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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 03/02/2026

I recently returned from an incredible trip to Antarctica and need everyone to see these penguins.

A penguin on a rocky shore facing the camera with its its wings extended and one leg raised

A penguin on a rocky shore with its back leg extended behind it and its head tilted at a rakish angle while looking at the camera

A parent penguin sitting on a rocky nest with two adorable fuzzy baby penguin chicks underneath it

Two penguins who appear to be having a conversation on a rocky shore looking to each other while one has its beak wide open and appears to be shouting at the other

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Jfc you’d think after running their “oops we’ll do better” non-apology update they’d at LEAST remove their affiliate sales links or page ads. It’s not “we made a mistake”, it’s “we’re getting Cancel Culture’d but we don’t really care so we’ll profit from the outrage”. Babby’s first war profiteering

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I just lost like half an hour to debugging a strong contender for my dumbest typo in the 2020s so far. Try and find it, this is JS. If it takes you fewer than thirty Gregorian minutes you're doing better than me. Brb gonna go eat chocolate because am baby.

It's a block of Javascript for a string function called count. I guess I'll just copypaste the whole thing into the alt text? I can't believe it fits lol

String.prototype.count = function (countString, allowOverlap = false) {
if (isBlank(countString)) { return 0; }
// a string cannot contain another string longer than itself
if (countString.length > this.length) { return 0; }
if (countString.length == this.length) { return this == countString ? 1 : 0; }
let count = 0;
switch (countString.length) {
case 0:
// theoretically this should already be caught, but, failsafe
return 0;
case 1:
// one character, simply iterate through the whole string
for (let i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
if (this.charAt(i) == countString) { count++; }
}
return count;
default:
// more than one character
// optimization, don't substring unless first char matches
let firstChar = countString.charAt(0);
// optimization, only search to this length minus one less target length
for (let i = 0; i < this.length - (countString.length - 1); i++) {
if (this.charAt(i) == firstChar) {
let sub = this.substring(i, i + countString.length);
if (sub == countString) { count++; }
// if overlapping values aren't allowed, skip ahead
if (!allowOverlap) {
i += countString.length - 1;
}
}
}
return count;
}
};

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Drew an amblypygi, or tailless whip scorpion. They’re sweethearts! Fully harmless to humans, and among the only arachnids to exhibit social bonds - mother/child, and even siblings, grooming each other. Taking lil art breaks in between other projects is nice~ #sciart #insect #arachnid #procreate

Digitally drawn image of an amblypygi, an arachnid sorta halfway between a spider and a scorpion. It has six distinct legs, with its frontmost two legs having adapted into long slender “whips”, sensory limbs that give the bugfriend its name. Its pedipalps, grippy “arms” beside its mouth, are spiky and scary but harmless unless you’re a cricket or something. Its carapace is drawn purple and pink with a seafoam outline, against a pale yellow background. Colours are not true to life but stylistically chosen.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Oh mannnnnn, I'm reminded of this absolute bop that sampled his speech. Big nostalgia for 2000s-era chiptunes 💖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7IE...

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Untie and Unite

YouTube video by FantomenK

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I'm supposed to be cleaning right now, so naturally I drew this picture of how a coffee machine works instead :) #sciart #engineering #industrialdesign #productdesign

An illustration of how a coffee machine works! Water goes into the reservoir in the back, and flows into a tube around the bottom of the machine. The tube passes through the heating element, which both heats the water and the coffee carafe. The heated water becomes vapour, a mix of both liquid and gas. The hot vapour rises through the tube and passes a bubble valve, which lifts to allow rising water but lowers if water tries to backflow, ensuring water is forced up towards the grounds. A sprayer ensures the hot water is evenly dispersed over the grounds, which leach their delicious flavour into the water. The water then pours into the carafe, and you're left with a hot pot of fresh bean juice.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Labeling maps is a WHOLE THING. Like, just the names of the continents - specifically, Australia / Oceania.

A screenshot of the art app Procreate, with a world map graphic that has Australia in the center. Above it in large text is the word "Oceania".

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Making closed captions is fucking delightful and I apologize in advance if this messes with anybody’s screenreader.

Picture of a caption editor showing a still image from a video. The text caption at the bottom reads “just walked everywhere”, the image shows me trying to paint a map projection onto a canvas while a cat strolls over my attempted art, and also there is secret bonus closed captions of a emoticon cat face. Emoticon, not emoji. We’re going OG MSN Messenger mIRC style baby.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Visualization of latitudinal and longitudinal distortion on the Grieger Triptychial map projection. You can see how landmasses end up being largely accurate, thanks to distortion being centered in the oceans. #sciart

Distortion of Latitude and Longitude visualized on the Grieger Triptychial world map projection. Three maps are visible, a Tissot indicatrix and two heatmaps, that show lat/long distortion. This map projection manages to make landmasses very accurate because centers of distortion are located in the oceans.

