Underengineer Your Websites (with Adrian Roselli) | Some Antics
Oftentimes, the most accessible, interoperable experiences are the ones that require the most minimal engineer — and few know that better than Adrian Roselli...
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.
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.
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.
Modern CSS rendering performance: The internals of web pages optimization In this talk, we demystify the browser’s rendering pipeline and explore the differe...
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.
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.
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
An Accessibility-First Approach To Chart Visual Design — Smashing Magazine
In this article, we will explore how an accessibility-first approach can lead you down the path of creating a better visual design for charts. Throughout the article, you’ll learn to use the Web Content Accessibility Standards and how this approach leadd to an unexpected yet better outcome for everyone.