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Eli the Bearded (elithebearded@fed.qaz.red)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 13:54:23 JST Eli the Bearded
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- Jessie Nabein :neofox_peek_owo:
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I remember when JPEG was a new thing and people decompressing their GIF files to recompress as JPEG despite the two having very different lossiness patterns.
People are weird about image compression. Codinghorror has several posts about improving image compression but HTML and javascript size optimization is largely ignored. "What if Discourse didn't send two copies of every post on forum page loads? Nah, too complicated."
https://blog.codinghorror.com/zopfli-optimization-literally-free-bandwidth/
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  Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth
  
  In 2007 I wrote about using PNGout to produce amazingly small PNG images [https://blog.codinghorror.com/getting-the-most-out-of-png/]. I still refer to this topic frequently, as seven years later, the average PNG I encounter on the Internet is very unlikely to be optimized. For example, consider this recent Perry Bible
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