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Profile pic and banner credits: sharkaeopteryx art by @superkiak! eggbug by eggbug! Mash-up by me!
[Alt-text for pfp: a cute sharkaeopteryx sat on the ground with legs out, wings down, jaw ajar, and hed empty, looking at eggbug and eggbug's enigmatic smile.]
[Alt-text for banner: a Spirit Halloween banner with eggbug and the sharkaeopteryx that Superkiak drew for me looking at it with inscrutable expressions]


I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.

Ask me about language learning/teaching, cooking/eating food, late diagnosis ADHD, and volunteer small business mentoring. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.


I think people deserve to be young, make mistakes, and grow without being held to standards they don't know about yet and are still learning. So, if you are under 22, please don't try to strike up a friendship or get involved in discussions on my posts.


Please don't automatically assume I follow/know/co-sign someone just because I reposted something from them—sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Also, if you think being removed as a follower when we're not mutuals is a cardinal sin, please do not follow me.


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tercel-enby
@tercel-enby

I understand if you want full resolution for art, but my internet connection begs you to become familiar with an image compressor like TinyPNG or similar


MxSelfDestruct
@MxSelfDestruct

it's cheap and easy, if you've got big files embedded in a page (like high-resolution images/video/audio), you can just tell the browser to only load them when needed


eramdam
@eramdam

CSS has a property called image-rendering and one of the values is pixelated.

The image is scaled with the "nearest neighbor" or similar algorithm to the nearest integer multiple of the original image size, then uses smooth interpolation to bring the image to the final desired size. This is intended to preserve a "pixelated" look without introducing scaling artifacts when the upscaled resolution isn't an integer multiple of the original.

So if you want to have your pixelart pieces on your website keep their look when you make them bigger/smaller1, image-rendering: pixelated is your best friend :eggbug:


  1. assuming you use integer increments of size. I'm assuming most pixelart artists are aware that resizing to 1.2x or 3.6x the size is Not A Good Time but you never know haha


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in reply to @tercel-enby's post:

god, i used to have so many problems with people uploading heavy files on websites, which would sometimes just not load at all with my internet connection.

i actually urge people to save files as JPG, since nowadays most drawing programs allow you to save images as high quality JPGs. It looks indistinguishable from PNGs, while always being under 1 MB.