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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 1d

Beautiful view of my favorite part of Aotearoa!

MODIS Terra, September 18th, 2025 Can't believe that satellite is still taking such gorgeous pics for 26 years now! 😱 Gonna be so sad when she's retired.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 3d

Gosh I hate it when I suffer from "mental health"

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 27d

Key takeaways for #OpenSource contributors:

- Celebrate your wins
- Address leadership burnout
- Improve onboarding processes
- Embrace strategic thinking

Read the full report to learn how JupyterHub is evolving and what other projects can apply:
voicesofjupyterhub.orgmycology.com

voicesofjupyterhub.orgmycology.com

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 27d

The Voices of Jupyter Hub Report -

🚀 Open source success story: JupyterHub's journey and lessons learned 📚

JupyterHub has empowered hundreds of thousands of learners and researchers. But like any project, it faces challenges.

voicesofjupyterhub.orgmycology.com

#OpenScience #Jupyter

voicesofjupyterhub.orgmycology.com

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · Aug 30

New Zealanders electricity bills are already high. When Luxon blocks offshore wind, by fast tracking seabed mining in the same place, he is driving electricity prices higher, while blocking new low emissions generation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Wind power firm departs, amid fast-track controversy over seabed mining

A plan for an offshore wind power generation site has been abandoned as the company has pulled out, as controversy continues over seabed mining also planned for the area.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · Aug 28

@fernandoperez.org was just looking out for us all long ago 😆

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · Aug 13

🚨 We've just released a new resource from our work with CZI EOSS projects around developing a security mindset in your Open Source project. We hope this is broadly useful! Use it and adapt it to plan a 1-2 hour conversation with your contributor community.

Worksheet - Open Source Project Security

Developing a Security Mindset for Your Open Source Project Authors: Georgia Bullen, Robert P. Davey, Beth Duckles, Jonah Duckles, Eriol Fox, Kate Hertweck, Dan Sholler, David Swenson, Kirstie Whitaker...

docs.google.com

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · Aug 5

TFW an AI hiring bot sends you a snapshot of your GitHub that says you’re in the top 1% of HTML engineers globally. My response “tell your algo to go home, it be drunk”. Should I have played along 🤔?

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · Aug 3

Now why would you ever consider including learners (students) in the change being proposed? 🫠 Omiting learners from the process tells me all I need to know. Luckily my kids are done with that system now.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · Jul 9

Lovely snaps from 30 June and 5 Jul of Aotearoa ❤️

Reposted by Jonah Duckles

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Jun 16

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
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16 June 2025
Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · May 29

Ensihtification USA Edition: Ring doorbell, rings the doorbell on your phone as a push notification. No more pesky doorbell sounds in the house. Family member leaves to go to the store & asks you to wait for their package. Doesn't help that it rings their phone. 😆 What problem are we solving again!?

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · May 15

When I can swing it, I try to work 4-day weeks in my consulting work. It is a MUCH better pace of life. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/10/i...

Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true.

In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries in the world to adopt the four-day working week, not through a general law, but through agreements allowing workers to negotiate ...

farmingdale-observer.com

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · May 12

An interesting counterpoint to "Globalization wasn't good for the USA" - www.noahpinion.blog/p/globalizat...

Globalization did not hollow out the American middle class

The protectionist narrative is more myth than fact.

www.noahpinion.blog

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · Apr 3

Yesterday I went and became a kiwi citizen with my whānau. Here is a beautiful picture of Aotearoa from space (MODIS Terra from Mar-30) to celebrate. Can't wait to lean into this new phase of life here.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · Apr 2

"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, ‘What would I do if I were a horse?’"

pluralistic.net/2025/04/02/m...

Pluralistic: What’s wrong with tariffs (02 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · Mar 26

Do you have existing academic / industrial open source collaborations? We'd love to talk to you and learn more about what makes them tick, how they formed and what you hope for them in the future.

Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · Mar 26

📖 Check out OrgMycology's latest shared resource!

We've been doing a lot of work with academics who seek to deepen their collaborations with industry. Would love to hear feedback from both side here, did we hit the mark, what areas did we miss?

orgmycology.com/10-simple-ru...

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · Mar 25

A few thinking prompts about the below 10-simple rules:

What are some ways you lead groups you don't have formal authority over?

How do you nudge, cajole, encourage, direct, and get people excited about the work?

Do you find this kind of thing comes naturaly for you, or takes intention & focus?