Weeknotes: 13 January to 17 January 2025

What I have found gripping

• There is a book about green software engineering providing practical ideas: Green Software Engineering: Exploring Green Technology for Sustainable IT Solutions by Santiago Fontanarrosa

• Effective testing with RSpec 3: The book’s friendly tone makes for an engaging reading and learning experience

• Communities matter more than ever and softwares supporting them too

• Learning in community is important though one also needs to be clear about how they want to learn. In my view, the more diverse the community, the better it is for learning from different perspectives and ways of working

What I have read

• Building Green Software with Anne Currie and Sara Bergman, InfoQ

• The cost of bandwidth: What’s in a byte? Sophia Willows

• Five steps can help estimate software emissions during the system design phase using LLMs, Srinivasan Rakhunathan & Naveen Balani

• The Importance of Scopes in Ruby on Rails, Jason Charnes

• Trigger warning: Remembering Vicky Teinaki, Imran Hussain

• Trigger warning: Noah Gibbs: Mentor, Friend, Ally, Brandon Weaver

This week I’m including two people who have influenced my journey: Vicky and Noah. They both shared their knowledge generously. I’m thankful for having had the chance to learn from them too. My thoughts are with their families, friends, and everyone in the professional communities they were part of.

What I have watched

The principles of green software - How green is your application? Sara Bergman

Featured quote

What we are proposing is hard; adopting green software principles and patterns of working is not an easy choice. — Green Software Foundation

Further reading and resources

In English

• Our theory of change – defining the strategy for the GSF, Green Software Foundation
  

In French

• BDX I/O 2024 - CodeCarbon : Comment mesurer l’impact CO2 du Machine Learning, Amine Saboni et Inigo Imaz Chacon

May 2025 be for you a year of wholesomeness and memorable moments.