Category: asides
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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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Parking an idea – WNDR, for Web Native Dynamic Rendering
I realised today when writing a post into the Django Forum that I had a half formed idea in the new post form that I had totally forgot about out. I spent some chatting with Carlton about it, so it seemed worth dropping the ideas here before they’re lost to the ether. Background – Carlton’s…
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What’s the air quality like in rooms at FOSDEM?
This post is placeholder until there’s a clearer plan to try instrumenting a few rooms with affordable CO2 sensors at FOSDEM, well known, free open source conference held in Brussels. Why do this? Broadly speaking, I think it’s a good idea to let people make more informed choices about being in crowded rooms, with unclear…
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The wagtail project template I wish existed
As of December 28th, 2024, this website visible at rtl.chrisadams.me.uk, is a WordPress blog. I ended up using it out of convenience after wasting too much of my life faffing around with building static site generators, and abortive attempts at hand-built CMSs. I’ve tried using Wagtail a few times to build these CMS’s too, but…
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A helpful way to think about how text editors are designed
As I understand it, this model, the Block Top / Text top Model by Erin Casali, was originally created to help people think about rich text editing in WordPress, but I think its’s also a helpful for thinking about editors in the wider sense now, like the kind you see in notebook interfaces like Marimo…
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You should try Pad Kra Pao
Earlier this year, I went to Thailand for my brother’s wedding, and for the first time in my life, I has Pad Kra Pao, which I understand to be one of national dishes of the country. It’s quickly become one of my fave meals, and after spending way too much time struggling with Instagram’s abysmal…
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Some notes from reading about the UK’s plan for clean power by 2030
For me at least, one of the most politically exciting things that happened this year was seeing the UK finally get rid of a conservative government and elect one that had to extremely ambitious climate promises in its manifesto. More specifically the goal to reach clean power by 2030 really caught my attention, and coincidentally…
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Revisiting H2-powered datacentres
This is a follow-on post from an earlier post I dashed out – Hydrogen datacentres – is this legit? – where a podcast interview caught my attention about one approach being sold to address demands on the grid caused by new datacentres. This post will make more sense if you have read it. Basically ECL…
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What I want from a mobile provider in 2024
I’m dashing this post as a follow up to this thread on Mastodon, when I was asking for pointers for new providers, after getting sick of Vodafone’s poor broadband service. It’s an outline of my circumstances as I hunt around for an alternative provider of mobile connectivity for someone who lives in Berlin. Here are…
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If you want greener energy, what’s the best way to get it?
I saw an interesting chart fly by recently from a tweet by Juliaen Jomaux, taken from the recent IEA Renewables report (page 57), What does this chart tell us? The key thing that attracted my attention was how in China, the use of fixed-tariffs / premiums, where anyone building a renewables project gets a fixed…