Compression Memes

Posts tagged with Compression

Experience Knows When To Stop Reinventing The Wheel
Programming Algorithms Debugging Backend
23 hours ago 69.7K views 0 shares
Experience Knows When To Stop Reinventing The Wheel
Junior dev: *screaming in agony* "WE MUST CREATE AN ENTIRELY NEW FILE FORMAT FROM SCRATCH BECAUSE EFFICIENCY!!!" Senior dev: *calmly sips coffee* "Zipped XML. Next problem?" The evolution of problem-solving in tech is brutal. At some point you realize reinventing the wheel isn't impressive—it's just a waste of sprint points. The beard of wisdom knows that existing solutions usually work just fine, while the passionate newbie wants to build a nuclear-powered unicycle.

Give Me JPG Or Give Me Death!
Webdev Programming Frontend
15 days ago 89.5K views 0 shares
Give Me JPG Or Give Me Death!
The revolutionary war for image formats rages on! Front-end developers and designers everywhere are channeling their inner Patrick Henry with this passionate declaration against WebP. Google's "superior" image format might offer better compression, but at what cost? File compatibility issues, inconsistent browser support, and that moment when you need to quickly edit an image but your design software chokes on the format. The JPG loyalists stand firm—they'd rather sacrifice a few kilobytes than surrender their workflow sanity. Sure, WebP might be 26% smaller, but so is my patience when trying to work with these files.

Small Fixes, 100 GB Patch
Gamedev Devops Programming Debugging
17 days ago 63.9K views 0 shares
Small Fixes, 100 GB Patch
The absurdity of modern software bloat in one perfect screenshot! A 10KB JPEG requires 152.77GB of space? That's like needing an aircraft carrier to deliver a postcard. Game developers be like: "We fixed a typo in the credits. Download size: 87GB." Meanwhile, entire operating systems from the 90s fit on a floppy disk. The driveway analogy is brilliant—having storage space doesn't justify developers treating your SSD like their personal dumping ground. No, I don't want to sacrifice 1/4 of my hard drive because you couldn't be bothered to implement delta patching.

When The First Year CS Student Asks What Is A Zip File
Programming Algorithms
26 days ago 67.0K views 0 shares
When The First Year CS Student Asks What Is A Zip File
That moment when you realize you've been in this industry so long that basic concepts have become ancient artifacts. The look of existential dread when a freshman asks what a zip file is... like watching someone question why we still use wheels on cars. Nothing makes you feel more like a digital dinosaur than explaining compression algorithms to kids who grew up with unlimited cloud storage. And here I am, remembering when we passed code around on actual floppy disks.

Until Death
Java Programming Backend
1 month ago 81.4K views 0 shares
Until Death
The lifecycle of a Java developer's soul! First you're all excited about Person.exe because you think you've built something executable. Then reality hits and you're zipping up your code in desperation. Finally, your spirit gets permanently stored in a Person.jar file – where dreams and heap space go to die. The real reason Java developers drink so much coffee is to cope with being trapped in tiny JAR prisons for eternity.