It's always more complicated.
I'm Sean Dague — a software architect and climate activist who has spent decades working on open source, software development, and building communities. This is where I write about the things I find interesting.
Climate & Energy
All climate posts →Saving you money with my refigerator
Sean Dague would like to use his refrigerator to lower your energy bills. A few years ago, after buying a fridge, the Dutchess County resident did something few people do: He read the manual. (He’s a software engineer at…
Electric Cars & Labor
There are countless news articles and studies that reiterate the point that electric vehicles “have fewer moving parts” or are “less complex” and therefore pose a threat to autoworkers’ jobs. Many cite a 2017 Ford…
Climate Infrastructure
Thursday I got home at 7:30, and started squaring away a few things. I checked the weather to figure out if I could leave out a package for the mailman the next day, and noticed a giant string of thunder storms to the…
Writings
All writings →Project Chapel
PBS just put up a new documentary on installing the IBM Quantum Computer at RPI. I was very involved with this effort, and helped make it a success. Lots of the folks that are in this documentary are folks I meet with…
Slow AI
Charlie Stross's keynote at the 34th Chaos Communications Congress Leipzig is entitled "Dude, you broke the Future!" and it's an excellent, Strossian look at the future we're barelling towards, best understood…
Syncing Sieve Rules in Fastmail, the hard way
I've been hosting my email over at Fastmail for years, and for the most part the service is great. The company understands privacy , contributes back to open source , and is incredibly reliable. One of the main reasons I…