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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 18/08/2026

Mr 20 Micah. NHC Otago. Field hockey. NATIONALS. 🇳🇿🏑🔥 Help get this kid to Welly? Raffle's on, good prizes, good cause. Money goes direct to players, they add you to the drawing. DM me for details if you're keen!

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 02/08/2026

Great thinking....have a 3rd child, bank the incentive and then watch in 18 years as they still likely bugger off to Australia to find a job that pays a livable wage there. Deep thinking policy ideas from this lot.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 28/07/2026

Made a tool perhaps only I wanted (github.com/jduckles/txt...) Ever have a bunch of text files you want to compile into an epub? Now you can do it all in client side JS, repo has a CLI to bulk load chapters from a dir full of *.txt files. Check it out at jduckles.github.io/txt2epub/

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 17/07/2026

Aotearoa, you are sure looking beautiful from space today!

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 03/02/2026

TFW you get two unrelated & unpaid keynote invites 20min apart for 2 conferences in Ag and Astro 🤣. The emails have exactly the same template including: "We believe that your experience and comments will add an important dimension to what is potentially a very important discussion for the field."

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 21/01/2026

Okay Ōtepoti, you know how to turn on a beautiful sunset beach walk! (from Monday night)

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 19/12/2025

I feel like they may have skipped a few steps.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 11/12/2025

In almost 9 years in NZ I don't think I've ever experienced a severe thunderstorm warning where I live. Today that changes 🤣. After living in Oklahoma through F5s and grapefruit size hail, I'm a bit like 🙄, but here we are.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 06/12/2025

A couple of cheeky kea, a whio with chicks at Iris Burn today while I volunteered doing comms for the Kepler Challenge.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 26/11/2025

Spear phishing is getting rather sophisticated! DocuSign email with "Closing Docs" that takes me to a MS Account login at a .ru domain and my email templated inside the footer. 🤔

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 13/10/2025

Beautiful view of my favorite part of Aotearoa! MODIS Terra, September 18th, 2025 Can't believe that satellite is still taking such gorgeous pics for 26 years now! 😱 Gonna be so sad when she's retired.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 10/10/2025

Gosh I hate it when I suffer from "mental health"

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 06/08/2025

TFW an AI hiring bot sends you a snapshot of your GitHub that says you’re in the top 1% of HTML engineers globally. My response “tell your algo to go home, it be drunk”. Should I have played along 🤔?

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 03/08/2025

Now why would you ever consider including learners (students) in the change being proposed? 🫠 Omiting learners from the process tells me all I need to know. Luckily my kids are done with that system now.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 09/07/2025

Lovely snaps from 30 June and 5 Jul of Aotearoa ❤️

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 03/04/2025

Yesterday I went and became a kiwi citizen with my whānau. Here is a beautiful picture of Aotearoa from space (MODIS Terra from Mar-30) to celebrate. Can't wait to lean into this new phase of life here.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 26/03/2025

📖 Check out OrgMycology's latest shared resource! We've been doing a lot of work with academics who seek to deepen their collaborations with industry. Would love to hear feedback from both side here, did we hit the mark, what areas did we miss? orgmycology.com/10-simple-ru...

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 21/03/2025

It never gets old looking at Aotearoa from space!

Satellite view of Aotearoa from space, most of the south island is without cloud, large plumes of sediment show up in an aqua color from Canterbury.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 19/01/2025

Second commission – a zoomed-in version of Welly for the same school. 66 more hours of print time, almost 1.5kg of filament ~600x600mm We can't wait to see how they'll use it in teaching.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 13/01/2025

70hours of print time later, our special-order / commission for a Wellington high school is complete. 9 individual tiles that will be mounted by the customer. About 0.6x0.5m #3DPrinting #LidarData #LINZ

A 3D printed landscape of Wellington New Zealand's topography, with the ocean printed in blue and the landscape in gray.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 05/12/2024

More great news for NZ's broadband connectivity. itp.nz/techblog/pla...

