User:Nthmost
Naomi Most aka nthmost — Member since August 25, 2009
Contact: nthmost on Discord | Slack | GitHub
Currently
Working on guild structure as a model for distributed authority, restorative communication practices, and helping Noisebridge navigate community dynamics.
Recent writing: Anarchy Paralysis • Missing Stair • Restorative Communication • Open Letter
🦆 Rubber Ducky Guild 🦆
The Rubber Ducky Guild is my flagship guild concept at Noisebridge.
The premise: explaining your problem to a rubber duck (or any patient listener) often reveals the solution. This guild practices:
- Listening without fixing - Sometimes people just need to talk it through
- Question-asking as an art - The right question unlocks understanding
- Psychological safety - No judgment, no mockery, just presence
- Debugging life, code, and everything - Works for technical problems AND emotional ones
Status: Active concept, seeking interested practitioners
See also: Rubber duck debugging on Wikipedia
Background
Languages: Gaeilge Uladh (Ulster Irish) 🇮🇪 (conversational) • French (business fluent) • Japanese/日本語 (basic) • English (native)
Academic: Math & Linguistics • Bioinformatics • Data Analysis
Working Groups: Security • Community • Fractal (success metric: we haven't had a single meeting yet)
Open Source Work
Python libraries & tools
| Project | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| metapub | PubMed/NCBI research access library | 100s of ⭐, cited in papers |
| illuminate | Bioinformatics toolkit | In use at CDC |
| secureconfig | Secure configuration management | Active |
| sensate | Sensor data toolkit | Active |
All projects: github.com/nthmost • pypi.org/user/nthmost
Tech I like
AMQP • liquidsoap + icecast • Asterisk PBX • Raspberry Pi • Python (obviously)
Community Philosophy
The important stuff:
1. Hackerspace Community Dynamics
2. Guilds - Guild structure as distributed authority and knowledge-sharing
3. Why communities fail to act on harm
4. Routing around harmful behavior instead of fixing it
5. Framework for addressing conflicts
Project Graveyard
Projects past but not forgotten 🪦
Streaming Radios
Hosted various internet radio stations
Live studios:
Algorithmic stations:
Stack: liquidsoap to sculpt the station, Python to wrap it, icecast to stream it.
Miscellaneous
Voluntary Public Embarrassment
Public Keys