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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • You can make nearly all images small enough to upload and still look good without dropping colour depth. There are 3 ways to achieve it basically:

    • Resize it to a lower resolution (1280 x whatever looks just fine on a screen)
    • Reduce the quality
    • Change to lossy (JPG) from non-lossy (PNG)

    The resizing is usually enough.

    The quality reduction is something that google pagespeed focuses on too. For most apps that means choosing a lower “quality” when converting to jpg or saving as a new jpg. 85% of original is good.

    If you happen to have imagemagick installed, I have a little script that I use called “resize_to_pagespeed.sh”. The jist of it is this:

    convert inputfile.jpg -filter Lanczos -resize 1280x1280 -sampling-factor 4:2:0 -strip -quality 85 outputfile.jpg

    I just ran this on a 2.4MB photo (below) and it came out at 186KB. That’s a 13x reduction. Right click -> open in new tab to see it full size.

    If the image isn’t square, imagemagick is smart enough to figure out correct dimensions.















  • At 7 years of age I was collecting the grass coming out of my neighbours lawnmower. I was tossing it in the air at my dog who was having great fun jumping into the air catching it.

    Cue my neighbour running over my foot with his lawnmower. I didn’t feel much pain as it shredded straight through my runner and skin.

    I was rushed to hospital and somehow they saved my toe. It took about five years for me to regain feeling in it.

    Edit: oh I missed the word “work”.



  • A few for me:

    • Death of my father.
    • Getting married. Hitting 20 years in August. Hopefully many more to come.
    • Realising I didn’t enjoy the business course I was on in college, burning the two years already spent and moving to computer science which I loved every minute of.
    • Having kids. They bring me so much joy.
    • Leaving a well paid job that I didn’t really enjoy and starting my own business.
    • Travel. It’s so important to experience different cultures and viewpoints.
    • edit: Finding a sport that I loved. I wasn’t a sporty kid but decided to start trying different things in my 20s.