Pluralistic: 15 Aug 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Coder Survival Guide
Color and Contrast.com
Color & Contrast is an interactive guide to color for designers.
The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance
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.
Revealed: The climate cost of 'disposable smartphones'
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.
How to measure your design system?
Why measuring your design system is more important than you think, and why measuring sooner rather than later is imperative.
Use image CDNs to optimize images
Image CDNs are excellent at optimizing images. Switching to an image CDN can yield a 40–80% savings in image bytes.
Halve the size of images by optimising for high density displays
Why compressing images for dense screens is different, and how to serve them
Lou Montulli and the invention of cookie | Hidden Heroes
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.
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!
The man who made the “worst” video game in history - The Hustle
Howard Scott Warshaw’s video game was blamed for single-handedly sinking a multibillion-dollar market. But the true story is more complicated.
One small step for earth
Small steps you can take to support the climate fight.
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.
Operational Choices in Sustainable Architecture | GSF
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.
Tradeoff Between Server Utilization and Energy Efficiency
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.
Software Carbon Intensity: Crafting a Standard | GSF
The Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard gives an actionable approach to software designers, developers and deployers to measure the carbon impacts of their systems.
« 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.
How-to: Use Firefox for accessibility testing - The A11Y Project
Firefox has become one of the best tools for accessibility audits. Let’s go over Firefox’s accessibility features that you can use today.
Luxury retailer Farfetch sees higher conversion rates for better Core Web Vitals
How luxury retailer Farfetch's investment in improving Core Web Vitals led to better business outcomes.
Michael Hladky - CSS Rendering Performance
Modern CSS rendering performance: The internals of web pages optimization In this talk, we demystify the browser’s rendering pipeline and explore the differe...
Accessible Social
Learn how to create social media content that is accessible to people with disabilities.
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.
Urgence Climatique, Justice Sociale & numérique responsable
Parce que trop souvent les problématiques environnementales sont isolées des problématiques sociales au sein des organisations et des débats, réaffirmer l’inextricabilité de ces enjeux est essentiel.
Powerful Image Optimization Tools — Smashing Magazine
Optimizing the size of images can have a bigger impact on performance than all other areas combined. In this article, Louis Lazaris covers different tools available for reducing the size of images.
Pop-ups are dead, long live pop-ups: or, the bait-and-switch hidden in today’s cookie announcement – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
How to Prioritize Digital Accessibility and Sustainability
Learn why digital accessibility is key for both usability and sustainability when designing digital products and services.
Digital Sustainability: How to Get Started Today
Learn how to get started implementing digital sustainability today in this post from Chicago digital agency Mightybytes.
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
Les chaînes Youtube indispensables sur l'environnement et le climat
Après les meilleures sources à lire sur le climat et l’environnement, il était temps de faire une liste des meilleures chaines Youtube !
Les livres incontournables sur l'Environnement et le Climat
Une centaine de livres ont d'abord été présélectionnés, avant de finalement n'en garder qu'une trentaine. Pour écrémer, n'ont été retenus...
Les meilleures sources sur l'Environnement et le Climat, tous niveaux confondus !
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