I finally found out why SO MANY people from indonesia went on Luna :D youtube.com/shorts/lKaTG...

Managed a big milestone: Benchpressing my bodyweight. Many more milestones to follow.

Again unexplained 10x traffic. Anyone from Indonesia wanna tell me how they found out about Luna?

I had 6 gopro batteries, I bought my gopro like 3 years ago, and I did not use it much. 4 of them got bloated just sitting around. one still works, and I don't know where I put the other one. But yeah, definitely not going to buy a gopro again

The problem with adding an easter egg mode to a space sim is that there's too many people actually believing the weirdest things. I hope no one genuinely believes in the geocentric egg-shaped earth mode. Also I will probably get back to adding useful stuff, even though this has been fun

Aprils fools in Luna. Try it out lol

A small glimpse on how Jupiter would look in the sky from Io. Pushing the update to luna tomorrow (when I figure out why it turns transparent lol) Most of Jupiters moons are tidally locked, so you wouldn't see a Jupiterrise or Jupiterset. #astro

Trying my hand at short form video creation for education, using tools I built myself. Very niche. Did you know that sunsets on mars are blue? #astro youtube.com/shorts/ZyTka...

I am so happy you like it! Thank you for sharing it!

careless-whisper.watermelonson.com Use whisper in your browser (for free) runs in your browser. Yes there are other options. Yes, I only shared it because the name careless whisper is so funny

So apparently in the last 24h over a thousand people have literally googled for "luna watermelonson" or "luna watermelon son" But I have no idea how people got the idea to look for it? And why is it almost exclusively people from Indonesia? :D

Wow, the traffic to my space simulator Luna really exploded. Basically giving me my usual daily users in an hour. Hope the server can hold it. Looks like google ranks it quite high now.

What’s with Reddit auto translating posts? What a wild default setting. It also shows why some people respond in their native language when a post was in English or any other language. What a stupid default setting, but I guess that’s how you reach more people?

Added rayleigh scattering to my space sim. Seeing how the atmosphere affects the color of the sky. Super curious how sunsets could look with different atmospheres. A first version is pushed. Still tweaking it locally #astro #sciart

testflight.apple.com/join/8bFP9UxQ my space sim is now on Testflight, if anyone wants to try it!

I have added some more tutorials and some astronomy education resources into my space simulator. I think it can turn into a great teaching tool. Added an interactive explanation for the ecliptic, too

The next luna release is ready - if anyone wants to check it and let me know if you find any issues: 6.luna.watermelonson.com #indiedev #buildinpublic #education

When you've had too many statistics classes, the monty hall problem is so obvious that it's more shocking that people think it makes no difference whether you change the door or not

Teaser for my space sim: How Proxima Centauri looks from the planet, and an artist rendition - looks like we can showcase the size really well already. Extremely excited to publish the next changes. Also, this shows me that I should add atmosphere (and planetary elevation maps) into the Sky view

A German politician couldn’t explain what greenhouse gases are lmao

Also, in case anyone is looking at Luna and wants to use it for education: I am working on more features and I would love any feedback, especially astronomers or astronomy teachers

Kind of crazy to see that a thing I built and wasn't even sure if I should share has been averaging 100 daily active users #buildinpublic

Lmao #cat

Mathematicians will all lose their job now that we’ve invented a calculator

what do you think: keep the text on as a default setting, or does it look too cluttered? #buildinpublic #indiedev #gamedev #space

How we ended up with the coolest photos ever taken of us

What happens when you trust a stranger while traveling? After arriving at Spitzkoppe, Namibia's steepest mountains, for another night of desert camping, we met a landscape photographer who had an unusual request. It involved climbing a HUGE rock. I didn't dare... #travel #travelvlog #storytelling

Working on Luna showed me something that ancient astronomers already knew: the planets always appear close to the same line in the sky, the ecliptic. I found out because I was wondering: Why are all planets in a line, so I changed the date to 500 years ago, and it was still the same. #astro

Gotten a lot of positive feedback on Luna and I am working on making it even prettier and adding more educational features. Any Astronomers have ideas? Already working on interactive scenarios. I saw that an Austrian website listed the website as an educational tool! #buildinpublic

I vibe coded a calculator. It uses a 1B parameter LLM to give you answers to your caclulations #buildinpublic #indiehackers Next steps are caching (why would the LLM have to calculate 8x8 twice)

Gonna be downgrading my icloud storage. It's absurd how my files keep getting offloaded, and the download is incredibly slow. It's borderline unusable

murdle.com Really fun daily game for fans of deductive puzzles

Want to see how the planets were aligned on a particular day? what about today? Added that feature to luna

The positive resonance to my space simulator makes me very happy. To think that I was wondering whether it's even worth publishing, and now thousands of people enjoyed it.

Calling it now: HP will be called out for bricking the printers of people who still have a free instant ink subscription.

Watch gas clouds collapse, spiral into black holes, and form galaxies - simulated particle by particle. Draw your heart out. luna.watermelonson.com #sciart #astro

Building a space sim and I don't know if people use it for education or gaming. Kind of wondering how I'll move it more in the direction people care about. (this is 2 months after I said I am done with this and will build something else)

Had some server issues with Luna (curse of deploying too many services) I will have to add some monitoring and will also ensure it doesn’t happen again.

Polymarket + Substack Partnership. I fucking hate how #gambling is infiltrating every aspect of our lives. One of the worst trends in the recent years

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Video calling the cat that decided this was her house too when we moved in. #thailand #cat Thinking of adopting her and maybe having an adventure cat. Definitely better than her staying outside where we live right now

"Emergent behavior refers to complex, unexpected patterns or properties that arise from the collective interactions of simpler, individual components within a system, rather than from any single part." Extremely excited for the next thing I'm adding to Luna-My Space Simulator #buildinpublic #sciart

Any guesses what this is? Tip: It's got something to do with my space simulator

But last year, we experienced what it's like to camp in a country the size of Germany and Italy combined, but with only 2,6 million people inside. (2/4)

Traveling Namibia has completely ruined camping for me. Before, I happily crammed my bike and tent or small campervan in between other guests on Italian, French, or Portuguese campsites. (1/4)

Can't run my app on my girlfriends phone because my free account can only be used on 3 iPhones and my 2 old ones are part of them? One of the weirdest requirements I've seen #indiedev

Someone trying to get #openclaw or other AI Agents to "renew" their OpenAI subscriptions? The link redirects to a Stripe Store - already reported it to them

How do you balance your projects? Working on literally 5 ideas at the same time when I am off work #buildinpublic Too many amazing ideas coming up

The possibilities with small local models as opposed to using chatgpt or other APIs feels underexplored