrieved its W-2 capsule—a 3-foot-wide miniature pharmaceutical factory—from Australia’s outback. This mission marks a leap in automated space-based manufacturing.
(Image credit: Varda Space Industries)
(Image credit: Varda Space Industries)
March 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Varda Space Industries, named after Tolkien’s Queen of the Stars, successfully retrieved its W-2 capsule—a 3-foot-wide miniature pharmaceutical factory—from Australia’s outback. This mission marks a leap in automated space-based manufacturing.
(Image credit: Varda Space Industries)
(Image credit: Varda Space Industries)