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In this post, I want to continue building out an incremental model, but rather than focusing on emissions calculations I want to create a model to estimate energy use.

The cost of finding and fixing defects in incredibly higher in production as compared to early stages of development — often by an order of magnitude or two.

More than 272 million new laptops are manufactured every year, making the IT industry responsible for as much greenhouse gas pollution as the entire airline industry. This equates to the IT industry contributing 2% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.  Internet usage continues to rise, with more people using mobiles and tablets in their everyday … What Is The Carbon Footprint Of A Laptop? Read More »

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Acteurs indépendants œuvrant depuis des années pour un numérique éthique, inclusif et éco-responsable.

L'opposition entre les protocoles rigoureux de l'aéronautique et les pratiques plus fluides des entreprises tech montrent comment équilibrer efficacité et créativité en fonction du contexte.

Generative AI (Gen-AI) represents a major growth potential for the digital industry, a new stage in digital transformation through its many applications. Unfortunately, by accelerating the growth of digital technology, Gen-AI is contributing to the significant and multiple environmental damage caused by its sector. The question of the sustainability of IT must include this new technology and its applications, by measuring its environmental impact. To best respond to this challenge, we propose various ways of improving the measurement of Gen-AI's environmental impact. Whether using life-cycle analysis methods or direct measurement experiments, we illustrate our methods by studying Stable Diffusion a Gen-AI image generation available as a service. By calculating the full environmental costs of this Gen-AI service from end to end, we broaden our view of the impact of these technologies. We show that Gen-AI, as a service, generates an impact through the use of numerous user terminals and networks. We also show that decarbonizing the sources of electricity for these services will not be enough to solve the problem of their sustainability, due to their consumption of energy and rare metals. This consumption will inevitably raise the question of feasibility in a world of finite resources. We therefore propose our methodology as a means of measuring the impact of Gen-AI in advance. Such estimates will provide valuable data for discussing the sustainability or otherwise of Gen-AI solutions in a more transparent and comprehensive way. We intend to help this discussion by differentiating in our approach between the embodied and operational impacts of Gen-AI. In this way, we can consider the sustainability of models, as we already do for equipment.

Using Umbraco Delivery API, NextJS's Static Site Generation, and uSync, to create an ultra-low energy Umbraco website

The LEGO home page is lean and quick to start render, but it still suffers from a slow Largest Contentful Paint time. Here are some quick fixes.

We rank industry-leading websites based on how fast their pages appear to load, from a user’s perspective.

I’m having a lot of fun building small, static web apps. And there are certain principles I’m trying to stick to as I do it. Let’s see what they are… What is a manifesto anyway? As I started writing this, I asked myself: “Is this actually a manifesto? What is a manifesto?” But the definition […]

A curated list of snippets to get Web Performance metrics to use in the browser console or as snippets on Chrome DevTools by Joan León

Dark Patterns are deceptive design tactics, intended to manipulate users into actions they may not have intended, pose a significant ethical

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Sustainability is now a key focus for the digital advertising industry. Last year, it was estimated that a typical ad campaign emitted around 5.4 tons of CO2, with a programmatic ad impression producing around one gram of Co2 emissions. When the number of ad impressions transacted on a regular basis…

We're excited to announce a proposed standard for assessing technology-related carbon emissions – an approach to classifying an organisation's technology footprint in a way that enables consistent analysis and benchmarking of the carbon impact, aligned with the GHG protocol.

Yellow Lab Tools is a free online web performance analyzer. It audits a webpage for performance and front-end quality issues. And it's open-source!

Paul Calvano is a Performance Architect at Etsy, where he helps optimize the performance of their online marketplace.

Tumblr and WordPress are reportedly set to strike deals to sell user data to artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Midjourney. The platforms’ parent company, Automattic, is nearing completion of an agreement to provide data to help train the AI companies’ models.

Towards environmentally sustainable computational science

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Explore memory management, types of memory leaks, and hunting memory leaks in JavaScript using Chrome DevTools.

Les meilleures pratiques en matière de performances web sont consensuelles et largement acceptées, mais comment les valoriser d'un point de vue commercial ?J...

Due to their effects on performance, it's critical to understand how memory leaks in your Node.js apps occur, how to debug them, and how to prevent them.

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Comparing two identically designed websites, their weight, amount of HTML and CSS, rendering speed, and best practices.