Can you meaningfully measure how environmentally friendly a website is?


Website carbon results for: shkspr.mobi/blog Hurrah! This web page achieves a carbon rating of A. This is cleaner than 82 % of all web pages globally

Think global; act local. That's the mantra, right? I can't stop coal plants belching out suffocating pollutants, but can I ensure my website is as environmentally friendly as possible? There are several services which claim to be able to detect just how lean, green, and clean your website is. But, in my opinion, they're all a bit inadequate. WebsiteCarbon The WebsiteCarbon.com service gives me …

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Should your phone be a webserver?


Screenshot of a Symbian mobile phone asking "Opening a secure connection. Yes or No?"

I really like this article from Rohan D "Every Phone Should Be Able to Run Personal Website". In it, they make the convincing case that phones are perfectly capable of hosting websites and - if we want more people to escape the walled-gardens - this could be a good way to get people back into self-hosting. I loved hosting a small site on my Nokia N95 back in the day, and I'd be overjoyed if…

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How I got my username on (nearly) every site


An error message on Flickr's edit name screen.

I go by "edent" on most websites. It's short, relates to my real name, and is usually unique. I quite often sign up to things just to snag the name. But there have been a couple of sites where someone else has got there first and started using "my" name. I don't own the trademark, nor have any special rights to that name. So I wanted to document how I recovered it on a few prominent sites. …

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