sharedphysics

Guide to Locally Optimising Product Images For Web with Image Magick

All tools for image formatting, compression, and rule-based/bulk processing should be tested for quality before being put into active use.

We spend quite a deal of time and effort to make images that look really great, and it’s silly to throw that away just because the bulk-processing tool at the last step is convenient. Because customer experience and our site’s performance both depend a lot on the speed of the page, we should do everything possible to balance image-quality and image-size concerns.

By processing, resizing, and compressing these images, we can compare any new tools back against the originals and against a full-quality photoshop export w/ the same constraints (the .psd file is there too).

Processes we’ve tested:

• ImageMagik

raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

sharedphysics

#!/bin/sh

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# The following script is to help automate deployment of hugo sites on github pages. 
# If you're just getting started, I recommend reading my full notes here: 
# https://www.romandesign.co/setting-up-a-hugo-static-site-on-github/
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# To run it, make sure you have made some site updates to deploy and via terminal in your backend and save the code in your hugo backend repo. 
# Then type the following (no $):
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jasonrdsouza

'''This script can be used to export data from Pocket (getpocket.com)
Uses include migrating to a different "read it later" service, saving
specific articles to another service, backing up your reading history,
and more.

Currently it can be used to export links and metadata for archived
articles with a given tag, which are more recent than a given timestamp.

An example use case is to export all articles you have tagged as
"to-export", which are newer than 10 days old. The timestamp functionality

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real