Everyday Data Science
In this interactive course, you’ll participate in my life stories, and learn data science tricks for optimizing your day-to-day life. You’ll make the perfect glass of lemonade using Thompson sampling. You’ll lose weight with differential equations. And you might just qualify for the Olympics with a bit of statistics!
Sustainable Systems: Architectural Choices & Sustainability
In continuing the Sustainable Systems series, Anne Currie focuses on architectural choices and sustainability and offers points for those who want to be carbon aware and follow principles of green software engineering in practice.
« Si notre smartphone avait une conscience, est-ce qu’on le remplacerait aussi facilement ? »
Trois questions à Julia Jean et Lucie Robert, respectivement directrice créative et designer en cheffe au sein du studio Naraven Games. Leur jeu vidéo BACKFIREWALL_, bientôt disponible sur ordinateur et console, raconte l’histoire d’un système d’exploitation refusant d’être mis à jour.
JavaScript SDK “Package Size is Massive” - So we reduced it by 29%
Developers started to notice just how big our JavaScript package was and yeah, we knew. We weren’t ignoring the issues; after all, we don’t want the Sentry package to be the cause of a slowdown. But to reduce our JavaScript SDK package size effectively we had to account for shipping new capabilities, like being able to manage the health of a release and performance monitoring, while maintaining a manageable bundle size. After all, new features == bigger package - usually.
Whose idea was carbon footprinting?
In my book, Sustainable Web Design, I tell the story of how the junk food industry addressed the growing problem of litter in the 1970’s. As companies such as Coca-Cola increasingly promoted products sold in disposable packaging, towns and cities became cursed by litter on their streets. In one of the greatest public relations successes of modern history, these companies banded together to launch a campaign to convince the public that the litter on the streets was not the fault of the companies whose logos were printed on it, but of the ordinary people who had dropped it. They founded a puppet environmental organisation called
