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Standards notes.
Everything we have published under Standards. Long-form essays, ship notes, and the occasional opinion.
Standards posts
What an A rating actually proves
A letter on the box is only worth something if everyone agrees what it measures. This is what ours measures.
Energy budgets are the new performance budgets
Teams cap page weight and load time. The next budget on the list is energy, and it is overdue.
How we measure software the way we measure fridges
Appliances got legible energy labels decades ago. Software is the last mass product without one.
A benchmark tells you speed, a rating tells you waste
A small inefficiency, multiplied by a billion runs, stops being small. Here is where the cost actually lands.
Why optimisation stopped being optional
Runtime cleverness pays a tax on every request. Compile-time work pays it once. The maths is not close.
The grade your engineers have been waiting for
Every extra dependency ships a cost you never see itemised. We itemise it.
From vibes to numbers: grading the unmeasured
When a framework ships three layers to do one job, the hardware pays the difference. So do you.