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"https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2024/07/what-makes-the-web-different-from-the-internet/", "published_at": "2024-07-09T16:44:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd10-d777-7020-8461-b112536def7a", "title": "Being in the Green Driving Foundation", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2024/05/being-in-the-green-driving-foundation/", "published_at": "2024-05-30T10:01:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd10-d777-7020-8461-b1125427cfd6", "title": "What I want from a mobile provider in 2024", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2024/05/what-i-want-from-a-mobile-provider-in-2024/", "published_at": "2024-05-14T12:25:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd20-c370-72ef-ac7d-68ae6cba7eb8", "title": "If you want greener energy, what’s the best way to get it?", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2024/05/if-you-want-greener-energy-whats-the-best-way-to-get-it/", "published_at": "2024-05-12T13:27:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd20-c370-72ef-ac7d-68ae6d784ddb", "title": "TIL: Keeping your hair when upgrading Django 3.2 behind a Caddy 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}, { "id": "01a0dd20-c370-72ef-ac7d-68ae702187cd", "title": "Hydrogen datacentres – is this legit?", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2024/01/hydrogen-datacentres-is-this-legit/", "published_at": "2024-01-17T12:45:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd20-c370-72ef-ac7d-68ae706e901c", "title": "How much power do hyperscalers use, and how much would it cost to go fossil-free 24 / 7 ?", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2024/01/how-much-power-do-hyperscalers-use-and-how-much-would-it-cost-to-go-24-7/", "published_at": "2024-01-10T20:31:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd20-c370-72ef-ac7d-68ae70aeed12", "title": "A new Californian law on offsets goes a long way to making them more transparent", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2024/01/a-new-californian-law-on-offsets-goes-a-long-way-to-making-them-more-transparent/", "published_at": "2024-01-10T09:49:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd20-c370-72ef-ac7d-68ae718c51e0", "title": "Listening notes: zero carbon cement on the Volts podcast", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2024/01/listening-notes-zero-carbon-cement-on-the-volts-podcast/", "published_at": "2024-01-04T18:13:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd20-c370-72ef-ac7d-68ae7259ace4", "title": "Fixed broadband growth is slowing down", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2024/01/fixed-broadband-growth-is-slowing-down/", "published_at": "2024-01-02T13:06:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd31-2e51-7341-a9a6-2d4664a84207", "title": "2023 in Review", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/12/2023-in-review/", "published_at": "2023-12-31T22:09:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd31-2e51-7341-a9a6-2d4665596ed6", "title": "TIL: buildpacks can rebase to save needless compute work", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/12/til-buildpacks-can-rebase-to-save-needless-compute-work/", "published_at": "2023-12-26T13:10:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd31-2e51-7341-a9a6-2d4665dfd905", "title": "I had no idea Nigeria had so much off grid energy", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/11/i-had-no-idea-nigeria-had-so-much-off-grid-energy/", "published_at": "2023-11-28T20:49:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd31-2e51-7341-a9a6-2d466646f50c", "title": "Half formed idea: energy gravity and an energy gradient", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/11/half-formed-idea-energy-gravity-and-an-energy-gradient/", "published_at": "2023-11-07T14:43:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd31-2e51-7341-a9a6-2d46666b9920", "title": "How to have a Net Zero target whilst causing as much carbon pollution as possible", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/09/how-to-have-a-net-zero-target-whilst-causing-as-much-carbon-pollution-as-possible/", "published_at": "2023-09-12T15:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd31-2e51-7341-a9a6-2d46668814cd", "title": "How clean does electricity need to get for the European ICT sector to half its emissions by 2030?", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/09/how-clean-does-electricity-need-to-for-the-european-ict-sector-to-half-its-emissions-by-2030/", "published_at": "2023-09-08T08:12:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd31-2e51-7341-a9a6-2d4666b26a40", "title": "A provocative, but fascinating way to think about climate impact in a services or consulting business", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/09/a-procative-way-to-think-about-impact-in-a-services-or-consulting-business/", "published_at": "2023-09-05T15:42:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd31-2e51-7341-a9a6-2d4667105c90", "title": "Comparing what is spent on share buybacks vs the cost of decarbonising the grid", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/07/comparing-what-is-spent-on-share-buybacks-vs-the-cost-of-decarbonising-the-grid/", "published_at": "2023-07-24T08:43:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd31-2e51-7341-a9a6-2d4667d91525", "title": "Options to make software greener without changing the code, and how to remember them", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/07/options-to-make-software-greener-without-changing-the-code-how-to-remember-them/", "published_at": "2023-07-22T10:56:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd31-2e51-7341-a9a6-2d4668a3ebd7", "title": "Trying a thing – a weekly Tab / Brain Dump", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/06/trying-a-thing-a-weekly-tab-brain-dump/", "published_at": "2023-06-19T11:49:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd44-11d3-7397-bb64-fa7e9cb6c258", "title": "Hyperscale