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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · 16d

Some non-coffee places:
- Kappabashi Dougugai for kitchen gear shopping (it's a whole street of shops).
- Misojyu at Asakusa (rice balls, get there early, expect a line).
- Udon Yamacho Ebisu (v good udon, expect a line)
- Kiyosumi-shirakawa (nice area to wander - parks, museums, boutique cafes)

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · 16d

Little Nap is an awesome place for beverage!!~

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · 17d

I hope Grant Atkins get the GF

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Pierre-Yves Baubry 博磊 @pybaubry.bsky.social · 20d

Information on how to donate for disaster relief in Hualien County, Taiwan.

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Foreigners in Taiwan 🇹🇼 外國人在台灣 @foreignersintw.bsky.social · 21d

Flooding in Guangfu Township of Hualien yesterday, due torrential rains in the wake of Typhoon Ragasa #樺加沙, caused the Mataian River to burst its banks and flood the town. Two people have died during the disaster. Ppl

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · 22d

Take care @nicmakesstuff.bsky.social . Hopefully it loses some steam by the time it reaches HK.

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · 24d

Help 🙏🥺
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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · 24d

Help 🙏🥺
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Taiwan Maps and Dataviz @alexkunztaipei.com · Sep 15

Taiwan relies on imports for about 96% of its energy (2023).
This map highlights the main suppliers of fossil fuels used for power generation:
Australia: 50% of coal, 40% of gas
Qatar: 28% of gas
United States: 27% of gas, 9% of oil
Saudi Arabia: 31% of crude oil
Indonesia: 25% of coal

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · Sep 14

Show me a better sport than Rugby League!

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · Sep 13

Okay, good. We get the chance to end the dynasty next week.

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · Aug 29

Dud calls 🤝 The Wahs

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · Sep 4

Curious about estimating digital emissions?

Want to understand what future laws require you and your organisation to report?

Have extra training budget to use before year's out?

You should probably join our digital emissions estimates workshop 😉.

Next one's Sept 16

greenweb.org/services/est...

Estimating Digital Carbon Emissions workshop - Green Web Foundation

Need to learn how digital carbon measurement works? Sign up to our workshops to get a grounding in the basics from the experts!

greenweb.org

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · Sep 5

Draw it.
drawafish.com

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Taiwan Maps and Dataviz @alexkunztaipei.com · Sep 5

This was one of my first maps, made it about a year ago. And it’s still one of my favorites.

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Oliver Lindberg @oliverlindberg.com · Sep 4

"A grid-aware website responds to the cleanliness or dirtiness of a user’s electricity grid, i.e. whether it's currently using more renewable energy or fossil fuels."

For more on this, also check out issue 9 of Branch magazine (by the Green Web Foundation): branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue...

Piccalilli @piccalil.li · Aug 28

This is not CSS grid-aware, but energy grid-aware websites. Websites that respond to the “cleanliness” of the user’s local electricity grid. A very interesting read and concept.

www.nicchan.me/blog/explori...

Exploring grid-aware websites - Nic Chan

Could adapting websites to a user's energy grid help make them more sustainable?

www.nicchan.me

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · Sep 4

Curious about estimating digital emissions?

Want to understand what future laws require you and your organisation to report?

Have extra training budget to use before year's out?

You should probably join our digital emissions estimates workshop 😉.

Next one's Sept 16

greenweb.org/services/est...

Estimating Digital Carbon Emissions workshop - Green Web Foundation

Need to learn how digital carbon measurement works? Sign up to our workshops to get a grounding in the basics from the experts!

greenweb.org

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · Sep 3

Cheers Nic~~

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · Sep 2

Cheers Oliver ☺️

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · Sep 2

If you're a frontend developer like me and find yourself regularly wondering about the intersection of data transfer, network energy consumption, and web sustainability, then boy do I have a blog post with a really long title just for you!

itsfi.sh/l/webdev-sus...

Thinking about network sustainability for frontend developers - Fershad Irani

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.

itsfi.sh

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · Sep 1

Bummed for Lando. Stoked for Oscar. Onto the next.

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Mike Ananny @mikeananny.bsky.social · Aug 29

Great point on strategic sneakiness of scale.

The bigger the phenomenon, the smaller the impact any *individual* act seemingly has.

A perfect way to devolve responsibility to individual scales & dismiss individual acts as insignificant.

It’s scale *creators* who have real power & responsibility.

Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · Aug 29

Google's claim that each AI prompt uses the energy of 9 seconds of television is like throwing dispersant over an oil slick.

The only way to get a number that low is with massive scale, which you should definitely worry about. medium.com/@dnafus/why-...

Why Saying “AI Uses the Energy of Nine Seconds of Television” is Like Spraying Dispersant Over an…

TLDR: the smaller the number, the more you should be worried

medium.com

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Fershad Irani @fershad.com · Aug 29

Dud calls 🤝 The Wahs

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · Aug 28

This is not CSS grid-aware, but energy grid-aware websites. Websites that respond to the “cleanliness” of the user’s local electricity grid. A very interesting read and concept.

www.nicchan.me/blog/explori...

Exploring grid-aware websites - Nic Chan

Could adapting websites to a user's energy grid help make them more sustainable?

www.nicchan.me

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Harry Roberts @csswizardry.com · Aug 28

🩺 Obs.js is now OPEN SOURCE! I’d love early feedback and I’ll showcase any of your implementations on the demo page: csswizardry.com/Obs.js/demo/

Obs.js – context-aware web performance for everyone

Obs.js reads device and network signals and allows you to build adaptive user experiences.

csswizardry.com

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