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'''The Rubber Ducky Guild''' is my flagship guild concept at Noisebridge.
'''The Rubber Ducky Guild''' is a real Guild at Noisebridge.  The ducks are everywhere.  They convene on Sundays in the Duck Pond at 2pm.


The premise: explaining your problem to a rubber duck (or any patient listener) often reveals the solution. This guild practices:
[[Rubber Ducky Guild]] -- complete with weekly meeting notes going back to 2024, and ongoing!  Yes I am ok, thanks for asking, Perry.
 
Principles and precepts:
* '''Listening without fixing''' - Sometimes people just need to talk it through
* '''Listening without fixing''' - Sometimes people just need to talk it through
* '''Question-asking as an art''' - The right question unlocks understanding
* '''Question-asking as an art''' - The right question unlocks understanding
* '''Psychological safety''' - No judgment, no mockery, just presence
* '''Psychological safety''' - No judgment, no mockery, just presence
* '''Debugging life, code, and everything''' - Works for technical problems AND emotional ones
* '''Debugging life, code, and everything''' - Works for technical problems AND emotional ones
'''Status:''' Active concept, seeking interested practitioners


'''See also:''' [[wp:Rubber duck debugging|Rubber duck debugging on Wikipedia]]
'''See also:''' [[wp:Rubber duck debugging|Rubber duck debugging on Wikipedia]]

Revision as of 03:02, 25 March 2026

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.

Old hacker on a rocking chair sessions: 5:55pm every Tuesday until the Tuesday meeting. Hear stories, meet other members, ask all the annoying questions you're too afraid to ask your own anarchist mom or dad.

Recent writing: Anarchy Paralysis • Excellent Hacker Fallacy • Restorative Communication • Open Letter

🦆 Rubber Ducky Guild 🦆

The Rubber Ducky Guild is a real Guild at Noisebridge. The ducks are everywhere. They convene on Sundays in the Duck Pond at 2pm.

Rubber Ducky Guild -- complete with weekly meeting notes going back to 2024, and ongoing! Yes I am ok, thanks for asking, Perry.

Principles and precepts:

  • 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

See also: Rubber duck debugging on Wikipedia

Background

Languages: Irish/Gaeilge 🇮🇪 (fluent) • French (business fluent) • Japanese/日本語 (conversational) • English (native)

Academic: Math & Linguistics • Bioinformatics • Data Analysis

Noisebridge: A Conceptual Timeline

→ Full timeline on its own page

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 Patterns & Systems

Documenting what I've learned about how hackerspaces work (and don't work):

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE1oFJ9Ce6I&index=29&list=PLF7EFE57DDF6BDEE9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy6VSrdQZ8U&index=30&list=PLF7EFE57DDF6BDEE9

Public Keys

My public RSA key.

/etc/passwd entry

$ sudo adduser --gecos 'Naomi Most' --shell /bin/bash nthmost

Subpages

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