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Software engineer. Sustainability champion. Community builder. Diversity harnesser. Design thinker architecting impact through tech, research and social action.
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Powering Distributed Computing On Renewable Energy
Lessons from Bitcoin
Fact check: Is Bitcoin catastrophic, insignificant or a strong net positive for the environment?
In their extreme positions, all three of these assessments are misleading, and all three contain some nuggets of truth. Bitcoin is the most visible example of hyberbolic claims both for and against, especially in the environmental arena. So what is ...
Looking back on 10 years of the Adora Foundation
Fact check: How Big Is WordPress?
Is it actually "powering 40% of the web" and "over 455 million sites"?
How big is the Worldwide Web (and where do the numbers come from)?
A look under the hood
Green Software and Hardware Obsolescence
Our software is virtual, can seem abstract but it is at the heart of social injustices, armed conflicts, and a pollution epidemic poisoning soil, waters, children. Software, with all its wonderful conveniences and indulgences, drives the manufacture...
Could AsyncApi Make A Dent on Climate Change?
Can an API specification really change the world? It may at first sight seem like linking an emergent API specification to the biggest existential challenge of our time would be like asking whether a new format for restaurant menus might impact on th...
2. Green Mode Design: Implementation Strategies
In the second of the Green Mode Design series, I will move from the general design concept outlined in Part 1 to a first proposal on how it may be implemented by the four key constituencies: devs, consumers, browser vendors, and web standards/specifi...