datacentre loads as the densest loads on the energy grid – still true?", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/04/hyperscale-datacentre-loads-as-the-densest-loads-on-the-energy-grid-still-true/", "published_at": "2023-04-17T13:11:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd44-11d3-7397-bb64-fa7e9ccc6d69", "title": "Paper notes: Computational parasites and hydropower: A political ecology of Bitcoin mining on the Columbia River", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/02/paper-notes-computational-parasites-and-hydropower-a-political-ecology-of-bitcoin-mining-on-the-columbia-river/", "published_at": "2023-02-12T10:45:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd44-11d3-7397-bb64-fa7e9cfcf7cc", "title": "Useful resources for developers interested in solar", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/01/useful-resources-for-developers-interested-in-solar/", "published_at": "2023-01-08T21:46:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd44-11d3-7397-bb64-fa7e9d0173d0", "title": "TIL: Using Caddy with Django apps instead of Nginx", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/01/til-using-caddy-with-django-apps-instead-of-nginx/", "published_at": "2023-01-06T19:22:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd44-11d3-7397-bb64-fa7e9d0b7a05", "title": "TIL: Gunicorn settings you will actually use", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2023/01/gunicorn-settings-you-will-actually-use/", "published_at": "2023-01-06T15:20:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd44-11d4-739c-a2c4-4e18e2ce726e", "title": "Quick notes before I forget about last mile mobility, community tech and climate", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2022/12/quick-notes-before-i-forget-about-last-mile-mobility-community-tech-and-climate/", "published_at": "2022-12-09T11:48:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd44-11d4-739c-a2c4-4e18e379641b", "title": "Useful context for hydrogen economy convos – a recent keynote by Michael Liebreich on hydrogen", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2022/10/useful-context-for-hydrogen-economy-convos-a-recent-keynote-by-michael-liebreich-on-hydrogen/", "published_at": "2022-10-30T07:31:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd44-11d4-739c-a2c4-4e18e463d83d", "title": "Experiments with remote birthday greetings", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2020/03/experiments-with-remote-birthday-greetings/", "published_at": "2020-03-29T13:40:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd44-11d4-739c-a2c4-4e18e4d7270e", "title": "Getting the bottom of that asinine article about the CO2 footprint of email", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2020/02/getting-the-bottom-of-that-asinine-article-about-the-co2-footprint-of-email/", "published_at": "2020-02-08T16:46:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd44-11d4-739c-a2c4-4e18e59d9513", "title": "Notes from the Future Ethics at UX Book club", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2020/01/notes-from-the-future-ethics-at-ux-book-club/", "published_at": "2020-01-31T15:24:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-4cd3-7297-b2bb-598d0e0f80e7", "title": "Why I spend time working on ClimateAction.tech", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2020/01/why-i-spend-time-working-on-climateaction-tech/", "published_at": "2020-01-20T09:13:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-4cd3-7297-b2bb-598d0e40bbb1", "title": "Quick notes from an EU Green Public Procurement Workshop for Cloud and IT in Brussels", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2019/12/quick-notes-from-an-eu-green-public-procurement-workshop-for-cloud-and-it-in-brussels/", "published_at": "2019-12-04T20:05:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-4cd3-7297-b2bb-598d0f14679d", "title": "How to rate limit punks with nginx", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2019/12/how-to-rate-limit-punks-with-nginx/", "published_at": "2019-12-02T17:05:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-4cd3-7297-b2bb-598d0fe38d2d", "title": "In praise of sea otters", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2019/11/in-praise-of-sea-otters/", "published_at": "2019-11-26T09:47:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-4cd3-7297-b2bb-598d1066b4df", "title": "Two things I wish existed, and would want to make if had lawyer super powers", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2019/11/two-things-i-wish-existed-and-would-want-to-make-if-had-lawyer-super-powers/", "published_at": "2019-11-08T08:50:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-4cd3-7297-b2bb-598d10ad9872", "title": "How to forward requests with proxy_pass in nginx", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2019/10/how-to-forward-requests-with-proxy_pass-in-nginx/", "published_at": "2019-10-31T14:38:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-4cd3-7297-b2bb-598d1186ec48", "title": "Fellowship-it: an idea to get over the last hurdle when applying for funding", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2019/09/fellowship-it-an-idea-to-get-over-the-last-hurdle-when-applying-for-funding/", "published_at": "2019-09-22T14:06:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-4cd3-7297-b2bb-598d119ce985", "title": "How much of our internet infrastructure will be underwater in 15 years?", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2019/07/how-much-of-our-internet-infrastructure-will-be-underwater-in-15-years/", "published_at": "2019-07-27T11:42:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-4cd3-7297-b2bb-598d11e5608b", "title": "Outcomes, goals, objectives", "url": "https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2019/07/outcomes-goals-objectives/", "published_at": "2019-07-06T09:33:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd5b-4cd3-7297-b2bb-598d126d78b7", "title": "Notes as I learn about tuning MySQL", "url": 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2026

