Fershad Irani

A massive 2026 for Chinese Taipei Touch Association captured in our Almanac. - First Womens Open team - First Mens Open team - First Masters Division team Looking forward to seeing the association flourish even more in 2027! almanac.chinesetaipeitouch.com/en/

in Taiwan, at least back in 2019, a very common password revealed in Have I Been Pwned data breach reports is ji32k7au4a83 "that seems secure," you might think but it turns out that in the Zhuyin keyboard for inputting Mandarin, this series of keystrokes yields 我的密碼 (wǒ de mìmǎ, "my password")

Quality Grand Finals 🤝🏽 Adam Gee refereeing

That's wild. Rubga leeeeg baby!! How good !

Wrote down a few thoughts about the direction I see website emissions estimation heading over the next 18 months, and some of the models and tools that I know of which are shaping that. These are my reckons, you've probably got yours. Would love to hear them! fershad.com/writing/webs...

Bouncing around over the next few weeks. Traveling with my partner, but hit me up if you're around and want to catch up. Amsterdam Aug 30 - Sept 1 Den Haag/Rotterdam Sept 1 - 4 Lucerne Sept 9 - 10 Zurich Sept 11 - 12 Berlin Sept 14 - 18

Our 💚 friends at the Green Web Foundation have written a case study on how we integrate carbon.txt with .eco profiles: www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/automat... 🙌 to @fershad.com for the post.

🌿 One question we often hear around the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG): what measures will have most impact? A new document, published at W3C today, has impact ratings for each of the success criteria in the WSG: www.w3.org/TR/wsg-ir/

Choosing sustainable hosting infrastructure relies on understanding who's taking energy decarbonisation steps & in which regions. Here's one way @mrchrisadams.net & I hope can represent this nuance, so consumers can make informed decisions on their tech suppliers. fershad.com/writing/deca...

@fastmail.com launching EU hosting for their email service shortly after I worked through the rest of my tech stack is very nice timing. Been using them for years, now I've switched my data region to the EU. fershad.com/writing/euro...

Gone ahead and done myself a side quest. fershad.com/writing/euro...

Lol someone in our work chat mentioned COP31, and I realised I hadn't yet been to the website. IYKYK 😅

Doing some research for some upcoming projects. One requirement is the services/platforms used are not tied US big tech, and ideally are EU based. Anyone have pointers to server-side hosting (SSR sites, API endpoints), email marketing providers, or domain name registrars that might fit the bill?

Through last year, and early this year, I was involved in creating something that might be useful to a few folks. fershad.com/writing/wsg-...

The 2026 State of Devs survey is now open. This survey's goal is to take the pulse of the developer community regarding things like career, workplace issues, and mental and physical health, and I think it's more important than ever right now! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

Given the old film photography website a bit of a tweak over the weekend, and thrown in a handful of images from this year and last as well. film.fershad.com

Japan black and whites. Ilford FP4 might be my new favourite.

The "Taiwan Question" nobody wants to talk about

Getting some film developed from 2025, and pull out these two bangers. - Morning light at Izumo Taisha shrine - Conversation in a Kyoto izakaya

Friends, I'll be in Japan for a few days in May and June. I'd love meet with members of the tech community working on: - Japan's energy transition - The sustainability reporting landscape - How Japan is thinking about data center growth and AI If that's you, or someone you know, get in touch!

Australia is #7 in the world in terms of number of new data centres, between Canada and Japan - Green Web foundation's amazing new 'state of the fossil free internet' report is out now: fossilfree.greenweb.org/2026/

Amazing work from my Green Web Foundation colleagues. ⚡ State of the Fossil-Free Internet ⚡ The report casts light on the opaqueness of climate disclosures made by the internet's largest players, while highlighting three pathways for an internet that serves everyone. fossilfree.greenweb.org/2026/

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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This looks like a great resource! 👉 To find out more about designing and building low-carbon websites, come to @pixelpioneers.co Bristol on 19 June, where @sustainable-dev.bsky.social will talk about exactly that: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

Spending waaaaay more time on Pokemon Pokopia than I anticipated.

DAY TWO OF ME ENDLESSLY PROMOTING SOMETHING I'M PROUD OF Here's a new video summary, focusing on the flimsy evidence behind the claim AI tech will make global emissions plummet by gigatonnes and how similar that is to something you might recognise..... ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

Brb, updating "Are my third parties green?".

'The Wei piece beautifully illustrates a key function of the undefined concept of red lines: they remove agency from Beijing, and place it only on Beijing’s victims.' The Wei piece was an article by Wei Lingling 魏玲靈 in the WSJ about the ongoing PRC-Japan spat. www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

Got that end of year itch to redesign my website.

Chromium. Power profiling. Let's make it happen. fershad.com/notes/chrome...

TPAC 2025. It's taken me over a week to recharge my batteries, but would do it again if there was a chance. fershad.com/writing/refl...

China rarely has a policy that China, Taiwan, and Japan all support. 🇨🇳 - no more 🇨🇳 tourist, that’ll show them! 🇹🇼- booked my flight and hotel for Japan in December. 🇯🇵 - wow, can’t believe it’s to easy to get rid of poorly behaved Chinese tourists.

I hope Grant Atkins get the GF

Information on how to donate for disaster relief in Hualien County, Taiwan.

Flooding in Guangfu Township of Hualien yesterday, due torrential rains in the wake of Typhoon Ragasa #樺加沙, caused the Mataian River to burst its banks and flood the town. Two people have died during the disaster. Ppl

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Show me a better sport than Rugby League!

Okay, good. We get the chance to end the dynasty next week.

Dud calls 🤝 The Wahs

Curious about estimating digital emissions? Want to understand what future laws require you and your organisation to report? Have extra training budget to use before year's out? You should probably join our digital emissions estimates workshop 😉. Next one's Sept 16 greenweb.org/services/est...