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 04/12/2024

Way number 5,256 to learn you're old.... login to AWS and see for an old disused and disabled access key... 19 years old that key...

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 27/11/2024

A few more landscapes now. Banks Peninsula, Golden Bay, Kapiti Coast are available. They make great gifts! Just reach out if there is another region of Aotearoa you'd love to see them make for you. designs.duckles.nz

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 22/11/2024

A developer is taking a house and granny flat across the street from me, tearing it down and turing it into six 2BR town homes. Six homes seems a bit excessive, at least they'll all have double parking.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 21/11/2024

Analysis of OSI's "Open if we say so" model for Open Source AI writing.kemitchell.com/2024/11/14/O...

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 18/11/2024

Morena Ōtepoti. Dawn chorus of 🐦s is in full swing now ❤️

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 12/11/2024

I love how having a 3D printer means you can go from idea to custom widget deployed in under 1-hour. A door-holder-opener for thosee times in summer when windows open + gusts of wind slams the doors around my house.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 23/10/2024

3D printing preview of one of the wider areas....What do you think? I still think the hillshade of the same area looks 🔥 comparatively

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 23/10/2024

1m data are available.... It doesn't make a very nice scene printed when zoomed out imo, the dunes are just not that high relative to the x/y extent to pop much in 3D printing land. If I zoom in quite a bit, can get a 3D model like 2nd image. Thoughts?

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 23/10/2024

This fit the bill? (not a print yet, just a 3D preview)

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 22/10/2024

My boys started a 3D printing business, with their first product being a 3D printed map of the terrain around Ōtepoti. If you'd like to own or gift one of these, order at: designs.duckles.nz/products/ota... Soon they'll have other areas such as Banks Peninsula, Golden Bay, Taranaki & Wellington.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 20/10/2024

TIL that the class rules for AC75s (the America's Cup class of yachts) stipulate the helm should be round. So when Team NZ went with a F1 style helm, to stick with the rules they added a piece of wire, in a "round" arc above and below. 😆 Problem solved.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 26/09/2024

Feature has been there but it was a blockier UI before 18.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 12/09/2024

Nice clearish shot from the 9th of September.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 09/09/2024

Playing around with Mr 15 and the old SLR yesterday. Depth of field, long exposures, macro playfulness.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 14/08/2024

Looks like it was a pretty clear day all over Aotearoa today!

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 12/08/2024

A pretty good outcome for NZ's population size!

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 07/08/2024

The facelift on the Contour in the late 1990s, its headlights and body lines set us down the road we are still on imo.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 07/08/2024

Pseudoscience is not new... From the wonderful Papers Past resource of the NZ National library: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/C...

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 07/08/2024

Kmart NZ, I don't believe a PORTLAND - STATE COLLEGE SPORT CENTRE exists....you gave it away with your British spelling of center. Nice touch with the P 🦅 O though. As a Portlandian, what do you think @bduckles.bsky.social ?

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 12/07/2024

NC to NZ quote as unattended luggage www.app.luggagefree.com In my experience with this kind of service (in the long ago past) you drop off and pickup at source / destination airports.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 03/07/2024

Barbed hooks #EverydayOpenSource Ever tried to catch a fish without a barbed hook? It is possible, but not as easy jonah.duckles.org/ev...

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 03/07/2024

Gravity Sewer #EverydayOpenSource Let that waste flow down hill, trust me, it'll get there eventually. I wonder... what is the sewer water travel-time to your local waste water facility? jonah.duckles.org/ev...

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 01/07/2024

Adirondack Chair #EverydayOpenSource A summer lounging staple in the Northeast USA and beyond. jonah.duckles.org/ev...

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 01/07/2024

A-frame ladder #EverydayOpenSource Reach for the sky! jonah.duckles.org/ev...

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 29/06/2024

Cartography #EverydayOpenSource I once was lost, but not anymore! jonah.duckles.org/ev...

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