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Pengo Wray
@pengowray.bsky.social
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Game developer, information designer, nature photographer, amateur radio aficionado, threatened species conservation, biotech dropout. Melbourne, Australia. Developer of: Sprinto the discord bot, STREAMLING overlay, FT8play. 🐨🦘🐙🐳
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> git undo git: 'undo' is not a git command.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Galapagos tortoises aren't named for the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Islands get their name from the galápagos (giant tortoises). #TodayILearned #TIL
(Not a Galápagos tortoise). This is an Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) at a zoo in Japan. Their shell is smooth and dome shaped. Galápagos tortoises by contrast can have a saddleback shell and an extra-long neck, though some also have dome shells too (they are morphologically diverse, varying between islands). The Aldabra and Galápagos tortoises are approximately as different from each other as cats are from dogs, each going their separate ways about 50 million years ago. The Galapagos tortoise is critically endangered. The Aldabra tortoise's threat of extinction is less immediate but the two other giant tortoise species of the same genus did not survive human cohabitation. Photo by Pengo Wray 2005.
August 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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i think these guys remember me. #pigeons #pigeonsky 🪶
Late at night, a couple of pigeons looking curious on an interstate train platform. I've encountered these pigeons only once before over a year ago. They ran up to me when they saw me.
August 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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does anyone play WASD shooters like this?
hand on the home row, pinky pressing w
August 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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idk
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August 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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With a 3D graph layout, it feels like you get a hint of some deeper underlying structure, but largely it just makes a lovely mess of it.
April 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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If a chessboard's tiles are jumbled, can a tool help rediscover the underlying structure using only the motion of the knight?

I found the fCoSE graph layout algorithm stood out from the rest, published just 4 years ago.

#InformationDesign #visualization #complexity #NetSci #dataviz #sciart #♞
April 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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For noveling month, I'd always spend too much time coming up with a ridiculous book concept and then spend November writing something completely different. Here's the earliest I can find

Going to have to back these up before the site goes down for good. RIP nanowrimo dot org 🪦
"Pretend Hen: The Tail of an Underwater Albino Peacock" project on nanowrimo website and edit box for my noveling project description from 2011 because this is the only way to view the text, which follows: project summary: A sunburned albino peacock overcomes his fear of slimy seaweed while journeying to the bottom of the ocean where he meets a beautiful merpeahen, who helps him on his quest to find a vitamin supplement to reduce his overall cancer risk.
April 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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I briefly considered letting you pull your currently playing song directly out from of your music player's memory. But this approach was too hacky, difficult, generally unnecessary for most music apps, and now I've found the library to do it also triggers alerts
So i won't be able to let you pull your currently playing song name directly from of your media player's memory using this neat little .net library. I mean I could but it'll make my software look like a trojan. Fortunately there's very few music apps where this approach would be needed or helpful. Screenshot of a Microsoft security alert for memory.dll, from the nuget package found at https://github.com/erfg12/memory.dll/ which is a package that I guess is also used by malware
March 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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I am a good responsive developer
An itch.io forum post of user requesting a feature (Apple Music support), and the response just 338 days later, me saying I've added it.
March 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Connected up an old hard drive to use for backups and found this
Screencap of Explorer with a hard drive named "This Disk Is Slowly Failing (D:)" which is a warning I left for myself
January 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Mantids are most closely related to cockroaches now?! #entomology #insects
A cladogram illustrating evolutionary relationships among certain insect orders based on Evangelista et al. (2019). The diagram includes three groups: Dictyoptera: The overarching group containing the others. Mantodea (Mantises): Branching from Dictyoptera, labeled to indicate these are mantises. Blattodea (Cockroaches and termites): Also branching from Dictyoptera, labeled to indicate these include cockroaches and termites. The layout uses connecting lines to show the evolutionary split between Mantodea and Blattodea under the shared umbrella of Dictyoptera.
December 21, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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little raven (melbourne) #photography #nature #birds
little raven (Corvus mellori) sitting in a tree looking sinister like a he/she is cosplaying a vulture
December 19, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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Zhongyi 20mm 4.5x macro lens arrived today #photography
strawberry SMA female connector World globe Microphone grill
December 16, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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A little raven, Corvus mellori. #corvid #photography #nature #bird 🌿📷
an australian crow in a tree. photo credit: pengo wray
December 12, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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We have both kinds of corella here: horizontal & vertical #ausbirds #wildoz #photography #birds
little corellas (Cacatua sanguinea) in various orientations in a tree
December 11, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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Saw this dragonfly today. Kept circling back to the same perch. ID welcome. Guessing she's a yellow striped hunter (Austrogomphus guerini) #bugsky #nature #insect #photography #wildoz 🌿📷
A dragonfly perched on a strip of plastic sticking out from the ground.
December 11, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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post somebody you’ve been told you look like who you definitely don’t look like
it's Noah Taylor in Shine
December 7, 2024 at 2:59 AM
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A scoring system where all two-letter combinations add up to exactly 10,000,000. Today I'm working on the puzzle of why I made this and how to use it in a morse code learning game. #gamedev
Screenshot of a text editor with common two-letter combinations found in English. in: 200000 points; er: 190000 points, re: 150000 points, etc.
December 6, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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spoonbill is the name of the bird and musician. #ausbirds #wildoz #photography #birds
December 6, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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Agreed. Can never have enough. You can probably squeeze a few more USB2.0 ports out of it with these if the mobo has the headers
products listed as "Motherboard 9Pin USB to Dual USB2.0 Back Panel Rear Baffle Extension Cable Connector 9 Pin Header Adapter Mount Bracket 2-Port Bezel for Desktop Chassis PC Computer Case"
December 5, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Only appears after you've typed a character or two. Is on desktop + android at least
December 5, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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duck 🦆
December 5, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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WATCH: the entire 4 seconds of footage i filmed of this duck. #nature #birds #ausbirds 🌿🦆
December 5, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Little birdo who showed up chirping to be fed. Tried to follow me inside. Gave him some crushed walnuts. #magpie #birds #ausbirds
Fledgling magpie with mouth wide open begging for food, standing on the ground. Camera phone shots. Gymnorhina tibicen Fledgling magpie standing on the top step at the entrance to a house Fledgling magpie standing in a doorway, at the front door of a house, looking over their shoulder
December 3, 2024 at 1:33 AM