Being Hari 😌·1d agoLZFSE Is on Its Way Out: A Measured Tour of Apple’s Compression FrameworkSeven algorithms benchmarked across four corpora, two more that Swift can’t reach, and the reason Apple’s zlib won’t decode in Python.
Shreyas Namdeo·2d agoZIP vs JPEG: Why Won’t My Photo Shrink?How repeat matching, short codes and image quality affect file size.
vinay krishna·5d agoHow to Reduce Video File Size Without Losing Quality (30 MB to 2.6 MB)I ran six free ffmpeg settings on two test clips and measured size, speed and quality. One setting won on both.
Purvanshparmar·Oct 22Ten compressor settings on 128 MiB of logs, ranked by the bytes each CPU second boughtzstd at its default is smaller than gzip -6 and cheaper at the same time. Past that point one CPU second is worth 138 kB of AWS egress, and…
CompressVid·Oct 21I Asked for 24 MB and Got 7.48 MB. Here’s What “Target Size” Really MeansEight real compressions, and why the number you type is a ceiling, not a goal
Umair·Oct 15I Tested Zstd Against Brotli on My Nginx ServersThis article should have been published much earlier. I started experimenting with zstd-nginx-module in early 2024, but its compatibility…
InMac O’ClockbyIghor July·Oct 15The iPhone Storage Controls Apple Left Out of FilesWhen an iPhone starts running out of storage, the conversation usually becomes a negotiation with your files. Which downloads can go? Which…A response icon2A response icon2
Sarath S·Oct 13How your photo becomes a JPEG (and where the quality goes) (IWSET #7)Last week I explained how GPS pins your location using nothing but the timing of radio signals. This week, something you touch even more…
Schnapka Christian·Oct 1131% Smaller and Up to 83% Faster Than LZ4Both at once, which is not how compression works. And step one is one changed function call — keep liblz4 writing, point a different…