The Galápagos islands, given their location, happen to be comically oversized lol

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Would love thoughts on which animation transition you prefer, simple (flat) or bumped. Having a hard time choosing. I've def lost objectivity over if the bump animation looks "good", and whether it takes away from the fact that the animated linework is superimposed over the painted lines.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Video rendering 😪 I’m getting a blistering 5FPS on a ~3 minute 30FPS video. I hate tasks that both hold up your entire workflow and can be measured in “seconds per second”

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Animation I made for a project I’m working on involving map projections~

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

1/8 Fun update on that GenAi Christies show. They lie quite a bit about their own show. Here’s a few: Lie #1 Christies says work on the show comes from data which was trained on participants own inputs in this article below: techcrunch.com/2025/02/08/c... This just isn’t the case.

"The artists represented in this sale all have strong, existing multidisciplinary art practices, some recognized in leading museum collections," said a Christie's spokesperson. "The works in this auction are using artificial intelligence to enhance their bodies of work and in most cases, Al is being employed in a controlled manner, with data trained on the artists' own inputs." Says Christies

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Progress! I'm making an animation that details the Grieger Triptychial world map projection. Frame-by-frame animation takes TIME but it's so fun and rewarding. Next up: highlighting the equator, and (time permitting) latitude and longitude in 15º increments. #animation #cartography #sciart

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

First animation I've ever exported from Procreate! Happy with how this turned out. Gonna use this to make some map projection infographics :)

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

WIP, converting my duck model to vector art. Vitruvian quack

screenshot of Amadine for iPad, showing a 3D duck with circles drawn over it

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I've been making maps! My current project, painting the Grieger Triptychial world projection. It’s a rearrangement of the Adams Hemisphere projection. Distortion is ocean-centered, leaving land mostly accurate. I LOVE IT. Playing with colours, materials, patterns. Almost done ☺️ #sciart #maps

Close-up view of the Grieger Triptychial map projection, hand painted on a green canvas. Latitude and longitude lines are labeled in 15° increments.

Me standing beside another canvas, this one in orange.

Close up showing the projection map I use to make the paintings, projected partially over my hand, but mostly onto a black and white checkerboard map canvas.

Me sitting on a couch, holding a hand painted map of the Earth in the Grieger Triptychial projection. I’m surrounded and covered by similar canvases.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I just finished a lil commission for a friend making stencils for signage in her pottery studio. My desk is COVERED in tiny burnt letters lol

View of my work desk with a spare piece of wood, and hundreds of tiny charred paper letters (like, alphabetical lil guys)

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Happy new year, lovely folks 💖 Late 2024 I started gutting old housewares and putting lights inside, that only activate when you interact with it - eg picking it up. May our 2025s be filled with glowy magical secrets 🎊 (I also catsat for a friend’s very playful kitty, can u tell)

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve programmed any chips and, even tho it’s just a simple little test pattern, uggghhhhh it feels good to be playing with LEDs again.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Yesterday I did a TON of work on optimizing this model, including building out all the hardware and cleaning up the in-file organization. Makes it easy to make little animations like this :3 #art #industrialdesign #electronics #ducks

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Progress! Cut the body out of wood. Something small and colourful and cute coming together. (Ignore the fact that I cut through the bottom lol, the clearance gaps are tiny) #art #wood #industrialdesign #cnc

A small wooden cylinder, about 2” tall and 3” in diameter, made of four layered pieces, held in my hand. A small button is visible on the side.

The same, but slid at an angle so all four pieces can be seen individually.

A top-down view showing the inner workings of the individual pieces. A hole is visible through the bottom - I’ve accidentally cut all the way through, past where the battery is supposed to go, and out the bottom.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Made this for a friend’s birthday a few years back, because her cat Bort is an absolute slut always showing off the goods 🥹 Lasercut into wood with glittery acrylic on top. #art #laserengraver #lasercut #wood #woodart #acrylic

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Bonfi @b0nfi.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Duckies 🦆 #art #illustration

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I don't think there's anything as linguistically upsetting as the technically-correct usage of "cum" to mean "combined with"

Facebook marketplace post listing a $230 "chair cum massage table", which looks like a massage table that can be folded into a chair position.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Testing gif uploads with one of a game prototype I made yeeears ago. This was a cute project, and while I’m largely doing other non-game stuff now (art & electronics), it’d be fun to revisit this someday :) (God I hope it animates lol)

Gif of a building game prototype I made years ago. It’s a cute, lofi 3D construction game, where holding down a button spawns bouncy cubes in the shape of the house you’re building.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I’ve lowkey rebuilt my entire like, brand? Vibe? Around ducks. It brings me so much joy. If you want to put a lil yay in my day, send me a picture of a duck. I literally painted a duck on the door of my design studio. Which is called Duck Pond Studio. It’s nice to discover what your ducks is 🥹

It’s a door, painted orange, with a duck painted on it. It’s a very cute duck. It’s white with an orange beak. It looks like it might be a little confused, but that’s okay. We all get confused sometimes. The important thing is to just keep waddling on, because eventually there will be peas to eat and ducklings to lead on a tiny parade. We will always have peas and ducklings.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

<screaming> DUCKIES

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Canda Lodge DPT @candaland.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Hi y’all! So, I’m a pelvic physical therapist and I’d love to see more pelvic health education EVERYWHERE. I’m gonna just post some facts over the next couple days. There are so many things I didn’t know until I specialized in this field and I feel like we’d all do better if we knew these things!

