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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 30/09/2026

Random observation of mine but I reckon lots of families who would normally go overseas for their September school holidays have stayed in NZ and have gone skiing instead

A webcam screenshot of Cardrona ski field showing it absolutely heaving with people. In previous years it's normally fairly quiet at this stage in the season

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 26/09/2026

Super impressed with the SigEnergy gear. Dumping both the solar and the battery into the car is awesome

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 23/09/2026

Spending my lunchtime reading the exploits of my great, great grandfather...

A newspaper clipping from 11 October 1880 telling the story of one of my forebears finding a skeleton in the bush

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 11/09/2026

Back in the day you could be bought before a court for not vaccinating your kid

A paper clipping from Paperpast describing an ancestor being bought before a court in the Wairarapa for not vaccinating his child in a timely manner.

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 08/09/2026

Lovely morning beginning

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 06/09/2026

Tonight's adventures in geekery

A smart switch is held in electronic helping hands while multiple wires are connected to it and then to a USB to TTL connector installed in a laptop

The final result which is firmware that only talks locally rather than back to overseas. Instant integration with Home Assistant for those in the know

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 04/09/2026

I feel like I'm winning on the hamburger buns tonight

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 31/08/2026

On the 3rd time of having this ebike motor apart I'm approaching expert level 😎

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 30/08/2026

Significant GPS spoofing / jamming going on over Poland in the Gordon Bennett gas balloon race. The Swiss team seems to have grabbed the longest possible path. live.gordonbennett.aero

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 28/08/2026

Smashing it out of the park with the new solar string

A screenshot of the SigEnergy app showing the solar panels producing 10.5kW on what is a wintery day outside

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 24/08/2026

Good lord... I've just learnt about a music genre called 'phonk' which my 10yo was asking about. Apparently its nothing to do with syncopated basslines and horn sections

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 22/08/2026

Saturday experiments in tech geekery

A photo of a Google Pixel 6 phone getting "upgraded" to GrapheneOS

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 14/08/2026

Lunchtime walk around the block Wanaka New Zealand

A photo of a mountain with snow on it, on a day we call a bluebird, where there are no clouds in the sky. In the centre of the snow is Treble Cone skifield

A gravel path leads towards a deep green forest in the distance with a deep blue sky above

A wandering gravel path leads towards Wanaka township with typical Otago hills of the Pisa Range in the distance and blue sky above

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 10/08/2026

OMFG! This is the one feature from the other site that I missed...

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 05/08/2026

A follow-up a couple of hours later... #solarworksinthecold

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 01/08/2026

Felt more aggressive than this

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 31/07/2026

After two attempts to get into Queenstown yesterday we got flown back to Auckland with a fuel stop in Christchurch. Let's hope the landing is more successful this morning...

A view out the window of an aircraft flying over the Southern Alps of New Zealand

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 27/07/2026

Great day for a flight from ZQN to AKL

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

good article and, crucially, a good list at the end of cookware/kitchenware lines that are still quality (and family owned)

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 18/07/2026

Cardrona Alpine Resort Wanaka New Zealand

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 16/07/2026

Quite a significant amount of rolling that made me hesitate and think seriously about getting under the table

A shaking Layers Map shows ground shaking models produced from a combination of strong motion measurements and ground motion modelling that estimate the shaking intensity around New Zealand

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 16/07/2026

#eqnz - that sure rocked the house big time here in Wanaka!

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 09/07/2026

Dawn of Matariki Cardrona skifield Wanaka | New Zealand

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 09/07/2026

Shittyeah! Charging the car at 25kW

Home energy dashboard showing a house with solar panels generating 6kW, a car charging in the garage at 25kW, and battery storage discharging at 9kW while the grid is importing power at 10kW

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 08/07/2026

The fire inside is making up for the grim weather outside...

Mountains covered with new snow and grey mist/cloud

An ultra low emissions fire burns brightly

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 08/07/2026

The comments have some crazy ideas about how this works... Hooking up our Hyundai Ioniq 5 to our SigEnergy DC V2X means we can power the whole house for days at the maximum 10kW of the inverter. Then fill it back up again when the sun shines.

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Tim Welch @timwelch.nz · 03/07/2026

Scone Saturday With extra Korean chilli