Sunday reading notes about electric aviationoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2026
Mind blowing numbers about Finnish datacentre build out from an IRTF Sustainability and the internet workshoporiginal ↗
22 Jul 2026
How could you extend YANG to verify clean electricity claims?original ↗
18 Jul 2026
Understanding the potential of solar & batteries for getting off fossil fuels for electricityoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2026
Running WordPress on SQLite – part 1original ↗
24 Mar 2026
On using solar & batteries to provide 90% of the world population with 90% of their electricity demand for below 90 €/MWhoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2026
How to use GenAI models if you care about the energy they consumeoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2026
If 24/7 clean energy matching is good for the company buying it, is it good for anyone else too?original ↗
28 Jan 2026
Is this EnergyNet thing legit?original ↗
21 Jan 2026
How I think of decarbonising the energy used by datacentres on the gridoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2026

2025

Takeaways, trends and notes from Green IO Paris 2025original ↗
14 Dec 2025
Wow tech firms STILL need to report their revenue from oil and gas sector, even after reporting standards have been ‘simplified’?original ↗
5 Dec 2025
Are the big hyperscalers reporting power consumption in Germany like the laws say they’re supposed to?original ↗
14 Nov 2025
Default to calling it ‘carbon pollution’, not ‘carbon emissions’, when talking about climate changeoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2025
Can you phase out oil and gas in the UK with CFDs at 14 GBP per MWh?original ↗
16 Oct 2025
Even with proprietary GenAI models, you can influence the environmental impact of use through supplier choiceoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2025
Google’s expenditure on AI is eye wateringoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2025
AI the tool vs AI the projectoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2025
What’s the single thing you would do to make a web service more sustainable these days?original ↗
1 Aug 2025
A few notes on the quest for £1/kg H2, and relating it to fossil free datacentresoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2025
Things you forget to ask when doing a podcast about AI power spikes and hardware standardsoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2025
Is the problem just GenAI?original ↗
11 Jun 2025
Is the GHG Protocol including “enabled emissions” in Scope 3 in future?original ↗
4 Jun 2025
Getting my head around power factor when we talk about power usage of the internetoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2025
On conflating different kinds of AI in the climate contextoriginal ↗
21 May 2025
What is the easier to understand way to say “building with cloud primitives?”original ↗
13 Apr 2025
Who is publishing sustainability reports “the right way” in Europe now that we have the CSRD?original ↗
27 Mar 2025
Sustainability *via* tech, vs sustainability *of* techoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2025
Why some people in Virginia get miffed about datacentresoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2025
Some quick notes before diving into the Euro stack reportoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2025
Discovering Doclingoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2025
I’m at FOSDEM 2025original ↗
31 Jan 2025
Will new models like DeepSeek reduce the direct environmental footprint of AI?original ↗
27 Jan 2025
Do tech firms need to report their revenue from the oil and gas sector now?original ↗
25 Jan 2025
2025 is the year that the RE100 change how they recognise green claimsoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2025
Why should there be a WordPress Sustainability Group?original ↗
9 Jan 2025
Where do I find the dates of future public company filings in France and Germany?original ↗
6 Jan 2025
An update on air quality notes at FOSDEMoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2025
Parking an idea – WNDR, for Web Native Dynamic Renderingoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2025

