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Friday, December 13, 2024

In This Edition:
2024 Web Almanac & sustainability, grid aware websites, code changes that reduce emissions at scale, attitudes to climate change study, the ladder of inference!

Leading up to Christmas every year, I ask all the lovely authors that I have interviewed throughout the year on SmartThinkingBooks.com for a book that they are looking forward to giving or receiving. You can read all the book recommendations from the authors in the part I, part II, and part III posts, in case you are in need of any Christmas gift ideas!

2024 Web Almanac & Sustainability

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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).

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HTTP Archive Web Almanac
Environment Web Dev
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Grid Aware Websites

Image:The Green Web Foundation

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.

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The Green Web Foundation
Environment Web Dev
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Code Changes That Reduce Emissions At Scale

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.

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The Reengineer
Environment Web Dev
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Attitutes To Climate Change Using A Person-Centered Framework

Image: EPA

The EPA published a fascinating review of climate attitudes conducted by researchers at DCU. The work reviewed 4610 studies on climate attitudes, which were then filtered down to 66 studies that were analysed using the Bronfenbrenner person-centred bioecological systems model. The results show that trust in institutions and the beliefs of one's social circle influence one's attitudes to climate change. The review also suggests that purely fact-based climate communication will not work with everyone.

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EPA
Environment Life Motivation
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The Ladder of Inference

Image: Sources of Insight

J.D. Meier published a useful post on Sources of Insight about being aware of ladder of inference can help avoid cognitive bias in decision making.

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Sources of Insight
Business Life
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About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in Liverpool. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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