Samuel
@samuel.fm
my approach to product ownership would be best described as Enlightened Despotism
3 2 47Samuelmuch like Napoleon abolished serfdom, I will abolish JPG/PNG and replace them with WebP
5 1 44Samuelboss: we need to add error logging
me (thinking about Seeing Like a State) okay mr High Modernist, let’s go increase the legibility of our Subjects
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JackI have no idea what this all means
Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦Meh, let's skip it and go straight to JPEG XL
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Signez · Stan SignoudMay I suggest AVIF then? (should be superior to WebP on all points now that it is supported everywhere?)
1 1Samuelmaybe one day but not today, it’s super expensive to encode and we don’t want to make the image reprocessing server explode
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NiklasBut doesn’t Bluesky already reprocess to avif? If I append `@avif` to an image URL from the Bluesky CDN I get an avif version of that image.
1 4Samuelwe do, we are just using ImgProxy. we just have server load considerations
imgproxy: fast and secure on-the-fly image processing
imgproxy is a fast and secure standalone server for resizing and converting remote images. The guiding principles behind imgproxy are security, speed, and simplicity
imgproxy.net
Banda BassottiHoly crap, I was expecting this to be far more limited.
I could tell @bmp worked correctly as soon as I saw the image loading from the bottom.
1Signez · Stan SignoudOkay then; can't wait for JXL to be available everywhere, it would be as good as AVIF while being wayyyy less demanding on the encoder side! (Could be even less demanding than WebP, so it would save you compute too…)
I'll ping you about that next year 💛
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flat earth enthusiastwhat are your designs for the venerable GIF
2 1SamuelSamuel@samuel.fm· 27 Jangifs are a social construct
flat earth enthusiastim quite fond of looping WEBMs in theory but i havent thought about this problem much tbh
1 1flat earth enthusiastsocial construct support when
1 2Samuelmmmm it’s mostly down to fitting it into our existing video pipeline (moderating multiple frames etc) - in a perfect world webms would probably work better
1 1flat earth enthusiastyea makes sense
1flat earth enthusiastalso tyfys
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EtienneIf it's like Napoléon and serfdom, we might end up with BMP 😅
spencer popeI read that as enlightened desposito
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alex benzerchaotic good
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