2020 May

• May 27 - My submission for the UKRI Sustainable Digital Society workshop
• May 23 - Notes from reading a recent backgrounder piece in Ars about batteries and the grid

2020 March

• Mar 29 - Experiments with remote birthday greetings

2020 February

• Feb 08 - Getting the bottom of that asinine article about the CO2 footprint of email

2020 January

• Jan 31 - Notes from the Future Ethics at UX Book club
• Jan 20 - Why I spend time working on ClimateAction.tech

2019 December

• Dec 04 - Quick notes from an EU Green Public Procurement Workshop for Cloud and IT in Brussels
• Dec 02 - How to rate limit punks with nginx

2019 November

• Nov 26 - In praise of sea otters
• Nov 08 - Two things I wish existed, and would want to make if had lawyer super powers

2019 October

• Oct 31 - How to forward requests with proxy_pass in nginx

2019 September

• Sep 22 - Fellowship-it: an idea to get over the last hurdle when applying for funding

2019 July

• Jul 27 - How much of our internet infrastructure will be underwater in 15 years?
• Jul 06 - Outcomes, goals, objectives
• Jul 04 - Notes as I learn about tuning MySQL

2019 June

• Jun 13 - Creating norms in tech, and the climate crisis
• Jun 13 - Are there open sourced sustainable travel policies online?
• Jun 12 - Chatting about sustainable web on the W3C sustainable web list

2019 May

• May 24 - Is data about renewable credits openly licensed and available?
• May 11 - Things you could ask if meeting policy makers, if you wanted a greener internet
• May 03 - Trying out an indieweb RSVP

2019 March

• Mar 31 - Week notes #5
• Mar 22 - Thinking through a follow up to OMGDPR, but for climate
• Mar 17 - Weeknotes #3 - a minor breakthrough
• Mar 10 - Weeknotes #2 - a return to health
• Mar 04 - A quick summary of my understanding of software licensing and IP, when it comes to building digital products
• Mar 03 - Trying it one more time - weeknotes #1

2019 January

• Jan 01 - Wonkery on aviation and the frequent flyer levy

2018 December

• Dec 31 - 2018 in Review

2018 November

• Nov 22 - Trying a test run of a sustainable product design workshop on Nov 29th in Berlin
• Nov 20 - Looking for info on carbon emissions by activity

2018 October

• Oct 19 - Looking for playtesters for "Beyond Climate Wedges" a educational game about climate change policy

2018 September

• Sep 19 - A question about using docker to make contributing to OSS projects easier
• Sep 16 - A mail I sent to other climate curious tech folks at an event in Factory Berlin

2018 August

• Aug 20 - Powering small to medium size tech companies on renewable power
• Aug 18 - The pleasing mapping between Sam Ladners three states and Myddletons' three types of research
• Aug 17 - How much would you need to pay per year to have an ad-free twitter?
• Aug 16 - Computing, Climate change and all your relationships
• Aug 16 - Losing earth and capitalism and the NY times
• Aug 01 - Things I recently learned about greening aviation

2018 July

• Jul 30 - Debugging in python with pdb and dropping into a 'proper' session

2018 May

• May 31 - Trying out a sustainability focussed lean coffee in Berlin
• May 28 - Quick notes from the UX Book Club Berlin
• May 27 - How much CO2 can you save when you remove ad-tracking from news sites?
• May 25 - My talk about a planet friendly web at DataNatives in Berlin last night
• May 15 - How much of the web runs on renewables today?
• May 02 - I'm hosting the Mozilla Global Sprints in Berlin in May - come along!

2018 April

• Apr 10 - ResearchOps in Berlin
• Apr 06 - Dear Developer, go read "Dear Developer"
• Apr 05 - OMGDPR is live - ZOMG
• Apr 02 - Book review - My Product Management Toolkit

2018 March

• Mar 28 - How to start out with user research on a product, when you don't have much buy-in yet
• Mar 17 - Please help me name this product triangle thing
• Mar 13 - Writing up IotMark, part 2 of 2
• Mar 13 - Writing up IoTmark - 1 of 2
• Mar 08 - Sustainability of the web vs through the web
• Mar 08 - An update on OMGDPR - explaining the format
• Mar 08 - Explaining a planet friendly web in 10 minutes

2018 February

• Feb 22 - My first experience with Liberating Structures Labs
• Feb 21 - Trying an idea - OMGDPR, a GPDR-themed event in Berlin
• Feb 20 - Amazon and passwordless login UX

2018 January

• Jan 17 - Notes on #NoEstimates in Berlin
• Jan 13 - Visualising the wiki holes you fall down with Pilgrim
• Jan 10 - How much CO2 does an office worker generate per year?
• Jan 09 - Recap - storing state in a browser for users
• Jan 08 - Super hand tip - search your own tabs in Firefox
• Jan 08 - Book review: Time is Money - The business Value of Web Performance

2017 December

• Dec 28 - Sporadic video recommendation # 3 - Yulia Startsev, on side effects, promise and generators in javascript
• Dec 05 - This is not news but Mozilla's Developer Docs site is fantastic

2017 November

• Nov 01 - Does peer to peer matched funding exist online?

