Following the LOCO workshop, I have been exploring the intersection between frugal computing and computer systems. Frugal operating systems -- where the energy costs of system calls and other OS components are minimised -- provide a mechanism for improving frugalness throughout an entire system without requiring every application to be rewritten. On paper, this sounds promising, but in reality it is not so simple.

On Tuesday I was in Glasgow to speak at the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing. This was a fascinating workshop bringing together a range of different subject areas within computing to try and address a range of problems relating to low carbon computing -- we focused on breadth rather than depth. I was encouraged to see the range of helpful ideas being pursued, and wanted to highlight a few here.

I recently attended EuroBSDCon 2024 in Dublin, where I spoke about end-system multihoming with ILNP. It was great to meet some new people and hear about other work being done with the BSD network stack -- and was also my first in-person international conference, which was a milestone for me!