small images + folderpics demo -- September 14, 2020
Why small images? Don’t send a 1.4mb png when a 30kb jpg will do.
Image optimisation is nothing new. As many of my other developers who touch frontend code know, don’t send huge images to the browser it will slow down page speed. Same applies to the messages you send you colleges.
The last half year, while working from home, more of my communication has been digital than ever before. I knew about image optimisation before, even contributed to an image service lambda at work.
year-progress demo -- July 26, 2020
Today I’d like to demo a fun little Rust cli app I wrote. It’s a little app to print a progress bar of the year called year-progress.
Being my first rust project it is dead simple. Basically just wires together a few simple rust libraries/crates:
clap: rust cli app framework indicatif: progress bar library chrono: datetime library for calculating number of days since the start of thee year The source code is available via my sourcehut repos: