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Chapter 1 · A laptop at the bottom of the world
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Keyboard
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- C Captions · M Mute · F Full screen
Transcript
Notes for class
- Based on Engineering for Slow Internet by brr (brr.fyi, May 30, 2024). The film paraphrases the article; the stories and numbers are the author's. Read the whole thing.
- Pairs with the Availability lesson and the film A Budget for Patience.
- Try it yourself: in DevTools, set network throttling to a custom profile with 750 ms latency and 256 kb/s, then load the app you use most.
- The narration is a synthetic voice (ElevenLabs). Timing follows the narration track, so a recorded voice-over can replace it cue for cue using the transcript.
- With Reduce Motion turned on in the operating system, the film keeps its fades and drops the sliding motion.
- Set in Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Mono, typefaces the Braille Institute designed for readers with low vision.
Take it with you
- Video (MP4, 1080p, 6:19, 11 MB), with English captions built in
- Captions: WebVTT or SRT, for Canvas or YouTube
- Narration script (plain text) with chapter timecodes, for recording your own voice-over