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12 April 2026

Humans circle the moon

Hello everyone. I continued my vacation this week, and as with anyone travelling back to their homeland, it was mostly about getting pending things done and attending official matters.

As such, I spent a lot of time driving and on boring official stuff that is not worth mentioning here.

Apart from that, one of the highlights of this week for me was watching the photos that Artemis II crew took of the moon and the earth from Integrity. It made me pause, ponder for a bit and brought tears to my eyes. It may sound a little over the top, but it was something special. I am glad that I got to witness this in my lifetime and specially at a time when good news are few and far between.

If you haven’t still seen these or at length. I would recommend the first video I link below.


Interesting reads/watches

I saw more videos than I read this week

  1. Explaining the most important photos from Artemis II
    Which, honestly, was so good, specially because of Hank’s commentary

  2. Splashdown video of Artemis II
    Streamed yesterday, couldn’t find a video from the official NASA channel

  3. Sea level rise may be approaching faster that we predict
    And a tipping point, a point of no return may already have been reached

  4. Now is the best time to write code by hand
    Agree with each and every word of this


An project AI agent skill I discovered

why use many token when few do trick

GitHub - JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman · GitHub

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman - JuliusBrussee/caveman

As seen on the primeagen if you follow.


A photo I took

Shows a highway slightly wounding towards the left at the far end that the photo captures. There are red and white evening clouds in the backdrop of a pale blue and grayish sky. Two street0lights flank both sides. There is zebra coloured pattern on the stone dividers on both sides of the road
Highway and the evening sky

Hope you have a good week ahead. Until next time 👋

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