@bertdev

Software engineer. The guy who put a meme on the Moon. I build things, then post about what broke.

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Joined December 2010
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Davide Bert
@bertdevOct 23
In March 2025 an internet meme landed on the Moon. I made it. Doge in a spacesuit, captioned "I told you I'm going to the mooon!", sitting on an SD card inside a capsule in Mare Crisium. I write software in Trento for a living. Here's how that happened ↓
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Davide Bert
@bertdev10h
Replying to @SpaceflightNow
Moving a whole upper stage by barge for one static fire is the part of spaceflight nobody films. The payload end gets odd too: in March 2025 an SD card with my Doge artwork landed in Mare Crisium aboard Firefly's Blue Ghost.
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Davide Bert
@bertdev10h
Replying to @interesting_aIl
Four centuries from a blurry sketch of Saturn to cameras on the lunar surface. Firefly's Blue Ghost sent photos back from Mare Crisium in 2025, and it also carried an SD card with a Doge drawing of mine. Galileo would have had questions.
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Davide Bert
@bertdev10h
Replying to @Truthful_ast
Missing from the chart: the small commercial end. Firefly's Blue Ghost landed in Mare Crisium on 2 Mar 2025, and one of the things aboard was an SD card with a Doge Astronaut artwork I made. Not to scale with anything above. xitter.cf/bertdev/status/2113670…
Davide Bert
@bertdevOct 23
In March 2025 an internet meme landed on the Moon. I made it. Doge in a spacesuit, captioned "I told you I'm going to the mooon!", sitting on an SD card inside a capsule in Mare Crisium. I write software in Trento for a living. Here's how that happened ↓
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Davide Bert
@bertdev10h
Replying to @dogeofficialceo
Did my best. Drew a Doge in a spacesuit, put it on an SD card, and it landed on the Moon in March 2025 aboard Firefly's Blue Ghost. Still sitting in Mare Crisium. xitter.cf/bertdev/status/2113670…
Davide Bert
@bertdevOct 23
In March 2025 an internet meme landed on the Moon. I made it. Doge in a spacesuit, captioned "I told you I'm going to the mooon!", sitting on an SD card inside a capsule in Mare Crisium. I write software in Trento for a living. Here's how that happened ↓
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Davide Bert
@bertdev12h
Replying to @Rainmaker1973
Dating a painting by its sky is a great trick. Future historians get an easier case on the Moon: a Doge Astronaut artwork on an SD card in Mare Crisium, landing date 2 Mar 2025, no astronomy needed. I made it, so I'm biased: xitter.cf/bertdev/status/2113670…
Davide Bert
@bertdevOct 23
In March 2025 an internet meme landed on the Moon. I made it. Doge in a spacesuit, captioned "I told you I'm going to the mooon!", sitting on an SD card inside a capsule in Mare Crisium. I write software in Trento for a living. Here's how that happened ↓
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Davide Bert
@bertdev13h
Replying to @FelixSchlang
Two weeks in low Earth orbit rehearsing dockings before anyone lands is the boring, correct order. Commercial landers are already up there: Firefly's Blue Ghost set down in Mare Crisium in March 2025 carrying, among other things, a Doge I drew.
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Davide Bert
@bertdev13h
Replying to @teslaownersSV
Mars rock someday heading to Earth, while some Earth stuff already went the other way. A Doge artwork I drew sits on an SD card in Mare Crisium, aboard Firefly's Blue Ghost lander since March 2025. No sample return planned.
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Davide Bert
@bertdev13h
Replying to @amazing_physics
First stop: Mare Crisium, to check on a Doge. A Doge Astronaut artwork I made has been there on an SD card since 2 Mar 2025, inside a LifeShip capsule aboard Firefly's Blue Ghost. How a meme got there: xitter.cf/bertdev/status/2113670…
Davide Bert
@bertdevOct 23
In March 2025 an internet meme landed on the Moon. I made it. Doge in a spacesuit, captioned "I told you I'm going to the mooon!", sitting on an SD card inside a capsule in Mare Crisium. I write software in Trento for a living. Here's how that happened ↓
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Davide Bert
@bertdev15h
Replying to @wonderofscience
Sagan's team sent a golden record on Voyager for whoever might find it. The 2025 version is less dignified: an SD card with my Doge astronaut drawing, now sitting in Mare Crisium on Firefly's Blue Ghost lander. Same instinct, worse curation.
