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Chris Birdie

@chris-birdie.bsky.social

sydney, surfing, diving, coding

28 Followers  |  62 Following  |  43 Posts  |  Joined: 10.03.2025
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The problem is that solar isn't available at night when there is high demand. This project wants to reflect light on to existing panels at twilight to extend the hours of their usefulness into a high demand period

14.12.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

traumatized by that screenshot uploaded

12.12.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my take away from web development this week is that there are two many ways to write incorrect HTML for responsive video elements

02.08.2025 05:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

getting all dependencies through Kotlin 2+ and Compose Multiplatform 1.8 upgrades

18.06.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You don't want to find out if they've achieved a new level of burntness? πŸ˜…

27.04.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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this is a harmless jelly... but Ill always be grateful for the turtles that eat the blue bottles! πŸͺΌ

#marinelife #jellyfish #underwaterphotography

14.04.2025 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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hard to find a good hiding spot once you're such a long shark

#wobbegong #shark #marinelife #freediving #underwaterphotography

11.04.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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underwater landscapes are so underrated! you don't always need to have a neat critter in frame πŸ—ΏπŸ“Έ

#MarineLife #UnderwaterPhotography #Rock #NotRockFish

10.04.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wow glad such a thing exists πŸ˜‚

09.04.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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50% armour... 50% claws... eats the tiniest bits of rock algae

#MarineLife #Crab #SlightlyAboveWaterPhotography

09.04.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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macaroni anemone... or as I prefer... macaronemone!

#marinelife #diving #underwaterphotography

08.04.2025 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

photo picker is such a disaster on Android. Google changes it too often and each version commits the same sins.

No wonder every app is using a completely different UI to select photos. It's a challenge finding your photo every time.

#mobiledev #androiddev #programming

06.04.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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asking or offering?

#marinelife #sydneycommonoctopus #occy #freediving #underwaterphoyography

05.04.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

still haven't seen a manta yet (or made it to Hawaii) 🀞

I did join the crowds looking for the mystery manta that visited Sydney for a single day last year though πŸ˜‚

04.04.2025 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

gotta be tough once you've already formed an addiction to nudibranchs

04.04.2025 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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enhance!

04.04.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I should start timing how long it takes to be asked for an urchin by Big Blue ⌚

#MarineLife #GordonsBay #Syndney #Freediving #UnderwaterPhotography #BlueGroper

04.04.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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jealous of the nudis with their own crowns πŸ‘‘

#marinelife #nudibranch #underwaterphotography

03.04.2025 05:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

seriously... almost lost it between spotting and then getting the camera out πŸ˜…

02.04.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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did ya get em? 😁

01.04.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Find the Rock Fish? 4/5 ⭐ Difficulty

(outlined in 🧡)
#MarineLife #RockFish #UnderwaterPhotography #Freediving

01.04.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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wrasse & ray - swim buddies and friends

#MarineLife #Freediving #UnderwaterPhotography

01.04.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thats rough man

27.03.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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whatcha doin over there bud?? odd to see big blue hiding under a rock so deep

#marinelife #bluegroper #diving #underwaterphotography #seacritters

26.03.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

jpg - wasn't using RAW mode at the time sadly. perhaps this is a good reason to switch over

24.03.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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can this be saved? would have been one of my best, but I way overexposed this poor nudi.

curious if lightroom/etc. can be used to fix something like this πŸ˜…

#MarineLife #UnderwaterPhotography #OverExposed #Nudibranch #seaslug

23.03.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

incredible!

22.03.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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nudibranCH or nudibranK? it's all sea slugs to me anyhow

#marinelife #seaslugs #underwaterphotography

22.03.2025 05:56 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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and our big blue king at #1 πŸ˜‚

20.03.2025 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Most spotted critters of 2024!

Numbers are based on the critter tags of logs written by the community!

photos 1,2 are Caitlin's
photo 3 is TMK's
photos 4,5 are mine

#MarineLife #Austalia #Diving

20.03.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0