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Combining Images, Data and Intelligence to Transform Your Business
Company blog · blog.imgix.comwebprogramming
Combining Images, Data and Intelligence to Transform Your Business is the company blog at blog.imgix.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “WebP, JPEG XR, and Progressive JPG Support with Auto Content Negotiation”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts from imgix's blog about its image processing and CDN product, including a April Fools' feature announcement and a note on performance work. Comments mention it as a product, not as writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Redefine how you optimize, edit, and deliver your visual media with tools built for speed, performance, and AI transformation.
Most-linked posts?
- WebP, JPEG XR, and Progressive JPG Support with Auto Content Negotiation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-21
- How We Are Improving Performance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-18
What Hacker News says?
imgix launched the Chester Face feature, which we're providing to our customers as an AFaaS (April Fools as a Service) option: http://blog.imgix.com/post/115195342369/new-imgix-feature-ch... Chester Face is a tool that will automatically detect any faces in your imagery and replace those faces with that of Chester. (Chester is an engineer's cat, who happens to be photogenic and comes out of the box in the correct sh…
Comment linking /post/115195342369/new-imgix-feature-chester-face
on “List of April Fools' Day Announcements”Submitted How We Are Improving Performance as a story · 45 points
HN discussionWe switched to imgix recently (after using pre-processed versions using carrierwave / ImageMagick / cloudfront), and it works pretty well for us. There were a few odd glitches setting up, but once it's up and running it seems to do really well. One neat feature of imgix is its auto format, which converts images to webp/progressive Jpeg on-the-fly based on the browser headers[0]. I'm not associated in any way with im…
Comment linking /post/90838796454/webp-jpeg-xr-progressive-jpg-support-w-auto
on “Resize.ly – Images resized, responsive, and retina ready”Submitted Programmatically create user avatars with Imgix face detection as a story · 39 points
HN discussionHa, I thought that was a joke. Apparently not: https://blog.imgix.com/2015/05/08/racking-mac-pros-hardware-...
Comment linking /2015/05/08/racking-mac-pros-hardware-design-for-web-scale.html
on “How We Are Improving Performance”Submitted Imgix (YC S11) announces new Image Manager for all accounts, adds free plan as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted WebP, JPEG XR, and Progressive JPG Support with Auto Content Negotiation as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted The imgix Asset Manager Plugin for Figma as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Dynamically Blend Images with imgix as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How We Are Improving Performance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatic Image Enhancement as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Happens When an Image Request Is Made as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