2017 October

• Oct 03 - An update on election Hackday and the goals of WhoTargets.me

2017 September

• Sep 17 - On fairphone, and sustainable electronics
• Sep 14 - Trying out a vision statement for the Planet Friendly Web Guide
• Sep 13 - Joining the Mozilla Open Leadership programme
• Sep 04 - So, we ended up at a democracy themed hackday thing

2017 August

• Aug 23 - Notes as I learn more about the German political scene
• Aug 16 - What if BPB ran service like whotargets.me for Germany?
• Aug 15 - Coming across the Pacman rule
• Aug 05 - Worth a watch - Clean Architecture in Python

2017 July

• Jul 30 - Testing formats for planet friendly web workshops

2017 June

• Jun 10 - Planet friendly web development with Python - a transcript

2017 May

• May 11 - How to search better with Atom
• May 08 - Reviewing the options for setting up a small website, and ending up with WordPress
• May 05 - Handy snippets - Python without the .pyc cruft
• May 03 - Value Chain Mapping by example with Growing Communities
• May 02 - Ganzeer. My new favourite writer

2017 April

• Apr 30 - Starting over

2015 November

• Nov 11 - Finding a green webhost for your next project

2014 July

• Jul 23 - Warning about a Google Docs Phishing Attack

2014 June

• Jun 08 - How to update Boxen on your mac with changes from upstream

2014 May

• May 31 - How I use Twilio to forward phone calls for me into the internet
• May 30 - Mostly settled in Berlin

2014 March

• Mar 16 - Looking for a place to live in Berlin
• Mar 16 - Farewell Blighty, hallo Berlin!

2013 September

• Sep 29 - WhatsApp and App.net on why they don't sell ads

2013 June

• Jun 15 - Connboxes, project looking glass, and ambient videopresence in 2013

2013 May

• May 27 - Letting unsuccessful features live on in stagnation is far more insidious than ripping off the bandaid…

2013 February

• Feb 22 - Ways to make money around open data
• Feb 21 - UX Thursdays #1 - Nudging people away from landfill at the London Olympics
• Feb 21 - Introducing UX Thursdays

2013 January

• Jan 20 - When the cloud is like a box of apples

2012 December

• Dec 27 - Ted Nyman on remote working
• Dec 23 - Trying out Sketch App
• Dec 13 - the smallest, quickest thing you can do to test a vision
• Dec 11 - How are you supposed to exercise when your wrist is in a cast?
• Dec 08 - Coming across the TACT model for midata
• Dec 07 - Divestment from fossil fuels as a campaigning issue
• Dec 02 - "I never drew a cloud: I preferred to the draw the earth/ground symbol"

2012 November

• Nov 26 - A couple of handy tricks when linking to youtube videos
• Nov 25 - Betting against the creation of Google, and open data

2012 October

• Oct 28 - Migrating from synchronous rails, to async node – part three of a three part guide
• Oct 28 - Migrating from synchronous rails, to async node – part two of a three part guide
• Oct 28 - Migrating from synchronous rails, to async node - part one of a three part guide
• Oct 27 - Transparency is better when it's frequent
• Oct 21 - Understanding `make`
• Oct 07 - 98% of every dollar made by spotify goes on paying music royalties
• Oct 06 - Dave Winer on thinks Twitter is dying
• Oct 04 - Clay Shirky on Git and Society

2012 September

• Sep 17 - My talk at Cleanweb Ignite
• Sep 13 - Killing creativity with Six Sigma

2012 July

• Jul 30 - Dalton on why slow growth is desirable,
• Jul 08 - A step by step by step guide to fixing a hacked wordpress site

2012 June

• Jun 27 - Opening up Skype with webRTC

2012 April

• Apr 08 - This 3D printed iPhone cupholder dock was designed inside a browser

2012 March

• Mar 17 - Two weeks of development with Firefox instead of Chrome
• Mar 11 - On the Kony Campaign

2012 February

• Feb 19 - Layering privacy onto Facebook pages
• Feb 19 - CodeSchool is really rather good
• Feb 18 - Interesting follow up from the Path privacy debacle
• Feb 09 - How to screw up in public and recover.
• Feb 08 - On using Helvetica for small text when making apps
• Feb 06 - Firefox is worth using again
• Feb 06 - Quick tip with Markdown and oEmbed
• Feb 06 - Finally, a use for these absurd ski boots
• Feb 05 - Macroblogging
• Feb 03 - Taking a second look at Etherpad

2012 January

• Jan 23 - So if Fossil Fuels are sub-prime, what SHOULD the FTSE look like?

