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1. Nic Lake 6 min later

   @zachleat oh no it’s not mine is it

   1. Zach Leatherman 7 min later

      @niclake your favicon is 7KB nice job 🏆

2. Ross Young 6 min later

   @zachleat

   1. Zach Leatherman 8 min later

      @MightyRedPanda om(sv)g

      1. Ross Young 15 min later

         @zachleat Was it overly complicated or just legit big?

         1. Zach Leatherman 16 min later

            @MightyRedPanda ~1000×1000 raster image embedded inside an SVG

            1. Ross Young 23 min later

               @zachleat 🙃 :picardfacepalm:

            2. William O'Connell 1 hr later

               @zachleat Classic. One time at a job I discovered that an SVG on our website contained an embedded 1920x1080 image that was a screenshot of our designer's entire desktop. They had cropped it to a tiny region but the software (Illustrator?) had still included the whole thing in the file.

               1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

                  @williamoconnell haha yes—opsec of PDF files have the same concerns! Software-added black rectangles on top leave the original content as-is 😅

3. Matt King 🍔 10 min later

   @zachleat Once asked a designer to change their icons from PNGs to SVGs. Got this back…

   `<svg><image width="100" height="100" xlink:href="data:image/png;base64,kilobytesofpngcode" /></svg>`

   1. Zach Leatherman 14 min later

      @mttkng they showed you the true power of SVG! 😅

4. Gavin Anderegg 17 min later

   @zachleat The sort of web development that assumes everyone has ultra fast internet always makes me grumpy. See also: https://anderegg.ca/2023/10/22/20-megabytes-of-floating-ducks

   1. Zach Leatherman 19 min later

      @gavinanderegg likely just a simple mistake—the rest of the site seems good.

      1. Gavin Anderegg 28 min later

         @zachleat Ah, ok. That's good to hear!

5. Bob Monsour 29 min later

   @zachleat In the voice of John McEnroe “You cannot be serious!”

   1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

      @bobmonsour John, forever mad 😅

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7. Thomas Michael Semmler 1 hr later

   @zachleat I hope it was just a plain black rect

   1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

      @nachtfunke how big would a single color PNG have to be to hit 1.2 MB 😬

8. Vadim Makeev 2 hr later

   @zachleat You can probably play Doom on it. Worth it.

   1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

      @pepelsbey the meatball monsters are coming for us all

9. thomas 3 hr later

   @zachleat base64’ing BMPs is wild!

10. Matt 8 hr later

    @zachleat Why use <path> when you can use <rect> for each pixel!