Reads, takes and links. Posted here, before I forget them.
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What is the easier to understand way to say “building with cloud primitives?”
I’ve been following Bert Hubert on social media since coming across his posts a couple of years ago, and this weekend he asked an interesting question: “Going to the cloud’ can mean anything from renting a VM, deploying containers, or building on top of advanced (hyperscaler) cloud services (queues, buckets, customer IAM etc). Is there…
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Who is publishing sustainability reports “the right way” in Europe now that we have the CSRD?
This post dives into what ought to be possible with sustainability reporting in 2025, and is intended to provide some context for ongoing discussions about how changes to disclosure laws pan out in Europe, now that there’s a push to strip out what are seen as the most socially useful bits of them. If you’re…
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Sustainability *via* tech, vs sustainability *of* tech
I’m sharing this post here, because I’ve found this diagram useful in clarifying recent discussions about green IT, or sustainability in the tech sector recently. Here’s the diagram I’ve been using in a few talks and to support discussions. Sustainability via tech / sustainability via IT These are the sustainability benefits you can acheive by…
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Why some people in Virginia get miffed about datacentres
Every year, there is an absolutely stellar deck from Nat Bullard, the former chief content officer of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, about climate, and this year, one of the slides caught my eye enough to share here – slide 169, which I’ve added below. We’ve heard stories about datacentres using around 20% of all the…
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Some quick notes before diving into the Euro stack report
I’m sharing this as a British person, now living in Europe, who is currently working through reading theough the recent Euro stack report closely. I am dashing this post out, in response to a question in a private chat where an American person reading about this Euro-stack idea for the first time, very reasonably asked:…
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Discovering Docling
A couple of years back, I started using a RSS reader again. I find it really useful for compiling notes for the CAT newsletter I’ve been editing and publishing most weeks, but I also end up with loads of links that are interesting, but do not fit. The first of hopefully a series of small…
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I’m at FOSDEM 2025
I’m at FOSDEM 20205, and having a url here is easier for sharing on various social networks than making one thread per network. My tips, for someone who has gone to a few now. Make a short list of sessions to go to: Here is a link of all the sessions that caught my eye.…
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Will new models like DeepSeek reduce the direct environmental footprint of AI?
I’m in a chat at work, and recently this question came up: Are folks expecting a reduction in energy demands if DeepSeek-style models become dominant vs the ones you see from Open AI? I’ve paraphrased it slightly, but it’s an interesting question, so rather than obnoxiously share a long answer into a that chat, I…
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Do tech firms need to report their revenue from the oil and gas sector now?
At work, we’re building some open source software to make it possible to parse corporate disclosures that a growing number of companies need to publish for the world to see. These are largely being driven by new laws passed around the world about corporate transparency, and I’m sharing a question here that I’d like some…
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2025 is the year that the RE100 change how they recognise green claims
I’ve been following Flexidao for a while, and they recently published an interesting post about updates from the RE100, and the new way the recognise claims around Green Energy. I figured it’s worth sharing here as I think it has implications on how people talk about green energy in datacentres – a long running, and…
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