Seeing Logic publshed an interesting piece on how different coding patterns can affect the understanding of code. The piece includes eight patterns to improve readability, such as never use GOTOs!
Through in person user testing, the BBC found that 80% of BBC Sounds users turn up the brightness on devices when viewing a dark mode theme. This rebound effect results in more energy being used for dark mode interfaces.
The European Alternatives website lists European tech products across a number of categories such as web hosting, VPNs, website analytics, and email marketing.
James Chudley posted a handy guide on how to go about decarbonising the user journey in software by focussing on reducing the page weight (and carbon footprint) at key user steps within the software's workflow.
The Reengineer describes some real life examples where small coding changes can result in emissions reductions for websites delivered at scale, such as image optimisation on a council's website, or reducing the size of a wordpress plugin used on millions of websites.
The Green Web Foundation published a brilliant blog post about grid aware websites, and how they are building a CDN edge function that allows the delivery of website content to be tailored/reduced based on how clean or not the electricity grid intensity is for the user's location.
The HTTP Archive have published this year's Web Almanac, which includes an interesting chapter on sustainability, and covers topics such as page weight, sustainable hosting, optimisation, and the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG).