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Pictured: my disassembled CNC machine spindle, that I took apart to fix, but then my SOLDERING IRON also broke, so I’ve disassembled that too 😅

A disassembled soldering iron in front of a disassembled spindle for a CNC machine, held on my lap.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Vancouver friends! I’m in the Eastside Culture Crawl this weekend, at Pandora’s Box Art Studios near Victoria @ Hastings. Wanna see weird LEDs, wood and paper crafts, and lots of duck shaped things? Plus art by a dozen other creators artists? Come say hiiii culturecrawl.ca/buildings/pa...

The front door the Duck Pond Studio, painted orange with a big duck on the front

A poster detailing when are where the culture crawl is, featuring three artists taking place in it

A promotional image I made for Duck Pond Studio, showing a glowy LED lantern with a ghostly duck hovering in the background

The art gallery and studio setup, partially underway, with pictures beginning to be mounted for the Culture Crawl

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Having to remind sellers to not use Uline is a mark of time passing for me. This company has always supported right wing shit, never stop reminding people not to use them. There’s always new sellers who haven’t heard. Sharing how you make and sell is how we keep doing

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Happy Thursday, just doing some queer little debugging with some queer little lights

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بلبل @chipperdoodles.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

If anyone is wondering why they're following this account it's probably for stuff like this: www.crowdsupply.com/chipperdoodl...

Artistic PCBS are layed out in a square. Ornate designs are plated in gold and tin in different shapes and colors. A purple and gold design reads the word habibi in arabic, with leds a part of the word. A blue and tin circuit board is shaped as a khamsa, or hand of mary/fatima. a white board shows a winged scarab holding aloft an led. A black and silver circuit board shows a skull giving a thumbs up with the words "don't give up, skeleton!" circling it.

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

The first spinny scene I made, just a mishmash of colourful things I found on my desk~

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Obsessed with this old London Underground poster that makes it look like it launches you straight to hell

London Underground poster that shows a small cross section of earth with cold, rainy streets on top and a radiating red and orange light underneath along with the train

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Another layered paper cutout. You’ll never guess what I was listening to while I made this one 🎧

Layer cardstock cut out scene of the “Lofi beats to study and relax to”

Same, from a different angle, showing the layers of depth

Screencap of the lofi girl YouTube video

Monochromatic view of the cutout art piece as it was made in Procreate on iPad

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Kiana Mai @kianamai.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

20 y/o Ash and his moms

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Layered paper cutout piece I made awhile back of Our Flag Means Death, because oh my god the gay pirate show you guys

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Jason Coon @evilgeniuslabs.org · 20/10/2024

I have been known to play around with an LED or 2^10. That's my hand in the lower left corner holding a one inch (25.4mm) Fibonacci 128 for scale. 😁 And video is supported on bsky this time around! 🎉

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

It’s just a cozy little Sunday afternoon today, isn’t it 😌

Selfie sitting on a leather couch, with a scruffy beard and incredible hair

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Yesterday, got the LEDs and rotary encoder working just so Today, a time-delayed sleep mode, waking on interaction (gotta preserve that battery life) Tomorrow, gentle candle fx, and gonna wrap it up it rice paper and decorative cardstock Soon, guiding groups of folks on making their own :)

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

A lil while back I made a some spinny dioramas using a product photography plate. I think this was the 4th one I did? Using random stuff from around my studio to make scenes that can be viewed from any angle. Experiments in visual storytelling! (Reuploaded in video format lol)

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

We do love a platform that lets you upload gifs 😭 A lil while back I made a some spinny dioramas using a product photography plate. I think this was the 4th one I did? Using random stuff from around my studio to make scenes that can be viewed from any angle. Experiments in visual storytelling!

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Does it count as an Arduino UNO shield if, instead of a PCB, it’s made from wooden coaster templates lasercut with holes for wires? Turns out yes, but only if you put a tiny picture of a duck on it. I don’t make the rules 🤷‍♀️

Details on my ATtiny84 and ATtiny85 microchip programmer.

The image explains how the device allows me to use an Arduino UNO microcontroller to program ATtiny84 and ATtiny85 microchips.

Top view of my device, showing the breadboard where the ATtiny84/85 chips are inserted.

Side view of the device, showing where the USB port connection to your computer is made.

Bottom view of the device, showing a laser-engraved duck :)

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

I got tired of always looking up the pin info and honestly I forgot how delighted making lil ASCII pictures makes me :)

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nick yonge 🌱 @nickyonge.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Making glowing lanterns. Running lil workshops to make glowing lanterns. Helping ppl customize their lil glowing lanterns. I’m enjoying where I’m at right now :)

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