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@AJamesMcCarthy @elonmusk Only thing missing is the theme from Civ 5 playing in the background.

@SpaceXAI SpaceX was a better name. Even if you have AI. The change was unnecessary

@AJamesMcCarthy Beautiful

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping. His name is Fabrice Bellard. Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built. Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code. In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years. Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it. He was not done. In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth. He kept going. In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real. In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark. Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory. Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links. A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet. He is still shipping.

I respectfully have a different take... A major vendor, @UnionPacific, decided to paint one of its locomotives in patriotic colors to celebrate America’s 250th birthday as it transports components of a NASA rocket. They also decided to paint “45 47” on the train to recognize the sitting President during this important anniversary. Now, I understand if someone served in a different administration, from a different political party, there may be a bias, but through my lens, what Union Pacific is doing is patriotic. We also happen to be celebrating a lot of NASA’s “meaningful achievements,” including the giant Saturn V, the Moon landing, and other historical moments projected on the Washington Monument during America’s 250th birthday. We similarly have those accomplishments displayed at NASA centers to recognize these historic and world-changing achievements, but it is unlikely we can ask vendors to paint them on every locomotive.

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@JackPosobiec You can walk under a Saturn V if you visit Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.

@NASAAdmin @Erdayastronaut Had rickets blow up as a kid. Apparently it happens to everyone, at any scale. Space is hard. There will be lessons learned and eventual success.

We do this too 🇺🇸

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@AJamesMcCarthy @BurtMaclin_FBI Years ago, during LOS we would go outside and watch station pass overhead.

@elonmusk Admit it! This is just the early stage for the Dyson sphere! :-)

@AJamesMcCarthy The color reminds me of the Disney movie The Black Hole

@lauriewired Weird. I was just talking to my wife about this. I’m still planning on setting up the big speakers from the 70s.

Data centers in space will be the skeleton of our future Dyson sphere.

This is even more impressive when you remember each of these engines is 10 feet tall. Starship is absolutely massive.

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@rookisaacman @johnkrausphotos @RocketCenterUSA @SpaceCampUSA I didn’t go to space camp as a child. I only got to see the movie. Not the same but still made me want to go to space. Now I support those in space.

@NASAAdmin @NASAStennis Love how engaged you are! Can’t wait till you visit Marshall. Supported inspiration4, SLS and ISS. So excited to see nasa getting such great PR! Keep it up!

There's nothing better than seeing an SLS rocket stage vertical! 🏗️ Technicians at @nasakennedy have completed operations of lifting the largest section of the core stage for NASA’s Artemis III SLS rocket into High Bay 2, where it will be connected to the engine section. Learn more about SLS: go.nasa.gov/4uBq6ek

One of the problems engineers had with recovering Voyager 1 was there was no emulator or assembler for the computer they had to reprogram. Vintage computer fans had wanted to document this hardware for years, but when we asked NASA for info they said no. Finally someone tracked down some old JPL memos in a filing cabinet in Kansas and got all the information needed to build and emulator for the hardware. Imagine how much easier the Voyager 1 recovery would have been if NASA had just said 'Yes' to those inquisitive vintage computer nerds a decade ago. zanehambly.com/voyager

@NASAAdmin @SteveScalise Any plans to visit Marshall? You’ve really been inspiring for the folks in the control rooms. People are excited again about space and exploration.

@NASAAdmin @johnkrausphotos @NASAWatch @NASAKennedy @NASA This is such a good move. It will lower cost, decrease the brain drain, reduce risk. I have over 10 years supporting ISS and space force. I can’t wait for these changes to happen.