Organizing

San Francisco's anarchist hackerspace. I've been part of the fabric of this place since 2009 — not continuously, not without conflict, but always with genuine investment in what it could be.

• Led the CONTROL-ALT-DELETE reboot (2014) — a community intervention that stabilized the space when it faced potential city shutdown, and established new norms for membership and self-governance.
• Served as Acting Diplomat: external press and fundraising, government relations, internal facilitation and conflict mediation.
• Co-created the Guilds governance model with Mark (Arity) — addressing social fragmentation and creating stakes-based ownership structures. Preceded by the Fractal Working Group.
• Founded the Philosophy Guild and the Rubber Ducky Guild (whose rubber duck mascot is named MC Escher).
• Secured the noisebridge.net domain (acknowledged at the July 2019 meeting).
• Currently writing a history of Noisebridge and the hackerspace movement.

Hackers On Planet Earth X — New York City, 10,000+ attendees. Coordinated press access and interviews for NSA whistleblowers. Managed all media relationships for the conference and ran the @hope_pr Twitter feed throughout the event.

This was the year the Snowden disclosures were still radiating outward. Getting journalists to the right people, in the right rooms, without burning anyone — that was the work.

A federated VoIP network for hackerspaces — the idea being that any member of any connected space can pick up a phone and dial directly into another hackerspace. No accounts, no apps, no friction. Just a number and a ring.

Currently in its early days: Noisebridge and my own server. The infrastructure is built and the invitation is open — if you run a hackerspace and want to peer, dialbridge.nthmost.com has the details.

Irish is not a hobby. It is a living language spoken by a small and scattered community, a thread running back through my family to Creeslough, County Donegal. Gaeilge Quest is an act of preservation as much as learning — the site I wish I'd had when I started.

The Irish word ríomh means to weave, to compute, to narrate. My grandmother Kay McNulty — one of the six original programmers of ENIAC — was a native Irish speaker from Creeslough. The thread is long.

Kathleen Rita McNulty Mauchly Antonelli was one of the six women who programmed ENIAC — the first general-purpose electronic computer — in 1945–46. She was born in Creeslough, County Donegal, and was a native Irish speaker. The word "programmer" did not yet exist; she and her colleagues invented what that word would mean.

I am her granddaughter. I attended the unveiling of her memorial plaque in Creeslough in April 2023, and the opening of the Kay McNulty Data Centre at ATU Letterkenny in September 2025. I carry her story forward because it has not yet been fully told.

• Family representative at the Creeslough memorial plaque unveiling, April 2023.
• Family representative at the ATU Letterkenny Kay McNulty Data Centre opening, September 2025.
• Writing The Circuit Loom — an essay connecting ríomh, Kay's story, and the nature of computing. Forthcoming.
• Coverage in Irish and international press — see press page.