Coder Survival Guide

Depuis de nombreuses années, les professionnels des NTIC essayent d’anticiper le prochain iPhone : une innovation majeure capable de reconfigurer le marché (ex : l’iPad ou l’Apple…

Invest in inflation. It’s the only thing going up. That was a joke made around a century ago by actor and Mayor of Beverly Hills, Will Rogers. It seems just as appropriate now as everyone is feeling things getting more expensive. Food, energy, clothes, books, holidays, houses, cars, education. You name it and it’s going up in price.

A project to self host a website in Sweden using solar power, battery storage and a Raspberry Pi. Low tech homelab solution.

Brands like Heineken, Nestlé, and Toyota are in the early stages of figuring out how to reduce the emissions their digital advertising produces.

Did you know that there are energy efficient color palettes? Colors you can save battery life with. It is true! At least when your user’s device is an OLED display.

Tools and techniques I use for manual accessibility testing.

Driving changes for better loading of third-party resources on the web

August 22, 2022: FTC’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) is live as of today. You can share your public comments at Trade Regulation Rule on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security until Friday, October 21, 2022. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on August 11, 2022 announced it is exploring rules…

When it comes to disability, a lot of ableist language and tropes are perpetuated by the media. Here's what experts have to say about how to talk about disability.

Learn how to design systems at scale and prepare for system design interviews - karanpratapsingh/system-design: Learn how to design systems at scale and prepare for system design interviews

Chicago digital agency Mightybytes breaks down digital emissions sources and outlines a plan of action you can take to reduce them.

Find out what the browser preload scanner is, how it helps performance, and how you can stay out of its way.

Oftentimes, the most accessible, interoperable experiences are the ones that require the most minimal engineer — and few know that better than Adrian Roselli...

Color & Contrast is an interactive guide to color for designers.

In this blog post, we explain the technical details of removing the jQuery library from GOV.UK’s public facing applications and the performance impact it had for our users.

Extending the lifespan of smartphones and other electronics by just one year would save the EU as much carbon emissions as taking 2 million cars off the roads annually, a new study finds.

Why measuring your design system is more important than you think, and why measuring sooner rather than later is imperative.

Image CDNs are excellent at optimizing images. Switching to an image CDN can yield a 40–80% savings in image bytes.

Why compressing images for dense screens is different, and how to serve them

In 1994, Lou Montulli wrote a snippet of code that introduced a new way of sharing identity on the Web—the cookie. Read the story behind its inventor.

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!

Howard Scott Warshaw’s video game was blamed for single-handedly sinking a multibillion-dollar market. But the true story is more complicated.

Small steps you can take to support the climate fight.

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.

In the second article in the Sustainable Systems series, Anne Currie focuses on operational choices you can make to improve how your software is run.

What should you monitor as you try to increase the hardware efficiency of software? To find out, read this first article by Srinivasan Rakhunathan in the Sustainable Systems column.