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As a bit of a side quest for work, I've been digging into the idea of a tech stack that's divorced from US big tech companies, with content and data being hosted on European infrastructure. That's not something I've really thought about before. To be honest, there's already a lot for developers to think about when putting together a project, and now digital sovereignty has been thrown into the…
Last year I attended TPAC 2025 in Kobe. A big part of my time there was spent in conversations about the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSGs) with members of the Sustainable Web Interest Group who were there in person and online. Through these conversations, it became apparent that the guidelines were lacking a means for people to assess their impact. At the time, there were over 80 guidelines,…
I recently learnt about the closure of CarbonRunner , a service that aimed to enable running of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) in the cleanest available region (in terms of grid carbon intensity). The idea behind CarbonRunner was a sensible one - location shifting the running of automated workloads to the cleanest available location should result in a lower carbon impact…
I understand this might be a bit late for a year in review. We've had a lot of Touch stuff going on here in Taipei for the last couple of weeks, and tonight is my first chance to sit down with the cat and get this written. 2025 was a year on the go, with (mostly work related) travel throughout the year. It was also a year of catching up with old friends from Taiwan in their new homes overseas, and…
Lol these monthly posts are consistently getting done later in the month. At least that's consistent, right? November 2025 🇯🇵 TPAC 2025 in Kobe, Japan . Having spent 3 weeks in Japan through October, I was back again in the second week of November for the W3C's annual TPAC gathering. It was a terrific experience, though was completely draining at the same time. Besides all the peopleing at the…
This morning I wrote about how back in 2014/15 we almost had power profiling land in the Chromium DevTools . Tonight, I've created a new issue feature request on crbug.com with the hope that it can get the ball rolling on getting power profiling into the Chromium DevTools within some timeframe that isn't tomorrow but also isn't never. Check it out at [Feature request] Power profiling to surface…
One of the things I learnt at TPAC 2025 is that the Chromium Issue Tracker (also known as "CRBUG") is a thing. More than just being a thing, it is (as the name might suggest) the place where you can raise bugs and issues you might encounter in Chromium browsers. Beyond that, it's also a place where ideas for new Chromium features can be raised, triaged, and tracked. Chromium is the open source…
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of attending the W3C's annual TPAC meeting. TPAC? TPAC is something I've heard about a lot through my time as a web developer as a place where folks gather to nerd out over web standards. It is a five day event, with a mix of detailed working/community/interest group meetings and breakout sessions for idea sharing. TPAC 2025 TPAC 2025 was held in Kobe, Japan…
A suppppper late monthly this time around due to a very busy first few weeks of November squeezed in around a few bouts of sickness. October 2025 🇯🇵 3 amazing weeks in Japan . For Kay and I, October was our big break month in 2025. We ventured to Japan, partly in order to meet up with my sister and her husband who were traveling there at around the same time. We met them for a day in Kyoto…
I'm really excited to be heading to Kobe, Japan next month for the W3C's annual TPAC conference. I'll be there as an individual invited expert, and am looking forwards to meeting some of the folks working in the Sustainable Web Interest Group in person. I'm also hopeful that my introvertedness won't get in the way of me having conversations with folks working across other W3C working groups,…