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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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