Climate Change

Learning my local history: 100 years of oil contamination in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

I took an hour to learn the local history about how Greenpoint Brooklyn has been fighting for 100 years to clean up oil contamination by the oil industry. And how it's still fighting today.

Climate Change

Spectacular images, video tell the story of the world's first offshore wind farm

With stunning footage, this mini documentary tells the story of the first offshore wind farm. The project, built in Hywind Scotland, was a great success. It paved the way for a boom of new offshore wind projects.

Decentralization

Meet Skipper: A dead-simple password manager

Skipper is a free, secure web service that will remember your passwords for you. It's so simple that non-techies will use it. But it's also open-source, decentralized, end-to-end-encrypted and other fancy things that only nerds care about, but which are important for everyone.

Climate Change

Underground Pumped Hydroelectric Storage: A Feasibility Study

Over the last few months, I fell down a rabbit hole. I became obsessed with an idea called Underground Pumped Hydroelectric Storage. I started to believe this idea could play a fundamental role in our fight against climate change.

Technology

Your guide for choosing a Content Management System (CMS) in 2019

With so many options, how do you know if you need an integrated CMS, decoupled CMS, or headless CMS? Here a helpful explainer with a list of great options.

Blockchain

The network is the value: An essay about the value of a Bitcoin.

Why does a bitcoin have any value at all? What if this is the wrong question. This essay suggests that the value of a bitcoin is better understood as an emergent property of the bitcoin network. It's the network which is actually valuable. A bitcoin is just the ticket price to use the network.

Green Energy

Can we create the world's largest battery deep below the sea?

We know the ocean can help us generate power through wave and tidal energy. But can it also give us a battery to store energy?

Climate Change

Quitting oil requires energy storage. A lot of it. Here's why the only battery big enough might be water and gravity.

Climate change is on track to wreak havoc unless we curb oil consumption. It turns out that we need more than green energy generation. We also need huge amounts of battery storage. Here's why the only battery big enough might be water and gravity.

Software Development

Give your app a solid foundation: Why web applications need starter kits

A strong building depends on a strong foundation. A robust web application has similar needs. A good starter kit can save you time and keep your app healthy over time.

Decentralization

Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, & Dapps: Why billions of dollars are chasing after a technological shift as big as the internet

Around the world, thousands of projects that you’ve never heard of are racing to build the foundation of a technological revolution.

The Dear Nation Project - a sneak-preview

Dear Nation is a project demo intended to be a living archive of letters we write to our nation’s leaders.

Accessibility

Project Sonorous: a proposed navigation tool for the visually impaired

Sonorous is a proposed navigation tool for the visually impaired. It enables someone without sight to visualize their surroundings through sound.

BuildSquad: why I think the freelance economy needs a "project network".

Build Squad is a proposed Project Network. It’s like a “LinkedIn for Projects”.

An open source freelancer’s starter guide

Want to start your own Freelance business but don’t know where to start? Here's my new business owner’s todo list.

Brainstorm: Design concept for an elegant wireless light switch

Wireless lighting is starting to go mainstream. Let's not let smartphones ruin the humble lightswitch.

Introducing the Raptorsaurs

Hi. We’re the Raptorsaurs. We’re a community of freelancers and creatives.