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> Image compression should be primarily an engineering issue

It affects how they look, so it's a design issue. I'd compress them all to 1% if it primarily an engineering issue.

> Everything is SO SERIOUS now

Actually, if you read the article the author explain why this only applies to curl, and explicitly says they understand if other software wants to continue including easter eggs

___qon Making Websites Small

Working with designers, I'm provided final images at spec and can only optimize them losslessly; compressing an image changes its appearance. The CLI commands in this article use lossy compression. The point stands, alternative image formats should be used whenever possible, but I need a lossless compression pipeline to generate WEBP, AVIF, etc.

___qon Square is now called Block

That makes sense in a Brand pitch meeting, but there are so many things called Block in this space I think they could have been more unique. I thought this was about The Block (the news site) at first glance.