energy – Bionic Teaching

Reclaim Open “Your website is a slow, bloated, carbon-belching monstrosity” presentation details

Posted on June 8, 2023 (June 8, 2023) by Tom Woodward

This was a 15 minute presentation at Reclaim Open. I botched the timing because I didn’t put in enough timed practice. I would have been better off reading the blog post that generated the presentation and led to the creation of this page for our environmentally-focused Digital Detox. Why work on energy-efficient websites? I wanted […]

Detox Site – Energy-conscious website breakdown

Posted on January 19, 2022 (January 19, 2022) by Tom Woodward

Screenshot of the carbon rating saying "Uh oh! This web page is dirtier than 99% of web pages tested."

The following is what I wrote for this year’s DLINQ Digital Detox. It was strange writing without footnotes. It’s also a lot less of my normal writing voice. I was writing for a bunch of strangers rather than you, my dear readers.1 It’s easy to use the web without thinking about it much. Modern processors, […]