I turned 35. 🎂🥳 We celebrated at Bill’s for breakfast while looking over the ocean. Leo picked out a singing Thomas (the train) birthday card for me.
We went to my favorite Starbucks for lunch on Saturday and Leo has progressed to eating an entire tuna-cheese melt. I didn’t think he’d eat it all as he’s only 2.5 and a bit years old, but he did.
Someone should make a site scanner to help you improve the sustainability of your site – analyze images, css, and then give you tips for how to improve it. Doing it all and doing it right would be a large undertaking.
I’ve started thinking about getting solar panels again. It won’t happen this year, but maybe next year or the year after that. In doing research I found this cool site that will, given a postal code, give you estimated solar generation based on the weather from the past 10 years. Using that you can plunk in your usage actual numbers into a spreadsheet and better estimate when they’ll pay for themselves.
Thank you for mentioning my post in your weeknotes! I must say that I like the style of your website. It is somewhat reminiscent of the Low-Tech Magazine site. I like the focus on the text content. That’s something I have tried to do to make my site more sustainable: less fluff, more focus on the text.
I must say that I’ve gone through varying degrees of sustainability. To start, I had a white background on my site. I then started to add color. I now support webmentions. I like to think about sustainability not as a constraint but as a consideration in my design.
I like the idea of creating a tool that gives you tips on how to improve your site. I considered setting up a bsic HTML page with tips on how to build a sustainable site. I’ve never gotten around to it. You could probably get far by summarizing the tips you gave in your article on sustainable web design.
Happy belated birthday! I turn 18 on October 1st – our birthdays are in the same week!
Thank you for the comment :). Good eye, indeed – the current design was heavily inspired by the Low-Tech Magazine website. I hope to tweak it more over time so it’s more distinctly mine, but for now, I’m digging the simplicity.
Sustainability in software, I’m coming to believe, is much like security: a continual process. It’s easy to introduce sustainability (or security) setbacks as requirements change and systems evolve – require a constant consideration.
That’s a good idea about the just starting with a basic HTML page for sustainable web design. Then over-time it could evolve to include different tools, rather than trying to do everything all at once. I’ll have to noodle on that.
@jamesvandyne Happy birthday! Can’t believe in addition to being a Westerner in Japan, you’re also in your mid-30s, born in September and have a toddler-age son. We’ll have to meet up once COVID-19 is behind us 🙂
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Thank you for mentioning my post in your weeknotes! I must say that I like the style of your website. It is somewhat reminiscent of the Low-Tech Magazine site. I like the focus on the text content. That’s something I have tried to do to make my site more sustainable: less fluff, more focus on the text.
I must say that I’ve gone through varying degrees of sustainability. To start, I had a white background on my site. I then started to add color. I now support webmentions. I like to think about sustainability not as a constraint but as a consideration in my design.
I like the idea of creating a tool that gives you tips on how to improve your site. I considered setting up a bsic HTML page with tips on how to build a sustainable site. I’ve never gotten around to it. You could probably get far by summarizing the tips you gave in your article on sustainable web design.
Happy belated birthday! I turn 18 on October 1st – our birthdays are in the same week!
Happy Early Birthday, James! 🎉
Thank you for the comment :). Good eye, indeed – the current design was heavily inspired by the Low-Tech Magazine website. I hope to tweak it more over time so it’s more distinctly mine, but for now, I’m digging the simplicity.
Sustainability in software, I’m coming to believe, is much like security: a continual process. It’s easy to introduce sustainability (or security) setbacks as requirements change and systems evolve – require a constant consideration.
That’s a good idea about the just starting with a basic HTML page for sustainable web design. Then over-time it could evolve to include different tools, rather than trying to do everything all at once. I’ll have to noodle on that.
@jamesvandyne Happy birthday! Can’t believe in addition to being a Westerner in Japan, you’re also in your mid-30s, born in September and have a toddler-age son. We’ll have to meet up once COVID-19 is behind us 🙂
@pyrmont Thank you! Indeed, meeting up sounds like a blast. Probably next…summer🙌🏻
@jamesvandyne Looks that way, doesn’t it? Stay safe!