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Davide Bert
@bertdev15h
Replying to @XFreeze
Refilling in orbit is the step that turns Starship from a rocket into a supply chain. The Moon is already getting deliveries at the small end: Blue Ghost landed in 2025 with an SD card of my Doge art aboard. Waiting for the bulk rate.
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Davide Bert
@bertdev15h
Replying to @NASASpaceflight
Watching B22 go up the tower, the cost per kg to the lunar surface is about to drop a lot. My Doge drawing went the expensive way in 2025: one SD card inside Blue Ghost, on a Falcon 9. Future dogs will have it much easier.
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Davide Bert
@bertdev15h
Replying to @konstructivizm
For scale: my contribution to the Moon was one SD card with a Doge drawing, landed in Mare Crisium on Firefly's Blue Ghost in 2025. 3I/ATLAS shed roughly ten trillion times that mass on one pass of the Sun and didn't notice. xitter.cf/bertdev/status/2113670…
Davide Bert
@bertdevOct 23
In March 2025 an internet meme landed on the Moon. I made it. Doge in a spacesuit, captioned "I told you I'm going to the mooon!", sitting on an SD card inside a capsule in Mare Crisium. I write software in Trento for a living. Here's how that happened ↓
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Davide Bert
@bertdev15h
Replying to @MarioNawfal
Not every payload is a satellite. In Jan 2025 a Falcon 9 sent Firefly's Blue Ghost to the Moon, and on board was an SD card with a Doge astronaut I drew in Trento. Lowest-revenue item on that manifest, by a wide margin.
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Davide Bert
@bertdev15h
Replying to @JoeTegtmeyer
Three of the biggest rockets ever built in one view. The small landers got there first, though: Blue Ghost touched down in Mare Crisium in March 2025 with an SD card of my Doge astronaut art aboard. A low bar for Artemis III, but a bar. xitter.cf/bertdev/status/2113670…
Davide Bert
@bertdevOct 23
In March 2025 an internet meme landed on the Moon. I made it. Doge in a spacesuit, captioned "I told you I'm going to the mooon!", sitting on an SD card inside a capsule in Mare Crisium. I write software in Trento for a living. Here's how that happened ↓
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Davide Bert
@bertdev15h
The pictures this thread was missing: the artwork, a LifeShip pyramid like the one holding the SD card, and Blue Ghost's shadow on Mare Crisium with Earth overhead (photo: Firefly Aerospace).
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Davide Bert
@bertdev19h
Replying to @MiPnamic
Sisi perché deve essere sempre tutto senza effort 🤣
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Davide Bert
@bertdev19h
Replying to @theo
car.toString() 🤣
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Davide Bert
@bertdev19h
Replying to @MiPnamic
Sempre bello quando poi devono recuperare N versioni con Nmila breaking changes 🤣
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Davide Bert
@bertdevOct 23
Replying to @cb_doge
More pads, faster cadence, more hardware headed for the Moon. Some cargo is already there: my Doge Astronaut art landed in Mare Crisium in March 2025 on Firefly's Blue Ghost, which went up on a Falcon 9. The thread: xitter.cf/bertdev/status/2113670…
Davide Bert
@bertdevOct 23
In March 2025 an internet meme landed on the Moon. I made it. Doge in a spacesuit, captioned "I told you I'm going to the mooon!", sitting on an SD card inside a capsule in Mare Crisium. I write software in Trento for a living. Here's how that happened ↓
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Davide Bert
@bertdevOct 23
Replying to @BillyM2k
Realistically: relieved at least one Doge is off-planet. Mine has been on an SD card in Mare Crisium since March 2025, delivered by Firefly's Blue Ghost lander. Out of reach of the teeth, for now. Long version: xitter.cf/bertdev/status/2113670…
Davide Bert
@bertdevOct 23
In March 2025 an internet meme landed on the Moon. I made it. Doge in a spacesuit, captioned "I told you I'm going to the mooon!", sitting on an SD card inside a capsule in Mare Crisium. I write software in Trento for a living. Here's how that happened ↓
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