Weeknotes: 1 September to 5 September 2025

What I have found gripping

• There is still value in content curation at a time when search engines may not often lead to relevant results

• A codebase that has had a wide range of contributors will take some time to get acquainted with

• Taking small steps to gather feedback on new content and considering other ways to present it. Thankful for the folks who have offered their feedback until now

• Services in a Rails application can help keep it maintainable and testable

• Context still matters, whether it influences how a team documents a project or how folks are thinking about a given technical concept. The meaning of words might even differ greatly from one context to another

• Solving technical problems collaboratively is wonderful

What I have read

• Aiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiai, Dorota Parad

• ChatGPT only talks in cliches – here’s why that’s a threat to human creativity, Vittorio Tantucci

• Green software methodologies: turning sustainability into measurable business value, Ville Nordberg

• Exploring grid-aware websites, Nic Chan

• The One-Woman Dev Team Diaries #205, Nadia Odunayo

• Why inclusive products are green products, Ela Gorla

• Titles matter, Josh Collinsworth

• Rails Service Objects: A small guide to speed up your code, Andres Chacon

• Newsletter WoR #65: un nouveau framework JS, l'IA qui écrit ton ticket JIRA, une meilleure expérience de recrutement..., Women on Rails

• La musique ne vous fait ni chaud ni froid ? Cela pourrait être dû au fonctionnement de votre cerveau, Catherine Loveday

• Qui était Joséphine d’Yquem, pionnière dans l'industrie du vin ? GEO

• Designing a Grid-Aware Branch, Hannah Smith, Fershad Irani and Tom Jarrett

• How to harness the ocean for prosperity: funding African innovations can unlock the blue economy, Nomtha Hadi

What I have watched

Interview with Paola E. Annis, Engineering Manager at Microsoft and Green Software Expert

Featured quote

Branch‘s initial design set out to creatively explore how we could link a digital experience to the realities of the physical world. We experimented with reflecting the fossil-fuel powered pieces of the physical infrastructure of the internet and introduced Sustainable Interaction Design Principles in Branch’s inaugural issue. — Hannah Smith, Fershad Irani and Tom Jarrett

Further reading and resources

In English

• A web component for grid-aware websites, Fershad Irani

• Ocean currents can generate electricity – and our study shows Africa’s seas have some of the strongest, James H. VanZwieten Jr., Gabriel Alsenas, Mahsan Sadoughipour, Yufei Tang

In French

• Six prérequis pour une IA responsable, Julien Wilhelm

• Joséphine d’Yquem : femme entrepreneure du XIXᵉ siècle à l’origine d’un vin de légende, Christel de Lassus