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AsyncMonk

Nov 5

OCR said done and returned half the page, so count lines before trusting it

#webdev #javascript

4 min read

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Nov 4

My matting pick won all 90 frames and still flickered more in 89 of 89

#webdev #javascript

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Nov 3

A skip rule for re-encode scripts, and why the bpp threshold moves with your CRF

#webdev #javascript

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Nov 2

What one 10-frame sample can and cannot tell you before you change your GIF export settings

#webdev #javascript

4 min read

AsyncMonk

Nov 1

What one 4-page sample can and cannot tell you before you fix a preview DPI

#webdev #javascript

4 min read

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Oct 31

What one portrait and one hair sample can and cannot tell you before you change a thumbnail pipeline

#webdev #javascript

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Oct 30

What 12 PNGs can and cannot tell you before you swap a paid API for local tools

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 29

Three things I saw when a PDF had fonts I may not embed

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 28

My transparent WebM is 2.4 MB. The editor wants 62 MB. Which format do I send?

#webdev #javascript

3 min read

AsyncMonk

Oct 27

Our upload cap is 10 MB: how much margin does a bitrate-targeted encode need?

#webdev #javascript

3 min read

AsyncMonk

Oct 26

Keeping 18-digit IDs intact between OCR text and a spreadsheet

#webdev #javascript

3 min read

AsyncMonk

Oct 25

Pulling assets out of a client's brochure PDF: where raw extraction stops being enough

#webdev #javascript

4 min read

AsyncMonk

Oct 24

A pure-white check for product photos: strict failed all 18 JPEGs, loose passed off-white

#webdev #javascript

4 min read

AsyncMonk

Oct 23

7 images in, 5 files out: keeping subfolder paths when a web page converts a whole folder

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 22

Only 13% of the pixels moved, yet the GIF frames stored 74% of the canvas. Keep the moving parts together

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 21

Video background removers all promise clean edges. Here are the checks I run before a client sees the file

#webdev #javascript

4 min read

AsyncMonk

Oct 20

Should a small web app serve H.265? I did the byte math on two 1080p clips

#webdev #javascript

4 min read

AsyncMonk

Oct 19

Splitting a 20-page PDF into 4 long images beat lowering the DPI

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 18

A client wants a signed contract smaller: five checks I run before touching it

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 17

My upload pipeline turned every screenshot into JPEG. The text got noisy and the files were bigger than PNG-8

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 16

The first AVIF export in a web tool is mostly a download

#webdev #javascript

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Oct 15

My OffscreenCanvas Worker ignored a font the page had already loaded

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 14

5 things I check before processing video frame by frame in the browser

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 13

Portrait video comes in two kinds. I bake the rotation in at upload

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 12

Cropping a screenshot in Word isn't redaction. I checked the HTML

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 11

If users say the PDF has wrong characters, here's what I check

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AsyncMonk

Oct 10

I almost shipped binarize-at-128 before OCR. Gray text vanished

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 9

Soft shadows and icon edges need different fixes in 256-colour PNGs

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 8

Can't copy or edit a contract PDF? Ask the sender before trying tools

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Oct 7

A valid PNG was still the wrong video thumbnail deliverable

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AsyncMonk

Oct 6

Before adding a streaming stack I tested startup and seeking separately

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AsyncMonk

Oct 5

When I would stop trying PDF extractors and ask for the source

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AsyncMonk

Oct 4

canvas.toBlob silently crops WebP past 16,383 px, and nothing tells you

#webdev #javascript

3 min read

AsyncMonk

Oct 3

Removing the white fringe from a cutout punched a hole in a variegated leaf

#webdev #javascript

4 min read

AsyncMonk

Oct 2

Browsers only export baseline JPEG, so progressive is a server job

#webdev #javascript

3 min read

AsyncMonk

Oct 1

My upload code turned every image into JPEG. Red posters got bigger

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AsyncMonk

Sep 30

What a 200 KB upload limit costs a 24 MP photo: time, pixels, quality

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Sep 29

The first visit to an in-browser AI tool downloads about 50 MB before the first inference. Who pays for it?

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Sep 28

Supporting HEIC uploads: the decoder is 1.46 MB, but most visitors never download it

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Sep 26

My upload slider never worked: canvas.toBlob ignores quality: '0.8'

#webdev #javascript

3 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 25

Four checks before I send a web report as a PDF

#webdev #javascript

4 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 24

Sending a proposal to a client: Word, PDF, or a single HTML file

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Sep 23

Dropping the resolution made my screen recording bigger and unreadable

#webdev #javascript

4 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 22

Which lines survive upscaling a 300px product shot

#webdev #javascript

3 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 21

I tuned a demo GIF for an afternoon before checking if it could shrink at all

#webdev #javascript

5 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 20

The ZIP of images from a PDF has no page numbers, so I rebuild them

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Sep 19

The Screen/email PDF preset made my product manual unreadable

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Sep 18

Four kinds of web images, four different things to check after compressing

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AsyncMonk

Sep 17

Client says the WebP looks washed out: a color profile checklist before delivery

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3 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 16

HEIC to JPG made a sample photo 38% bigger: 3 checks before handing client photos over

#webdev #javascript

4 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 15

A background-swapped MP4 came out twice the size of its input, and what else I check before delivery

#webdev #javascript

4 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 14

Pillow dropped GPS from my test photos, sips kept it, and one PNG had it twice

#webdev #javascript

5 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 12

Page count is the wrong unit for estimating a PDF-to-text job

#webdev #javascript

5 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 11

Why free tiers of image compressors look the way they do (and what that means for a solo dev)

#webdev #javascript

3 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 10

I loaded a 24-page, 24-layer project into a browser tab to see it break

#webdev #javascript

3 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 9

Switching document delivery from attachments to a single web file

#webdev #javascript

2 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 8

What Office-to-web conversion drops most often

#webdev #javascript

2 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 7

A 371MB demo video became 145MB locally — the bandwidth math

#webdev #javascript

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AsyncMonk

Sep 6

Which document tasks never need to leave the browser

#webdev #javascript

2 min read

AsyncMonk

Sep 5

Moving upscaling into the browser changed the cost, not the quality

#webdev #javascript

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