Concentrated power prefers opacity. I build products that don't. Right now that means Republik Magazine, one of Europe's few digital magazines owned by the readers it serves, not advertisers - where I serve as CTO and Deputy Executive Director.
Previously I co-founded Electricity Maps, making grid carbon intensity readable at a moment when data centers were just starting to act on it, and founded Queer Coding Camp, because access to technical fluency is not evenly distributed and that bothers me.
Most news products fail. And most do so very unspectacularly. They die quietly in the background, and we move on too quickly. However, a “failed” launch isn’t a dead end; it’s data.
Cheap labour and rare earths: the Fairphone promises to be more socially and ecologically responsible than the models made by Apple or Samsung. A reality check.
Many people are deleting WhatsApp and moving to Telegram, Threema, and the like, where their data is better protected. Wonderful! But really, it's time to turn the entire world of messaging upside down.