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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 22/08/2026

Another day, another article I don't remember creating getting nominated for deletion

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 16/07/2026

why do men and women have different yaws

Figure of a standing man where rotation around the longitudinal (or vertical) axis is labeled 'roll', as might make sense if he was a superhero in flight.

Figure of a woman where rotation around the longitudinal/vertical axis is labeled 'yaw', as would make sense for a seated pilot.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 13/06/2026

hi @merriam-webster.com , I noticed you have no entry for demurre, as in "m-w's lexicographers are very chill and demurre". It means to remove the murre and other black-and-white pelagic birds, such as from the definition of loom 💔

It’s springtime in the loomery. An industrial tapestry loom is gathering scrap yarn and stray bobbins to prepare a nest for her upcoming clutch.

photo credit: Revolution Fibers, "Glimakra Julia 20-Shaft Drawloom Expansion Kit"

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 19/12/2025

today i have gathered them and labeled them all

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 26/08/2025

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.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 25/08/2025

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.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 19/08/2025

does anyone play WASD shooters like this?

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 21/04/2025

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.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 21/04/2025

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 #♞

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 01/04/2025

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.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 24/03/2025

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

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 24/03/2025

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.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 25/01/2025

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

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 21/12/2024

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.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 16/12/2024

Zhongyi 20mm 4.5x macro lens arrived today #photography

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 11/12/2024

We have both kinds of corella here: horizontal & vertical #ausbirds #wildoz #photography #birds

little corellas (Cacatua sanguinea) in various orientations in a tree

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 11/12/2024

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.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 07/12/2024

post somebody you’ve been told you look like who you definitely don’t look like

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 06/12/2024

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.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 06/12/2024

spoonbill is the name of the bird and musician. #ausbirds #wildoz #photography #birds

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 05/12/2024

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"

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 05/12/2024

Only appears after you've typed a character or two. Is on desktop + android at least

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 05/12/2024

WATCH: the entire 4 seconds of footage i filmed of this duck. #nature #birds #ausbirds 🌿🦆

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 03/12/2024

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

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 01/12/2024

friend in the biz telling me they need more lens flare

Arafura file snake (Acrochordus arafurae) with a healthy amount of lens flare and bokeh

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 01/12/2024

Happy Filesnake December‼ 📂🐍🎉 Ever wonder why they're called file snakes? Me too until I saw their scales have the texture of a coarse file Nikon micro-Nikkor 105mm @ f/3.2 #herps #nature #photography #NaturePhotography #reptiles #snakes #wildoz #auswildlife #biodiversity #DoINeedAllTheseHashtags

A captive wrinkle file snake or kedjebe (Acrochordus arafurae) in a zoo aquarium, forked tongue out, approaching the surface for air, surrounded by grassy water plants. At Melbourne zoo. I hope Filesnake December becomes a thing. Photo credit: Pengo Wray.

Close up photo of the skin of the live filesnake underwater, showing file-like scales, used for holding prey.

Same shot as previous, but more cropped. Close up of the skin, showing file-like scales, used for holding prey.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 30/11/2024

A very patient Australian freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni) #herps #reptiles #photography

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 29/11/2024

oh wow, thank you. let's see how this goes

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 28/11/2024

What would chairs look like if our legs bent the other way? Black-necked storks, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus australis #birds #birdfeed #ausbirds #photography #bird

A couple of black-necked storks sitting down at Melbourne zoo.

The IUCN status of the species was downgraded from Least Concern to Near Threatened in 2000, where it's remained for subsequent assessments, the last of which was in 2016. Threats including drainage of wetlands, felling of nest trees, development, encroachment of agriculture or aquaculture, overfishing, overgrazing, hunting and excessive capture for zoos.

Photo credit: Pengo Wray

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 27/11/2024

Minke whale, unknown sex, 6.1m, held at Mito Aquarium in Japan from Nov 26, 1955. Escaped 37 days later. From my English-language googling I can't work out if this individual cetacean was given a name: anyone know? Or names of the previous two held there? #marinelife #marinebiology #marinemammals 🐋

Minke whale (name unknown) underwater. Labeled "Submarine photograph" from the paper titled "Note on a Minke Whale Kept Alive in Aquarium" By SEIJI KIMURA and TAKAHISA NEMOTO

"Submarine photograph" from the paper titled "Note on a Minke Whale Kept Alive in Aquarium" By SEIJI KIMURA and TAKAHISA NEMOTO #underwaterphotography

Underwater view of the whale's tail/fluke. "Submarine photograph" from the paper titled "Note on a Minke Whale Kept Alive in Aquarium" By SEIJI KIMURA and TAKAHISA NEMOTO #marineresearch #cetaceans

Minke whale (name unknown) at the surface. Caption: "The minke whale in respirating. by the courtesy of Mr. T. Kawakami" from the paper Note on a Minke Whale Kept Alive in Aquarium By SEIJI KIMURA and TAKAHISA NEMOTO

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 22/11/2024

Looking over my mushroom photos for inspiration. These were in East Gippsland. Let me know if they can be ID'ed. 🍄📷 #fungifriends #fungifriday #naturephotography #goblincore

mushrooms and moss. Photo credit: Pengo Wray

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 21/11/2024

Polyn8! Here's a throwback. Something I programmed for an interactive music game exhibition. There was a 3D-printed "DJ" controller made from hard drive platters. The goal was to grow a space beehive from musical pollen. #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 20/11/2024

Secret alien language? World building for #gamedev? Mocked up this writing system for a game that I'll totally finish making some day. This is my first #indiegamedev post. Will be focusing on information design in games. Would love to explain this script but I'll leave it as a puzzle. #solodev

A pixelated secret code drawn in 'dotpict', a mobile app designed for pixelart. Sometimes I doodle or sketch things out in pixels.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 20/11/2024

pigeon who likes to hang around Species: Columba livia #birdfeed #birds #photography #birdlifeoz #ausbirds

Portrait photograph of a pigeon (Columba livia). Photo credit: Pengo Wray

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 20/11/2024

Reminds me to post my old profile pic. Here the uncropped shot with our little raven family. And another photo of them because why not? Species: Corvus mellori #raven #crow #ausbirds #bird #ornithology #birds #birdlifeoz #auswildlife #birding #wildoz #photography #naturephotography #🐉

Three little ravens (Corvus mellori), perched on a power line. Photo credit: Pengo Wray. 500mm f/6.3

Two crows (Corvus mellori) on a fence. One with wings splayed. Photo credit: Pengo Wray.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 19/11/2024

I'm fascinated at how easily clarity is lost from this relatively simple pattern—the graph of a knight's movements on a chessboard—when presented by this 3D layout algorithm. Using: three.js+react-force-graph #InformationDesign #complexity #NetSci #dataviz #visualization #scicomm #sciart #js #♞

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 17/11/2024

gecko just chillin' 🦎 Lens: Micro-NIKKOR 105mm. Soundtrack: Function

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 16/11/2024

Amazing. Giant Squid washed up on the beach. Anyone know the source? 🦑

Giant squid (Architeuthis dux) washed up on a beach with a man less than half its length lying to its left

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