Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call

The Iran war is exposing how much the global economy still depends on fragile fossil fuel supplies. The conflict has virtually choked off the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas. That's shaking up markets and pushing prices higher. Countries reliant on imported fossil fuels — from wealthy industrial economies to poorer developing nations — are facing major disruptions that can quickly ripple through utility bills, food prices, transport costs and electrical grids. Analysts say the crisis is a stark reminder that energy security is not just about stockpiles and shipping, but also about the lagging transition to renewable energy.

Better, Faster, and (Even) More

I've never built more interesting, random, and useless scripts, tools, and services than I have in the last six months. The cost to go from "Random Thought" to

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.

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OPINION: Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home - Bucks County Beacon

Defending it may be one of the most practical and hopeful choices citizens can make, writes Yardley's Stu Faigen.

The Junior Hiring Crisis

AI isn’t replacing everyone. It’s removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.

How when AWS was down, we were not | Authress - Knowledge Base

Nothing can have an unlimited uptime. But even when AWS and other hyperscalers are having incidents, we've created an architecture that is resilient to those outages. Here's how we do it for Authress.

The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshop

Clogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters