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Last night, I got an itch in my bones to rip up my personal website again.
The main reason is a trip to DefCon 34; my Mom wants posts and pictures, I might enter a couple of CTF contests and need a place to post writeups, and maybe as something to put on a business card.

A self-hosted website with four posts in six months is better than a twitter feed with four posts in six months, right?

It has come to my attention that Neil Gaiman has slithered out from under the rotten log where he's been hiding to claim he was the subject of a smear job.

He sexually exploited one of his fucking tenants like it was droit de fucking signeur, and frankly, he belongs back under that fucking log.

No.

I use Claude Code and Gemini Code Assist extensively for both my day job and my programming hobby.

It is critically important to note that carbon footprints are notoriously a scam, like to the point where I had considered not engaging with the topic. There are no individual solutions for systemic problems, which is why the people who benefit from systemic problems are so keen on convincing you that there are!

However, I do like to know things, so I did the research anyway! Go figure.

Here is the math I've done.

• electricity generation varies widely by type:
• • wind produces 5 grams of CO2 equivalent (CO2E) emissions per kilowatt hour (kWh) of usage
  • natural gas produces 500 g of CO2E emissions per kWh; I'm using this for my baseline in future estimates.
  • coal produces 1.2 kg; only an actively insane society would continue to use this for power generation.
• electricity usage is measured in tokens per kWh, and is pretty widely guessed from 5-10m tokens per.
• It looks like my heavy Claude Code usage clocks in at 80-100k tokens per hour, let's round up and call that a million a day.

Combined, this would put my consumption at anywhere from 1.0 - 2.5 kg of CO2E per week.

A gas-powered car produces 400g of CO2E per mile driven, so I'm "driving" Claude Code 2.5-~6 miles a week.