2024

How I use LLMs – neat tricks with Simon’s `llm` tooloriginal ↗
30 Dec 2024
What’s the air quality like in rooms at FOSDEM?original ↗
29 Dec 2024
The wagtail project template I wish existedoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2024
A helpful way to think about how text editors are designedoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2024
You should try Pad Kra Paooriginal ↗
28 Dec 2024
Some notes from reading about the UK’s plan for clean power by 2030original ↗
14 Dec 2024
How much of their energy do various countries use on datacentres?original ↗
10 Dec 2024
TIL: Using consul-template to test local rendering of template files before using them in Nomad jobsoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2024
TIL: Searching shell history in Atuinoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2024
Revisiting H2-powered datacentresoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2024
Is the UK using loads of gas on the grid or not?original ↗
6 Oct 2024
Why talk about monopoly in the context of climate change?original ↗
2 Oct 2024
Fixing a stricken iPad mini 6th genoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2024
Does the EU AI Act really call for tracking inference as well as training in AI models?original ↗
25 Aug 2024
TIL: training small models can be more energy intensive than training large modelsoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2024
Emily Atkins on the vilfying the fossil fuel industryoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2024
How do I track the direct environmental impact of my own inference and training when working with AI?original ↗
16 Aug 2024
Making sense of the energy reporting deadlines for datacentres in Europeoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2024
What makes the web different from the internet?original ↗
9 Jul 2024
Being in the Green Driving Foundationoriginal ↗
30 May 2024
What I want from a mobile provider in 2024original ↗
14 May 2024
If you want greener energy, what’s the best way to get it?original ↗
12 May 2024
TIL: Keeping your hair when upgrading Django 3.2 behind a Caddy serveroriginal ↗
6 May 2024
Notes on the Deutschland ticketoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2024
What gets to be called green online?original ↗
30 Jan 2024
Why we should be intentional about the mental models we use for thinking when we think about digital sustainabilityoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2024
Hydrogen datacentres – is this legit?original ↗
17 Jan 2024
How much power do hyperscalers use, and how much would it cost to go fossil-free 24 / 7 ?original ↗
10 Jan 2024
A new Californian law on offsets goes a long way to making them more transparentoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2024
Listening notes: zero carbon cement on the Volts podcastoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2024
Fixed broadband growth is slowing downoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2024

2023

2023 in Revieworiginal ↗
31 Dec 2023
TIL: buildpacks can rebase to save needless compute workoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2023
I had no idea Nigeria had so much off grid energyoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2023
Half formed idea: energy gravity and an energy gradientoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2023
How to have a Net Zero target whilst causing as much carbon pollution as possibleoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2023
How clean does electricity need to get for the European ICT sector to half its emissions by 2030?original ↗
8 Sept 2023
A provocative, but fascinating way to think about climate impact in a services or consulting businessoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2023
Comparing what is spent on share buybacks vs the cost of decarbonising the gridoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2023
Options to make software greener without changing the code, and how to remember themoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2023
Trying a thing – a weekly Tab / Brain Dumporiginal ↗
19 Jun 2023
Hyperscale datacentre loads as the densest loads on the energy grid – still true?original ↗
17 Apr 2023
Paper notes: Computational parasites and hydropower: A political ecology of Bitcoin mining on the Columbia Riveroriginal ↗
12 Feb 2023
Useful resources for developers interested in solaroriginal ↗
8 Jan 2023
TIL: Using Caddy with Django apps instead of Nginxoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2023
TIL: Gunicorn settings you will actually useoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2023

2022

Quick notes before I forget about last mile mobility, community tech and climateoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2022
Useful context for hydrogen economy convos – a recent keynote by Michael Liebreich on hydrogenoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2022

2020

Experiments with remote birthday greetingsoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2020
Getting the bottom of that asinine article about the CO2 footprint of emailoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2020
Notes from the Future Ethics at UX Book cluboriginal ↗
31 Jan 2020
Why I spend time working on ClimateAction.techoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2020

2019

Quick notes from an EU Green Public Procurement Workshop for Cloud and IT in Brusselsoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2019
How to rate limit punks with nginxoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2019
In praise of sea ottersoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2019
Two things I wish existed, and would want to make if had lawyer super powersoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2019
How to forward requests with proxy_pass in nginxoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2019
Fellowship-it: an idea to get over the last hurdle when applying for fundingoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2019
How much of our internet infrastructure will be underwater in 15 years?original ↗
27 Jul 2019
Outcomes, goals, objectivesoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2019
Notes as I learn about tuning MySQLoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2019
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