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I built carbon ledger to make it easy for companies to build climate-conscious applications using their payments data. There's currently an explosion in fintech, climate-tech and SaaS companies who are adding climate features to their apps and Carbon Ledger will power these: Carbon neutral credit cards, Automated Scope 3 emissions calculations, Subscription offset programs and Other planet-friendly ideas!

My goal with Carbon Ledger is to make it easy to launch these features so they can drive behaviour change and educate consumers about climate change. Carbon Ledger brings a developer-friendly API and research-backed methodology to market so teams can focus on their users!

The actual backend is done in Rails and I built everything myself on top of that.

Feel free to email me at brandon [at] carboninterface [dot] com

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Carbon Interface is an API to generate carbon emissions estimates. Right now my API can calculate emissions for flights, driving, shipping and electricity generation.

In addition to making the estimates more robust, I am working on having the algorithms behind the estimates certified by international bodies to increase the trust of my API.

I made Carbon Interface to support the development of other fun project's I've been working on that require c02 estimates for common emitting activities. I decided to turn this into a service because other people in the industry asked to use this API for their projects.

Excited to hear your feedback and answer any questions!

We’re looking for a senior developer that can navigate our whole stack which includes: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Salesforce, Heroku, and PostgreSQL.

We’re a hardworking and enthusiastic team building Canada’s first peer to peer lending marketplace. Working at Lending Loop will keep you on your toes and will push your problem solving abilities every day. Lending Loop offers a fast-paced work environment with a focus on execution, small wins and having fun.

For more information, please visit http://www.lendingloop.ca/careers

Contact: [email protected]

We’re looking for a senior developer that can navigate our whole stack which includes: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Salesforce, Heroku, and PostgreSQL.

We’re a hardworking and enthusiastic team building Canada’s first peer to peer lending marketplace. Working at Lending Loop will keep you on your toes and will push your problem solving abilities every day. Lending Loop offers a fast-paced work environment with a focus on execution, small wins and having fun.

For more information, please visit http://www.lendingloop.ca/careers

Contact: [email protected]

I would like to see these devices progress to more of a band form factor with a wider and curved display to fit the contour of our wrist.

1.Manufacturers began to 'get it'. Computers began to look cool, no more beige boxes and lame looking side panels. With the birth of Aleinware, the Dell XPS and Falcon Northwest came a huge blow to the modding community. Instead of spending days modding your PC to make it look cool and perform well, you could buy one out of the box (sometimes even overclocked)! This started to eat away at the modding culture. Even console makers stepped their game up in terms of connectivity. They began to provide more codecs for video playback which was one of the main reasons to mod a console- to allow video playback.

2. Another thing happened which pulled me and others away from the modding/hacking community- I bought a Mac. Ever since I moved into the Apple ecosystem I haven't opened up a piece of hardware. I bought my first Macbook when I was 16 and loved it. It worked, it did everything I needed it to. I moved more into the less horsepower social game landscape where I didn't need the heavy duty processing power. Once I was in the Apple ecosystem I didn't need a home NAS server running with my torrents, I began buying my music, movies and TV shows. This content then streamed on my devices (Apple TV and mobile) perfectly. It required no hacking to work, it all came together effortlessly. I feel like this is happening to a lot of hackers. I deep down feel Apple has made people complacent with current technology and has really created a lack of need to hack your hardware and software.

This begs a question, has the paradigm shifted from enthusiasts pushing the envelope with hardware and software to the technology companies?

My first two years were mainly split between economics and finance/accounting. To be honest (not sure if this is the case at most schools) but the material we learn is absolute junk. Unless you want a designation in accounting or law, you've gotta question schools' value prop to you. It blows my mind I don't have the guts to leave(lack of conviction I guess).

Many kids will say "I goto school for business" which may be true by title. But in the real world, it's the "Business of X'. If you want to get into internet firms and work on their business end, you need to know the product side of things as well. Sometimes I regret taking my major mainly because I think it makes more sense to get a degree in engineering(or something technical) then get your MBA (if you're academic) or just experience business in the real world.

Regardless what you take, everything will always work out, and even though you may learn junk quality material, things will stick that will come up in random conversations and will provide some value. However, maybe not 100k in value.

Goodluck man