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Incarcerated people say contraband phones can improve lives, despite the risks.

Ever since I realized BASIC wasn’t the only living programming language, I thought about writing my own. Who wouldn’t? If you’re a developer, surely this idea popped into your mind at some point. N…

Can a Chicken Nugget run Doom?

This is a list of all the media currently in the collection, by approximate date by which it could be considered to have become obsolete. For lists of when media were introduced, visit the audio…

Une addiction qui tue de plus en plus : la dépendance au smartphone détruit le psychisme des adolescents de la même façon qu’une drogue. Les contre-mesures existent, mais elles se heurtent au cynisme des plateformes, dont le modèle économique impose une surconsommation de ces services.

UX friends, please streak with caution! A look at how we want streaks to work versus how they actually work.

Énergivores et imposants, les data centers sont pourtant libres de s’installer où ils veulent. Lier planification énergétique et urbaine devient urgent pour freiner leur essor, soutient l’auteur de cette tribune. Daniel Rousseaux est urbaniste, spécialiste en participation citoyenne et intéressé par les questions d’environnement. Derrière l’image sobre et bleutée des serveurs ronronnant dans les centres de données (« data centers ») se cachent de véritables usines électriques. Chaque fois que vous (...)

On entend beaucoup de choses sur la typographie et l’accessibilité. Idées reçues ou réalité ? Ou n’est-ce pas plus complexe que ça ? Quelques liens pour

Quel est l’impact d’un mauvais choix typographique en accessibilité ? Quelles sont les typos les plus recommandées ?

Existing models for website carbon emissions are good for reaching a ballpark figure of website CO2 emissions. This post goes into some ways to generate more specific, accurate emissions estimates.

The ultimate guide to how caching works in WordPress. Full page cache, object cache, transients and all the tips you ned to use caching the right way.

It's been 20 years since the CAN-SPAM Act. In this post, Mightybytes explores what we can realistically do about spam now and in the future.

Learn how to take responsibility for and meaningful action on your digital carbon footprint in this post from Mightybytes.

On entend souvent dire que les plugins ralentissent WordPress. Est-ce un mythe ou la réalité? Voyez la réponse détaillée.

We worked with Sunday Citizen to improve their key performance metrics and were able to achieve 25% improvement in Largest Contentful Paint and 61% in Cumulative Layout Shift at the 75th percentile. This resulted in 4% decrease in bounce rate and over 6% increase in conversion. Web performance is often overlooked as a

For a beta, ChatGPT isn't all that bad at writing fairly decent malware.

.eco has been certified to meet the requirements of carbon neutrality under PAS 2060

Arrêtez de blâmer le transport aérien pour le réchauffement climatique : il est souvent moins polluant que la voiture à distances équivalentes...

La loi française sur l’accessibilité du Web est une transposition de la Directive européenne Accessibilité Web. Or, parmi les obligations issues de cette Directive, un rapport devait être publié avant le 23 décembre 2021. 25 des 27 États concernés avaient fait leur rapport, à l’exception de la France et Chypre. Avec 1 an de retard, […]

The first enterprise-scale implementation of carbon-aware computing using the software carbon intensity (SCI) specification and carbon-aware-sdk is capable of avoiding multiple metric tons of CO2eq from entering the atmosphere -- every year.

If you feel somewhat restricted by the flexibility of layouts provided by WordPress themes, you might be interested in building your WordPress webpages with a page builder plugin. WordPress page builders have become wildly popular because they let anyone, even those without the gift of code, build a beautiful website or landing page using a […]

Slow WordPress plugins impact the performance of your site. Here is a list of known slow plugins, and the better alternatives.

Less is often more when it comes to both infosec and eco-friendly computing practices

How might we enable sustainable grocery shopping choices using behavioural UX?

With a digital sustainability approach, businesses can not only reduce emissions but also improve the performance of digital channels with relative ease.

The subject of Web resource caching is as old as the World Wide Web itself. However, I’d like to offer an as-exhaustive-as-possible catalog of how one can improve performance by caching. Web resource caching can happen in two different places: client-side - on the browser and server-side. This post is dedicated to the former; the next post will focus on the latter. Caching 101 The idea behind caching is simple: if a resource is a time- or resource-consuming to compute, do it once and st