2011 December

• Dec 29 - Making Foursquare's Radar less creepy
• Dec 14 - Louis C.K. on Piracy and bootlegging in the wake of his standup release
• Dec 12 - Charlie Stross on travel in the 21st century compared to 100 odd years ago

2011 November

• Nov 22 - Exec pay vs average pay growth over 30 years.
• Nov 13 - Tom Morris - Why you need less interactivity
• Nov 13 - Choice passage about Berlusconi's departure

2011 September

• Sep 18 - Joining AMEE tomorrow
• Sep 04 - On Dconstruct

2011 July

• Jul 23 - Playing chicken with spotlight on a fanless macbook

2011 June

• Jun 26 - Bitten by Tao and Gingko when working with Open Atrium

2011 May

• May 02 - Quick note working with child themes and Wordpress
• May 02 - Making development in PHP less painful with logging

2011 March

• Mar 14 - One of the joys of being on the Vagrant mailing list
• Mar 12 - Vim and line height
• Mar 12 - Starting to blog again

2011 January

• Jan 16 - How to use get Git, Things and Dropbox to work together

2010 September

• Sep 19 - Discovering the jQuery data method
• Sep 12 - How I am debugging Drupal Views

2010 August

• Aug 24 - How to tame Jive's backup happy nature
• Aug 14 - There's no need to type your password when you restart Apache, really...
• Aug 10 - How to get back into Drupal site if you've locked yourself out
• Aug 08 - Quick heads up on a super handy cheat sheet for Drupal
• Aug 08 - How to setup Snow Leopard for LAMP development and debugging
• Aug 01 - Switching iPhone contracts

2010 July

• Jul 16 - Looking for the best way to keep data on servers safe

2010 June

• Jun 19 - Why it's worth volunteering for medical science
• Jun 09 - The quickest way into Wordpress when you're locked out.
• Jun 01 - Nerdy Vim tip ahoy! How to save a file as the root user from inside Vim

2010 May

• May 24 - Making sense of Rewritemaps in Apache
• May 23 - Discovering the Walrus
• May 23 - The ForkBomb Tattoo
• May 21 - RVM and Textmate in harmony
• May 18 - Enjoying BankSimple's rhetoric
• May 18 - The phone tariff that should exist, but doesn't
• May 17 - Tar is not zip
• May 16 - How to fix a Wordpress site when the database corrupts on you.
• May 16 - Not quite sure what I'm doing with this site
• May 11 - Making the Wordpress source code something you'd want to read
• May 10 - Avoiding that Face Palm moment with Logrotate
• May 10 - Setting up a CentOS base box for development and testing with Vagrant
• May 09 - After reading this, I think I'll let someone else work on Solaris boxes in future
• May 08 - Slideshare's UI guys are really rather good.
• May 07 - Notes on Chef - Understanding Resources and Providers
• May 05 - Going beyond typing cap deploy
• May 04 - Poking around the Capistrano gem binary,
• May 04 - Making arrays with ruby, without those pesky commas
• May 01 - Painful times ahead
• May 01 - On blogging as a way to work out what you're thinking

2010 February

• Feb 08 - Trying a month of 8hrs sleep a night

2009 August

• Aug 06 - Virtual servers and false alarms

2009 July

• Jul 30 - Setting environments with Rails: how Rake and Capistrano differ
• Jul 25 - Setting up wordpress to update itself
• Jul 25 - Fixing old gits
• Jul 12 - Money is fertilizer, companies are soil
• Jul 08 - Looking for a green host - concluding the search

2009 June

• Jun 20 - On the new Star Trek movie

2009 May

• May 03 - Frustrating and Cryptic Ruby Idioms (#1 of a series)

2009 April

• Apr 28 - How to set up a debugger with mod_rails/Passenger
• Apr 27 - Letter loungin'
• Apr 24 - Tea, Arduino and Dynamic Demand

2009 March

• Mar 24 - Happy Ada Day!

2009 February

• Feb 11 - Looking for a green host #2
• Feb 03 - Looking for a green host.
• Feb 02 - On computer games and pushups

2009 January

• Jan 28 - SockMonkeys and um, ...things that rhyme with sock monkeys
• Jan 13 - Tinkering at the windmill
• Jan 09 - My latest reason for wanting to scoop IE7's eyes out with a sharpened spoon.
• Jan 04 - Renaming stuff with Ruby
• Jan 03 - Understanding the appeal of baking
• Jan 02 - There is life after the cloud

2008 December

• Dec 24 - A brief primer on using ssh

2008 November

• Nov 20 - Rebooting

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