Jonah Duckles
@jonah.duckles.nz
Exploring the intersection of people, technology and sustained impact. Ōtepoti, Aotearoa
Expect nerdery of all kinds.
Expect nerdery of all kinds.
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."
February 3, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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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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
January 19, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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
Okay Ōtepoti, you know how to turn on a beautiful sunset beach walk! (from Monday night)
January 21, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Okay Ōtepoti, you know how to turn on a beautiful sunset beach walk! (from Monday night)
I feel like they may have skipped a few steps.
December 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I feel like they may have skipped a few steps.
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.
December 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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.
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.
December 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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.
A couple of cheeky kea, a whio with chicks at Iris Burn today while I volunteered doing comms for the Kepler Challenge.
December 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A couple of cheeky kea, a whio with chicks at Iris Burn today while I volunteered doing comms for the Kepler Challenge.
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. 🤔
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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. 🤔
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
Jupyter Everywhere
Jupyter for teaching, sharing, and exploring — everywhere.
www.jupytereverywhere.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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
Why hello there Kererū
November 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Why hello there Kererū
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
If you want to try check out kiwix.org
No Internet? No Problem
Download and browse Wikipedia along with hundreds of educational websites. Free knowledge anytime, anywhere, without an internet connection.
kiwix.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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
If you want to try check out kiwix.org
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.
October 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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.
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? 😆
October 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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? 😆
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.
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.
October 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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.
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.
Gosh I hate it when I suffer from "mental health"
October 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Gosh I hate it when I suffer from "mental health"
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
🚀 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
September 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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
🚀 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
Reposted by Jonah Duckles
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
August 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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...
🚨 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
August 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
🚨 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.
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 🤔?
August 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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 🤔?
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.
August 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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.
Lovely snaps from 30 June and 5 Jul of Aotearoa ❤️
July 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Lovely snaps from 30 June and 5 Jul of Aotearoa ❤️
Reposted by Jonah Duckles
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
June 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
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!?
May 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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!?
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
May 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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...
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
May 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
An interesting counterpoint to "Globalization wasn't good for the USA" - www.noahpinion.blog/p/globalizat...