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Being able to capture the on device power use of a website is a really important step towards making forward progress in web sustainability. Firefox has it, and it looks like Chrome almost did too.

A look back at my first TPAC. TL;DR A 10 out of 10 experience.

Sure data transfer does not equal network energy use. Yes, but there is still a way for frontend developers to influence network energy consumption by reducing data transfer.

This post introduces the Grid-aware Status Bar web component which we built to complement a recent redesign of our Branch magazine website.

After taking a year off, I'm back reviewing this year's COP30 website and finding some familiar patterns.

This blog post aims to flesh out some of my own thoughts on the metrics we use for web sustainability, with a particular focus on carbon emissions and energy use.

Some thoughts on Sam Altman's recent post "The Gentle Singularity".

This post introduces the Green Web Tracker, an open source website to track the green hosting of domains.

I've been doing plenty of thinking about grid-aware "things" recently. In this post, I'll share some initial ideas of how grid-awareness could be applied to an online CMS.

This post aims to give a visual representation of what changes on this website when grid-aware changes are applied.

This post covers the technical steps I've taken to make this website respond to a visitor's energy grid. It also touches on the design changes that happen as a result, and the performance and energy impacts of those changes.

Between travel, Touch footy, more travel, some conferences, and a bunch of cool stuff for work, life in 2024 was pretty, good. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.