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Love this deep dive explainer on how JPEG compression works

www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg

2 posts in a week, the sky might be falling. no i'm kidding, please don't fall, sky.
this time we think about how to tell people to about fees when transferring funds.

https://chenhuijing.com/blog/designing-a-who-pays-the-fees-interface/

got more acquainted with BigInt after starting this job.
still don't like basis points.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://chenhuijing.com/blog/mathematical-precision-in-javascript/

a very long overdue "housekeeping" chore for my self-hosted analytics solution. 1,000,000 rows on t3.micro makes for fun migrations. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://chenhuijing.com/blog/database-troubleshooting-for-umami/

there's something about refreshing your website that makes it fun to write blog posts again.there is no rational logic for this, i'm literally still writing markdown. oh well.
did create a new OG image though...because yak shaving is the story of my life.

https://chenhuijing.com/blog/lets-talk-sample-apps/

I've had the same blog for more than a decade. This is the second time I'm migrating to another tech stack. I'm surprised how easy it was to deploy with Netlify simply by switching repos. I guess I'll find out if I broke anything in the coming days...haha

https://chenhuijing.com/blog/migrating-from-hugo-to-astro/

Tag, you're it!: https://chenhuijing.com/blog/tag-youre-it/

haven't done a chain thing in forever.
https://chenhuijing.com/blog/tag-youre-it/

tagging @csswizardry.com if you feel like being part of the chain too

Migrating content collections from Astro 4 to 5: https://chenhuijing.com/blog/migrating-content-collections-from-astro-4-to-5/

"We should not fall into binary positions. We need balanced regulation that maintains healthy profit-driven competition but keeps capitalism’s worst tendencies in check. Achieving that is admittedly very difficult in these highly polarized times."
-@benjedwards@mastodon.social

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/the-pc-is-dead-its-time-to-make-computing-personal-again

now that i think about it, the people who i know who have their own websites are all folks who work on the web, and not the average person on the interwebs 🥲

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/our-online-homes-need-infastructure/