The Sustainable Web, Engineered
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The web doesn't need more features. It needs better foundations.
I believe in this so firmly that I wrote somewhere around 50,000 words about it. Apress published them.
This site is my playground for all the concepts in the book
It starts with what every user actually needs: readable content, clear structure, and fast delivery. It builds up from there based on your device, connection, and preferences.
No assumptions about your hardware, your network, or how much visual richness you actually want.
The preferences panel in the top right is where you take control. Enhancement level, motion, theme, font size. Your choices, stored in your browser, applied on every page load. Click the cog and try it out.
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talk The Web We’re Leaving Behind
There is a whole community of people who have very similar beliefs. And who spent years defining what good looks like.
How we should build a Web that actually works. For everyone. Without waste.
I am honored to be a co-chair of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group, the community behind the Web Sustainability Guidelines.
93 guidelines describing exactly that. What responsible, sustainable web development looks like across every layer of the stack, from infrastructure to front-end delivery to content.
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As you may imagine, W3C guidelines are not the easiest read ever
They are primarily written for regulators and auditors. Editors work hard to make them accessible to everyone. At this point, what they are doing is pure magic.
Every person who shapes those guidelines is a practitioner first. Real projects, real teams, years of making decisions under pressure. All of that knowledge is already in the document. It just has to be written the way standards have to be written.
So I took the key points and put them in my own words. With examples, context, and stories from a decade of building for the web.