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 →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.…
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…
Writings
All writings →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…
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…
Summer Gazpacho
I learned to love gazpacho when working summers at the Warren Store in the Deli. Before that, the idea of cold soup was completely unknown to me. There we'd make gazpacho 5 gallons at a time, and it would go pretty…