$ Asim Hussain · engineer · teacher · builder
the edge of chaos
Everything alive balances between too much order and too much chaos. I build for the seam between. read the thesis →
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Harness Engineering 8 min 2026·06 Fuck the Feed 5 min 2026·06 The 4Ds 4 min 2026·06 After five years, I'm stepping down as Executive Director of the Green Software Foundation 8 min 2026·03 What is sustainability? 13 min 2026·02 Don't be an Idiot FFConf 2025·11 The Las Vegas Economy 8 min 2025·09 Guardians of the Edge of Chaos 36 min 2025·02 Tipping the Scales Greening AI with Software Engineering 2025·02 Bogey Dragon 4 min 2025·01 The Times — CTOs get to grips with new software sustainability spec ↗ 2024·10 The Cost-Carbon Paradox - Why Cost Saving !== Carbon Reduction 12 min 2024·09 Doing for Sustainability, What Open Source Did for Software LF OSS 2024 2024·08 Jevons paradox and greening software—why increasing efficiency makes sense 5 min 2024·07 TechTarget — Sustainability efforts grow in IT, but challenges remain ↗ 2024·01 MIT Technology Review — Developing climate solutions with green software ↗ 2023·12 CNN — This project cuts emissions by putting data centers inside wind turbines ↗ 2023·12 Smashing Hour: the Four M's of green software Smashing Magazine 2023·08 TechStrong TV — Exploring Green Software: Sustainability in IT and DevOps – Asim Hussain, Green Software Foundation ↗ 2023·07 FinTech Futures — Go green software – your bonus may depend on it! ↗ 2023·07 My 6-year journey with psychedelic medicine 16 min 2023·06 SDxCentral — Here’s how AI could destroy the planet — and how responsible AI can help ↗ 2023·06 The Telegraph — The industry more damaging to the environment than airlines ↗ 2023·05 Pushing Sustainability Further with Green Software Intel 2023 2023·01 What is the carbon score of your software? Thoughtworks 2022 2022·07 Protocol — How to write a climate plan that doesn’t suck ↗ 2022·03 Green Software Engineering! Cloud Nord 2021 2021·12 Microsoft’s Asim Hussain on Designing Software for Sustainability and the Green Software Foundation QCon London 2021 2021·11 How Microsoft is Leading the Way to Sustainable Software GOTO 2021 2021·06 GreenBiz — The future is climate-friendly software ↗ 2021·06 Axios — Microsoft sets up nonprofit to cut software-related carbon emissions ↗ 2021·05 Bloomberg — Microsoft Teams Up With Accenture, Goldman on Greener Software ↗ 2021·05 What is Green Tech and Green Software Development? Microsoft Refactor 2021 2021·05 Carbon proxies - Measuring the greenness of your application 12 min 2021·05 CAT Salon: Digital Sustainability Part 3 – Green Software Engineering CAT Salon 2021 2021·03 Green Developer Relations DevRel 2021 2021·03 Sustainable Software Engineering, Building Carbon-Efficient Applications GOTO 2020 2020·11 Carbon-Aware vs. Carbon-Efficient Applications 7 min 2020·11 Sustainable software engineering building carbon efficient applications MTG France 2020 2020·10 Do you want to be powered-by renewables? The answer is no. 7 min 2020·08 Two philosophies of Sustainable Software Engineering 3 min 2020·08 Sustainability focussed sessions at Microsoft Build 2020 3 min 2020·05 The New Stack — What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Green Developer’? ↗ 2020·03 Take the Green pill and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes 17 min 2020·02 5 Tips For New Managers 7 min 2019·12 JavaScript Saves The World dotJS 2019 2019·12 How to write a CFP? 5 min 2019·08 I can't do that for you dave: Undefined is not a function LeadDev London 2019·05 The Future of Machine Learning & Javascript ng-conf 2019 2019·04 How to hack an Angular app? ng-conf 2018 2018·11 How to talk good MakingLyst 2018·09 How to scale an SPA? Amsterdam JS 2018 2018·05 Bot Of The United States Code Europe 2017 2017·11 From Donkey to Unicorn, A new approach to AngularJS migration. AngularConnect 2017 2017·06 The AngularJS Migration F.A.Q. AngularUP 2017 2017·05 When you can't use the word “BIG BANG” ng-conf 2017 2017·03 ngRx the last piece in the Angular architecture puzzle NG-NL 2017 2017·02
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