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Plain text: thank you!!! with the low low price of 0 dabloons everyone can get it at picochat (imessage app) [credits: IdreesInc on Reddit]
Omg, I'm so glad to see people using my projects in creative ways like this! I hope you enjoy, and remember that if you tap the pen icon once more it will activate rainbow mode! https://idreesinc.com/#picochat
I made an open-source letter editor inspired by Animal Crossing New Horizons! It's pixel-perfect and even includes the seasonal stationary! Took me forever to screenshot each card and painstakingly copy out the colors and formatting, but I'm super happy with how it turned out! You can even click the bottle in the bottom right to see a random letter design shared by other users!
Here's a link to the editor: https://acmail.idreesinc.com Check out the source code here: https://github.com/IdreesInc/Animal-Crossing-Letter-Generator And feel free to share your designs or notify me about bugs on the project Discord here: https://discord.gg/6yxE9prcNc
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Bomber Flies: these flies launch their own eggs into the nests of wasps and bees, hovering in mid-air as they do so; the females also have a unique perivaginal pouch that is known as a "sand chamber" because it is filled with sand
Above: Anastoechus sp. (top) and Anastoechus nitidulus (bottom)
The flies of this family (Bombyliidae) are generally referred to as "bee flies," because they are known to mimic bees and bumblebees, but many of them are also known as "bomber flies," thanks to their unusual ovipository technique.
Above: a bomber fly of the genus Anastoechus
As the female bomber fly is preparing to lay her eggs, she will usually look for a soil-hidden nest that already contains the eggs/larvae of another insect. Most bomber flies lay their eggs in the nests of wasps and bees, but there are a few species that are known to target beetles, grasshoppers, locusts, other flies, and/or caterpillars, instead. Once the bomber fly has found a suitable nest, she will hover over the entrance to the burrow and rapidly flick her abdomen up and down until she has launched a single egg into the nest. She must then go searching for more nests in which to lay her other eggs.
Above: Anastoechus sp.
After hatching, the parasitoid larvae of the bomber fly feeds on the eggs/larvae of the host species (i.e. the nest's original occupants). As this article explains:
When a bee fly egg hatches, a tiny larva called a planidium emerges. The planidium is quite unlike most fly larvae (also known as maggots); they are adapted for moving quickly in search of a host. Once the planidium finds a host, it will attach itself to the host’s exterior, like a leech or sea lamprey, and begin to feed. Yes folks, this is the stuff of nightmares.
Female bomber flies also have another peculiar trait: their abdomen contains a specialized perivaginal pouch known as a "sand chamber." During the ovipository process, the fly fills this pouch with fine grains of sand, and her eggs are then coated in the sand as they pass through the perivaginal pouch. The pouch is also lined with elongated setae ("hairs") and enlarged spikes that prevent the grains of sand from spilling back out.
The overall purpose of the "sand chamber" is still unclear, but many researchers believe that coating the eggs in a layer of sand may help to improve the viability of the eggs by preventing them from being damaged as they are launched to the ground, and that it also provides them with some camouflage after they have landed. Some researchers have argued that it prevents the eggs from becoming dehydrated, because the barrier helps to improve fluid retention, while others believe that it improves the mother's aim by increasing the weight of each egg. There is some evidence to suggest that it could also prevent the eggs from being detected (and then destroyed, abandoned, or ejected) by the host species, because the sand helps to mask/mute the egg's biochemical signals.
Above: Anastoechus barbatus
Adult bomber flies tend to feed on pollen and nectar. They are excellent pollinators, and their parasitoid larvae may also help to keep wasp and bee populations in check.
This article notes that bee flies (particularly Anastoechus nitidulus) likely served as the inspiration for the Pokémon known as cutiefly:
Sources & More Info:
USGS: Bombyliidae Fly
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: The Evolutionary Pattern of Host Use in the Bombyliidae (Diptera) Family
YouTube: Video of a Bomber Fly (Bombylius major) Selecting a Nest and then Launching her Egg into the Burrow
Smithsonian Institution Press: Bee Flies of the World (pages 6 and 27)
Michigan State University: Bee Flies
Animal Diversity Web: Genus Bombylius
Animal Diversity Web: Anthrax albofasciatus
Journal of Geek Studies: The Entomological Diversity of Pokémon
My Minecraft programming font Monocraft has been updated to v4.0 and now includes different font weights!
Thanks to the fantastic work of @Dheatly23, Monocraft now supports bold and italics natively! Their code adds multiple weights including lig
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Added app switching with the D-pad! Next step will be the counter app which should hopefully be a lot easier than the other two apps were.
Now we're talking! Had to use a helper script to generate 15 positions for each hand and then some code to flip the sprites and background tiles, but we've got a game-accurate clock!
Just finished fixing up this well-loved camera that I bought entirely because it was made by a company called “Miranda”. Here’s to hoping it actually works!
I can't believe it, someone has made it so you can play Game Boy games on your Apple Watch. What a time to be alive... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/arcemu-emulator-by-arcadia/id6496282733
Currently working on porting the Pokétch from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl to the Game Boy! So far I have the digital watch app working, but I still have a few more apps I want to to build before release ⌚️
I have discovered the perfect coding font
I was strolling around GitHub this morning while working on Indexing Your Heart, and I came across this coding font. It has now become my font for the terminal.
Though it took way longer than I admit getting the font patched with Nerd Font support, I'm really pleased with the results. Also switched the color scheme to a more Minecraft-like one (Birds of Paradise, ICYMI).
You can grab the font at https://github.com/IdreesInc/Monocraft.
My beautiful wife, taken with a vintage 1958 Ricoh 16 on 16mm film and developed and scanned by hand!
This is the MiniDisc that contains the song we used at our wedding while my bride walked down the aisle! Because there was no way I was going to deal with Spotify and Bluetooth on my wedding day 💽