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
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What I'm listening to
It's been a while since I did one of these "what I'm listening to" posts. Since the last one, a bunch of things have changed: I've gotten deeply into climate work for volunteerism (so podcast skew really…
Last Gas(p)
It's been over 20 months since we had to buy gasoline, because in Sept 2024, we traded in our 12 year old Subaru Outback for a Kia EV9. The Backstory We bought the Outback in October 2012. We needed something a big…
Batteries in the Hudson Valley
I firmly believe that Batteries are probably the closest thing to a silver bullet when it comes to our clean energy future. They are going to be the things that let us deploy a lot of solar, and use it through the night.…
Writings
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I for one, welcome our cat equality overlords
As seen at at the Meteor last night with my friend Saibu.
From the Archive: When will then be now? Soon.
Time is fascinating. Maybe it's because I entered the field right before Y2K, but how we've taught computers to deal with time has been an area of interest for much of my career. Over a decade ago I gave a talk at HVOpen…
Site migration
A quick update. After years on Wordpress I took the time, with some code assistant tools, to migrate the site out into a static hosting. I only bothered to migrate posts that had seen some reasonable traffic in the last…