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  • Paper notes: Computational parasites and hydropower: A political ecology of Bitcoin mining on the Columbia River

    I just finished reading this paper on a lazy Sunday morning, and this post is a bit of an experiment in trying to capture the stuff I learn and make it easier to come back to in future. Why is this paper interesting? This paper does a fantastic job of exploring the politics behind cryptocurrencies, […]

    February 12, 2023
  • Useful resources for developers interested in solar

    A friend of mine, Carlton Gibson recently asked me for some links, people to follow, and leads in general to look up for a developers taking a new interest in solar technology. @mrchrisadams hiya — happy new year! Can I ask, if I asked if you had any good leads on accounts/blogs to follow on […]

    January 8, 2023
  • TIL: Using Caddy with Django apps instead of Nginx

    As mentioned before, I’ve been doing a bunch of work recently with Caddy, and a number of web apps. These are my notes for using Caddy, and why I think I prefer using it over nginx from now on. I also share a sample Caddyfile config for showing how to use it instead of nginx.

    January 6, 2023
  • TIL: Gunicorn settings you will actually use

    I’ve recently been doing a bit of work setting up Django applications to work with Gunicorn and Caddy of late, and I’ve settled on these settings for now, as the ones I wish I had at my fingertips when working with Gunicorn to serve python apps. Read on for a sample config with explanations of […]

    January 6, 2023
  • Quick notes before I forget about last mile mobility, community tech and climate

    I keep looking for these links, and searching through my own mastodon /twitter blog poss is getting old. so I’m going dump them here Ways to direct funding to more sustainable variants of community tech This is partly a response to a blog post from Matt Webb aages back about last mile delivery in COVID […]

    December 9, 2022
  • Useful context for hydrogen economy convos – a recent keynote by Michael Liebreich on hydrogen

    This talk, by Michael liebriech communicates a massive amount of useful knowledge in 20 mins, and crucially provides useful context for assessing claims of hydrogen being a silver bullet in loads of sectors. Michael liebreich‘s keynote speech at the world hydrogen congress 2022 Things I learned Jacob Reese Mogg most had literally called hydrogen a […]

    October 30, 2022
  • Experiments with remote birthday greetings

    I’ve recently been experimenting with using remote conferencing tools to make it easier to use video for richer, more intimate messages, and below is a post I’ve shared in a few private social networks. I tried a few services, but it turns out that it’s totally possible to use enterprise teleconferencing software to share recorded […]

    March 29, 2020
  • Getting the bottom of that asinine article about the CO2 footprint of email

    I keep seeing people online talk about this piece in the Guardian. I shared this thread when it first came out, as it made me pretty angry before, but I think I need to expand on it now, as it Just. Won’t. Die. I’m miffed because this is the digital version of talking entirely about […]

    February 8, 2020
  • Notes from the Future Ethics at UX Book club

    I went to the first UX Book Club Berlin in a while last night, and it covered Cennyd Bowles’ book from 2018, Future Ethics. Below are my notes. Apologies for the quality. A set of notes for future reference Peter’s Bihr’s writing is accessible and really interesting in this field. This whose work I referred […]

    January 31, 2020
  • Why I spend time working on ClimateAction.tech

    I’ve been investing a bunch of time into ClimateAction.tech, an online community since around August 2018. I’ve seen it grow from a private slack group of about 100 people into something closer to 1600 people now, and I figured it would be worth writing down why I spend this time. I’ve tried to work out […]

    January 20, 2020
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