Eco Worriers: Saving the Planet, One Unoptimized Website at a Time
Web sustainability performance checking
(tags: sustainability green web http optimization performance ad-blocking gwf)
The #1 bug predictor is not technical, it’s organizational complexity (August Lilleaas’ blog)
Organizational Complexity. Measures number of developers working on the module, number of ex-developers that used to work on the module but no longer does, how big a fraction of the organization as a whole that works or has worked on the module, the distance in the organization between the developer and the decision maker, etc.
(tags: culture management programming organisations bureaucracy bugs quality)
Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy – The New York Times
‘We identified people at political rallies and protests, in one case from 2016 we saw a Seattle-based Microsoft employee take a day off and visit Amazon’s campus…when we found him on LinkedIn in 2019 he was an Amazon employee. Turns out his phone had given away his job interview. In recent months we’ve spoken with people we’ve found in the data. Their reaction is surprising — a blend of contradictory emotions like outrage and apathy. We don’t have the language to talk about this stuff. And part of the reason is…we adopted this tech so fast. A big takeaway from my experience with this reporting: This is the decade we were brainwashed into surveilling ourselves. In just over 10 years we were sold a future of personalization and convenience and paid for it with little pieces of ourselves that we can never get back.’
(tags: technology privacy surveillance phones mobile location location-tracking tracking geo)