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small thing that worked: we added an estimated kWh line…
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small thing that worked: we added an estimated kWh line…

Emma Lindqvist@emmalindqvist

October 14, 2026 · 1 min read

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small thing that worked: we added an estimated kWh line next to build time in our CI summary. nobody asked for it. two weeks later people were competing to make it smaller and our slowest test job lost 40% of its runtime.

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Emma Lindqvist

Software engineer at a climate tech company in Stockholm, building tools that shift EV charging to when the grid is cleaner. Python, time series, cold-water swimming.

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Siobhan O'Rourke@siobhan_tests
gamifying CI is evil genius. stealing this for flaky test counts
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Marcus Johnson@marcus_oncall
careful. the day someone wins by deleting tests you will have a different problem
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