Reads, takes and links. Posted here, before I forget them.
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Why should there be a WordPress Sustainability Group?
Just like there is Umbraco Sustainability Group, and Wagtail Sustainability Group, and something related in the Drupal Community, I think it’s useful for there to be a WordPress sustainability group, who have an interest in understanding and reducing the climate impact of the project. These are the arguments I would use for it to exist,…
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Where do I find the dates of future public company filings in France and Germany?
I’m looking for open data sets of some public company data for Germany and France. And in particular I’d reallty appreciate pointers to the answers for the following question: Is there any centralised source that lists the dates of the AGMs of publicly traded companies, or when they last filed their management accounts? That is…
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An update on air quality notes at FOSDEM
About a week ago, I wrote a blog post about air quality and CO2 sensors as a way to help make more informed decisions about going into rammed devrooms when at conferences like FOSDEM. This is an update on what I’ve learned since, with links to active projects, interested devrooms, and other such goodies. First…
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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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How I use LLMs – neat tricks with Simon’s `llm` tool
Earlier this year I co-authored a report about the direct environmental impact of AI, which might give the impression I’m massively anti-AI, because it talks about the signficant social and environmental of using it. I’m not. I’m (still, slowly) working through the content of the Climate Change AI Summer School, and I use it a…
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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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