#sustyweb — Public Fediverse posts

The slides from my first talk from earlier today at #OSSummit can be found below. Building a SolarPunk Web: Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future

#SolarPunk #OpenSource #ClimateTech #WebSustainability #SustyWeb

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dE7trZ1wT725o6UJuWxbO7PNMbkXqyr3Q5DDUmQHfsY/edit?slide=id.gde6e9fa718_0_3#slide=id.gde6e9fa718_0_3

The 2024 Web Almanac has some interesting reading on web sustainability: https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/sustainability#a-quick-note-on-assessing-environmental-impacts

It’s well worth looking beyond the charts and reading the detailed paragraphs — as noted, charts can’t tell the whole story when it comes to things like emissions originating from device use and “green” web hosting #WebSustainability #SustyWeb

Good episode of Environment Variables podcast with Gaël Duez (Green IO) discussing measuring AI’s carbon emissions, the transparency (or not) of corporations’ carbon accounting and impact reports, and much more 💚

https://podcast.greensoftware.foundation/e/vn55ll5n-green-software-with-gael-amongst-the-whales #SustyWeb

Great to see the Green Web Foundation is reviewing the evidence they accept for green hosting verification. Trying to find genuinely green web hosting is currently frustratingly opaque, as I’ve written before. It will be good to have greater clarity and transparency around this. https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/reviewing-the-evidence-we-accept-for-green-hosting-verification/ #SustyWeb

Super interesting episode of the Environment Variables podcast featuring Hannah Smith and Marketa Benisek talking about how they put together the latest edition of Branch, and the common themes that came up in submissions, particularly around building a sustainable and humane web https://podcast.greensoftware.foundation/e/183myzw8-community-publishing-and-greening-software #WebSustainability #SustyWeb

There's a large overlap between the sustainable web and web performance, so I wrote "5 tips for creating speedier, more sustainable websites with Fastly": https://www.fastly.com/blog/5-tips-for-creating-speedier-more-sustainable-websites-with-fastly
#webPerf #sustyweb

I love that the Web Sustainability Guidelines provide the guidelines in JSON format https://github.com/w3c/sustyweb/blob/main/guidelines.json so I can transform parts of it to fit my needs
#sustyweb

Myself and @fershad were interviewed by IEEE Spectrum about the COP28 website: https://spectrum.ieee.org/internet-carbon-emissions 😃 It’s really cool seeing other publications pick this up, outside of our #SustyWeb bubble

Some observations on the COP28 website https://css-irl.info/greenwashing-and-the-cop28-website/ #sustyweb #webdev

Happy to share the launch of the new Draft Web Sustainability Guidelines from the W3C SustyWeb Community Group. This is a big step forward to allow teams to build websites which have a lower impact on our planet.

https://www.w3.org/community/sustyweb/2023/09/07/web-sustainability-guidelines/

#SustyWeb #WebSustainability #GreenWeb

@simonstl these are neat. Good ideas for #SustyWeb & Sustainable Web Manifesto.

Interested in learning about web sustainability? New online course starts in December.

https://www.sparkblue.org/CODES/event/coming-soon-online-course-digital4sustainability-unep-and-un-system-staff-college

#SustyWeb #WebDevelopment #sustainability

Would love thoughts on how to improve the #SVG social media icons here (aside from deleting the Twitter link) https://codepen.io/mgifford-the-typescripter/pen/zYjygjL?editors=1100

We really need to make it easier for people to control social media icons and style them to meet their site. This really should be easy, accessible and susainable.

#SustyWeb #a11y #SocialMedia

It looks like a lot of organizations are going to need to update their #SocialMedia icons, so I decided to put up a few which include #mastodon.

My goal is to produce #SVG images that respect dark mode, can be easily styled with CSS, and also allow either circle, square or no background.

I want to embed best practices of accessibility, and web sustainability in this.

So what can I do to improve these?

https://codepen.io/mgifford-the-typescripter/pen/zYjygjL?editors=1100

#a11y #SustyWeb #DarkMode

According to the Green Web Foudnation https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/

and the Website Carbon Calculator https://www.websitecarbon.com/

Mastodon.social is hosted on a server that is powered by green energy & for anonymous users, the landing page is cleaner than
55% of web pages tested.

Good job!

#SustyWeb #GreenHosting #SustainableWeb #Sustainability #GreenWeb #WebDevelopment #GreenSocialMedia