Listened to this interview with the CEO and founder of Ecosia. Unfortunately the interview is not available in English, but here is a transcript of the description. I’m definitely switching to Ecosia as my main search engine where possible now.

Fun fact: Ecosia is the biggest European search engine. The search results are provided by Bing, which is a Microsoft product. The company has plans to be carbon negative by the end of the decade:

By 2030 Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by 2050 Microsoft will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975.

This list is inspired by Brett Terpstra’s Web Excursions. I’ll try to keep a journal of interesting things for future reference here.

• I enjoyed this episode of Pragmatic with Merlin Mann about procastination: I’ll Do The Procrastination Episode Tomorrow.
• NetNewsWire for iOS is in beta, check it out: NetNewsWire 5 for iOS Public TestFlight.
• I’m not good at reading books so I’m giving audio books another try. I started with Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
• Rings is a simple iOS game that I play while listening to audio books and podcasts. I can’t remember where I found it.
• scanlime/fadecandy is an “easy to use open source hardware to drive WS2811 LEDs with high-quality color”. This can easily drive a matelight and many other cool RGB LED things.
• Secret playing jenga, Secret is an Australian Shepherd.