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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 18/08/2026

Mr 20 Micah. NHC Otago. Field hockey. NATIONALS. 🇳🇿🏑🔥 Help get this kid to Welly? Raffle's on, good prizes, good cause. Money goes direct to players, they add you to the drawing. DM me for details if you're keen!

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 02/08/2026

Great thinking....have a 3rd child, bank the incentive and then watch in 18 years as they still likely bugger off to Australia to find a job that pays a livable wage there. Deep thinking policy ideas from this lot.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 28/07/2026

Made a tool perhaps only I wanted (github.com/jduckles/txt...) Ever have a bunch of text files you want to compile into an epub? Now you can do it all in client side JS, repo has a CLI to bulk load chapters from a dir full of *.txt files. Check it out at jduckles.github.io/txt2epub/

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 17/07/2026

Aotearoa, you are sure looking beautiful from space today!

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 03/02/2026

TFW you get two unrelated & unpaid keynote invites 20min apart for 2 conferences in Ag and Astro 🤣. The emails have exactly the same template including: "We believe that your experience and comments will add an important dimension to what is potentially a very important discussion for the field."

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 19/01/2026

one of the strangest things about this particular moment is watching colonizers complain about other colonizers colonizing while in other contexts making the same arguments that the colonizers they are complaining about are making, and having absolutely no self-awareness of this rampant hypocrisy

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 21/01/2026

Okay Ōtepoti, you know how to turn on a beautiful sunset beach walk! (from Monday night)

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 19/12/2025

I feel like they may have skipped a few steps.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 11/12/2025

Hey MetService, why your radar interface to the public so so so bad. I kinda feel like we can't save lives and protect property with this jank.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 11/12/2025

In almost 9 years in NZ I don't think I've ever experienced a severe thunderstorm warning where I live. Today that changes 🤣. After living in Oklahoma through F5s and grapefruit size hail, I'm a bit like 🙄, but here we are.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 08/12/2025

Go for the Canada goose and goslings that were just out of frame then! 🤣

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 07/12/2025

Not sure DOC will be a fan of that one.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 06/12/2025

A couple of cheeky kea, a whio with chicks at Iris Burn today while I volunteered doing comms for the Kepler Challenge.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 26/11/2025

Spear phishing is getting rather sophisticated! DocuSign email with "Closing Docs" that takes me to a MS Account login at a .ru domain and my email templated inside the footer. 🤔

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 04/11/2025

Such a cool resource! Jupyter Everywhere is WebAssembly Jupyter environments with matplotlib, pandas, scikit learn and scipy. Born of a group trying to create environments for HS students to learn stats on Chromebooks, but incredibly widely useful! www.jupytereverywhere.org

jupytereverywhere.org

Jupyter Everywhere

Jupyter for teaching, sharing, and exploring — everywhere.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 01/11/2025

Oh the JonahDs of the world sign up for bank accounts, gaming platforms and so much crap using my old Gmail. I almost want to just nuke it completely 🫠

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 28/10/2025

I've started carrying around the full-text of Wikipedia on my phone. It is kind of magic to have THAT much information "offline" in your pocket. On a trans-pacific flight with dodgy wifi, it was a fantastic crossword puzzle solving resource 😆 If you want to try check out kiwix.org

kiwix.org

No Internet? No Problem

Download and browse Wikipedia along with hundreds of educational websites. Free knowledge anytime, anywhere, without an internet connection.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 26/10/2025

Stay tuned, that is kind of what I want to explore with my OIA request.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 25/10/2025

Oh NIWA, you're so cute...computing climate "virtual station data" for single points across Aotearoa and charging $500 per station to get the data. Selling data via a Shopify store 😆. My Official information Act request is in to learn a wee bit more about this grift.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 19/10/2025

Wow they must be very soft bells because I have never heard them in all my time on campus 😳

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 19/10/2025

I’ve heard the albatross bells, but never like hours chiming out on any tower in Dunedin.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 19/10/2025

On a visit to the US and hearing a clock tower in the distance. I don't think I've ever heard one in NZ. Are there active clock towers in NZ, or does NZ just reject them full-stop? 😆

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 14/10/2025

She's an old bird, well past her life expectancy. She was designed for 6 years, and we're at 25-26 now. Pretty good!

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 13/10/2025

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 · 10/10/2025

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

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 16/09/2025

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 · 16/09/2025

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 · 31/08/2025

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...

rnz.co.nz

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.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 28/08/2025

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

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 13/08/2025

🚨 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.

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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...

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 06/08/2025

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 · 03/08/2025

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 · 09/07/2025

Lovely snaps from 30 June and 5 Jul of Aotearoa ❤️

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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 · 29/05/2025

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 · 12/05/2025

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

noahpinion.blog

Globalization did not hollow out the American middle class

The protectionist narrative is more myth than fact.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 03/04/2025

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 · 02/04/2025

"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.net

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

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 26/03/2025

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.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 26/03/2025

📖 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 · 25/03/2025

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?

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 21/03/2025

10. Expect and prepare for community turnover Work to cultivate an environment that seeks to prevent contributor burnout People will need to leave/do other things, this is not a bad thing.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 21/03/2025

9. Make it easy If you want people to join you, make it easy to join. If you would like money, make it easy to pay you. If you want contribution, make it easy to contribute.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 21/03/2025

8. Listen and adapt to develop contributor motivation Understand that individuals’ professional / personal lives change, and so too might their motivation and availability.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 21/03/2025

7. Empower others in the group Encourage people to step up and do more than even they might know they can do, when they are interested in doing more and have the bandwidth (i.e., don’t overburden people).

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 21/03/2025

6. Foster inclusivity Know what you don’t want in your group’s dynamics and be sure to bring up things like toxic behavior and in group behaviors that can be exclusionary.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 21/03/2025

5. Intentionally build THIS group’s “culture” Collectively hold the community’s expectations and guidelines.

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Jonah Duckles @jonah.duckles.nz · 21/03/2025

4. Create agency for community members If community members find personal and career agency in the work they do with you, they'll be able to grow, and grow your organization's reach and impacts.

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