Manufacturers should design electronics to last – not for the dump. http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-electronics/ (Video from 2011, still just as relevant now.)
Progressive alliance seems like the best hope of averting another 5 years of the Conservatives on June 8th. Is it feasible?
The Green Party election broadcast for the upcoming local government elections flags the refugee crisis, NHS, inequality, climate change, lack of investment in renewables, as key issues. Important issues, but not really issues that local government has much say over? I also would like the video to focus a little more on the very positive and progressive policies that the Greens have, rather than just saying what is currently wrong. But maybe that doesn’t fit so well into a short election broadcast.
A big of a long-off goal with the indieweb BDD specs, would be for it to be a generic way to automate how many of the features of indieweb a site had implemented. Kind of an automated IndieMark. But really, just something to give you an idea of which features you could choose to implement, and which ones you’ve already implemented successfully. It should of course be implementation agnostic – it’s just testing functionality after all (the point of BDD).
Why do BDD with my site? It’s mostly as excuse to play around and learn about a few different things – indieweb, BDD, codeception. I’m also a big fan of the BDD approach, forcing you to think about why you’re implementing something, what’s the value, before you go ahead and implement it. Plus, regression tests FTW.
Started working on BDD specs for my site. Using codeception – very impressed with it so far, quite a mature BDD tool. After all the initial faffing around with setup, I’m at a point where I have a Gherkin spec that navigates to a page, checks for some content, and takes a screenshot.
Out of date software means usable hardware provides a second rate experience, with reduced features, limited app compatibility and security vulnerabilities.
Software plays a big part in perceived obsolescence of devices.
demonstrating how companies can adapt software, hardware and business models for a circular economy. They show the changes companies could make, which parts of the supply chain might benefit most and which consumers are likely to be most receptive.
Three types of intervention that can be made – hardware, software, and business model.
This report shows how companies across the mobile electronics supply chain can adopt a circular economy model to make money out of old devices, attract new customers around the world, increase brand loyalty, and cut manufacturing costs and risks. Doing so would also help to cut electronic waste, carbon emissions and resource use.
The report seems quite business-focused. The intended reader seems to be businesses? The environmental and social benefits seem to be presented as a side benefit.
Really impressed by spacemacs so far. I started out with Emacs back in the day. Switched to Vim at some point. Spent the last 7 years or so using Visual Studio with the fantastic VsVim plugin. After a while I began to see Vim more as a great set of keybindings, not so much as a program to proselytise in its own right. Most text editors will have a Vim keybindings plugin. Now, after moving to new work and away from the Microsoft stack, Spacemacs is seeming like a great system – very very thorough Vim bindings support, but with a very powerful and well-though out system underneath that.