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Some web dev goodness to kick off.
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This guide from Piccalili offers an in-depth insight into making your site look and read better through simple changes to your site’s typography.
It’s a low carbon way of making your site look great.
If you’ve seen a drop in organic traffic to your site recently you are not alone. We spoke to SEO experts Propellernet to find out what is causing this (spoiler alert it might be Google and AI) and how to take action.
“ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It’s Hobbling Future AI Development”.
A powerful article from Futurism on the impact that AI slop is having on the veracity and value of internet content.
While the level of slop is concerning it’s heartening to see organisations taking action. Cloudflare is blocking AI crawlers by default and introducing measures to have AI companies pay organisations to access their pages. How effective they can be will be interesting but it’s the first counter punch thrown against the access all areas’s badges AI crawlers act like they have.
HT to Matt Tutt for sharing this with me.
The Green Web Foundation are calling for AI development to be kept within planetary boundaries and no fossil fuels usage in tech stacks.
These two initiatives are laudable and worth our support.
Looking to take some personal action to reduce your digital carbon footprint? It might be as simple as changing the browser you use…
Big thanks to Graham who reached out to share Tailpipe.ai.
“Tailpipe accurately measures your organization’s carbon emissions from cloud computing, suggesting cost-effective reduction methods without impacting performance. Accurate, granular, comprehensive, timely and transparent, Tailpipe helps save costs and decrease your carbon footprint.”
We love a bit of data visualisation at Wholegrain and we hate climate change.
This site from Climate Central shows that the sweltering temperatures in London on the 1st July were classed as exceptional in this tool. Climate change has made these temperatures 5 times more likely.
Bookmark this site and the next time you see a major news outlet report on extreme weather without mentioning climate change you can fact check in real time.
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