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Cake day: August 13th, 2023

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  • So, here’s a fuck up from earlier this year:

    A family friend came over one day. I was out by my car, having returned from a visit to the shops. I hadn’t seen him in years, and he asks how I was. I responded with “Surviving”, before saying something about my degree progress and stuff.

    He goes a bit quiet and awkward, eventually making his way inside while I finished what I was doing.

    I walked inside and walked past my parents talking to him. Then I remembered something. His partner was diagnosed with a brain tumour that had metastasised from breast cancer. I also remembered that a few days ago, my parents went to visit his partner in the palliative care unit because she lost the fight. I realised then that he clearly came around to tell my parents that she had passed away. She fucking died and I responded with “Surviving”.


  • This is way too opinionated imo. Many of these options I disagree with. There are github repos with much larger content suggestions and they all benefit from offering multiple options. There is often no such thing as a singular “best”.

    So, my opinion of this list is that, unfortunately, while it is informative by listing names of software, it offers zero description as to why you’ve deemed it best. As I said, often times software has trade-offs, and that allows a competitor can be a better choice when those weaker areas are more important to a user. I suggest thinking about that and improving to fit that into your site.

    But again, repos exist that already cover this in depth. So try to be different. Perhaps do reviews, add screenshots, and do more than those repo readmes can.




  • Not really.

    JPEG is a lossy compression format. It loses information to reduce filesize.

    PNG is a lossless compressed format. It serves as a well-rounded format for general purpose image compression without the loss of information. The downside is the image can be much large in file size.

    SVG is a vector graphic, as you seem to be aware. These files have what is effectively infinite resolution, but can be significantly larger in filesize, depending on the circumstances.

    WEBP is a more efficient lossless compression format. It is analogous to PNG, but smaller file size. Additionally, as you stated, it can also be used for animated graphics,like GIF formats.

    I think WEBP is a decent format and is significantly more modern than PNG. That being said, however, the main issue is the lack of modern integration and adaptation for newer image formats.

    Personally, I use whatever. The only exception is when 8 need to store images on github in a repository. Then, I will typically convert to webp and optimise the image to reduce the file size as much as possible.