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@whack@hachyderm.io

“A Young Turk spared hackerdom from respectability” - The Wall Street Journal

I'm a hacker living in California. I take photos of arthropods, do various computer projects, and do lots of repairs on things around my house. I also like to bike and trail run :)

20+ years of open source, systems administration, software engineering, distributed systems, and infosec. You may have used software I've built -- Logstash, fpm, grok, pleaserun, xdotool.

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Ever get so into your task that you just collapse where you are and fall asleep? Bees… sometimes. This bumblebee is gonna overnight on this scabiosa. (Bombus vandykei?)

A fuzzy, yellow and black striped bumblebee holds motionless to a pink scabiosa flower. A voiceover whispers, “shhh they’re sleeping”

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Found a house wren doing an insect(?) delivery to what looks like another adult? The in-hole bird looks older than a nestling. Do the males of this species bring females snacks during nesting? Is it nesting material?

A wren pokes its head out of a tree hole with a beak holding some food? or nesting material?

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After some reading, I’m guessing it’s an almost-fledgling being fed by a parent. The other nestling/fledglings here like robins and house finches look a bit more of a mess-of-a-bird so my calibration is off 😂

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This bird's probably wondering if I'm ever gonna go leave. I came back the next day with some good daytime light.

A small bird sits on a thin branch of a toyon. Its beak open whlie it sings.
The bird faces the nesting hole to deliver some food to its nestlings. A rippling grey-black-brown pattern follows the outer wing feathers and down the tail features.

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It's hoverfly appreciation time. <3

A small hoverfly with a mirrored yellow-black pattern on its abdomen stands on a rose flower's stamen area.
A hoverfly eats pollen from a blue flower with yellow pollen.
A hoverfly fetches nectar from an flower. The fly has alternating yellow-black stripes on its abdomen with the top stripe having a split in the center.

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