Tag: coding
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On using solar & batteries to provide 90% of the world population with 90% of their electricity demand for below 90 €/MWh
I came across this wild stat today, from an energy modelling friend, Tom Brown, who had another modeller refine it to provide the 90/90/90 framing, that I want more people to know about. Basically, at at 2030 prices, solar and batteries can provide 90% of the world population with 90% of their electricity demand for…
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How to use GenAI models if you care about the energy they consume
This is (was?) a short post, to collate some of the work I’ve been doing over the last few months, to better understand the environmental footprint of using various generative AI tools, particularly for coding. I’ve already written a little about the tension between AI the tool and AI the project – generative AI is…
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This is not news but Mozilla’s Developer Docs site is fantastic
I recently was trying to debug why some snazzy passwordless sign-in flow wasn’t working on Firefox for me, when it worked just fine on Chrome, and investigation lead to me reading up on CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing), a way to share access to resources (like images, js files and so on) across domains. I’m…
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How to search better with Atom
I’ve been using Atom as my text editor for longer than any other text editor now, after using Textmate, Sublime Text, and Vim for a couple of years each. In this post, I show a little tip I’ve discovered to help make searching more powerful. Using Atom? I like using Atom as an editor. It’s free, open…