Re:Clean code won't save the planet
by zinekeller on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:01PM
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I am in severe disagreement of this, since it does not calculate the effect of running the website on the device. It seems that the author has forgotten the impact of an autoplaying video on phones or laptops, or the execution of JS in the browser, or worse using GPU just for rendering your "pixel-perfect" news website without reason (which by the way I've encountered nearly every day). If it is a website that is visited very rarely, sure, pass. But even with 100 visitors every day, it does start to trickle down.
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Indeed, if the magnitude of the action is greater then it is more important. I’m not sure how accurate the authors estimate is, but my feeling is that even accounting for client devices, we’re talking about a vanishingly small proportion of global emissions, with the possible exception of the very largest tech companies. Though it depends on what the actual emissions value is, which I can’t say that I know.