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Does the Canvas api have support for webp?

Fair point, although I like the blur effect. But you can also fill in with a solid color or transparency.

Thanks It was fun to build.

Good idea. I've just changed it so now you can keep pushing the blur button and it will increase the blur by 1px for each push.

The site itself is at https://photo16x9.com

The single player mode is just for beginners, but I do think we have a pretty nice multiplayer feature, where you can easily challenge others and start a new game without creating …

The alternative to serverless isn't "single instance". With Elastic Beanstalk you can have multiple instances, autoscaling etc.

> This feels very "Serverless is cool, everyone is saving money on it, lets do the same More like "seems like there's an easy way for me to try this new thing out, lets give it a s…

Yes, ALB would have been a much better fit for us. We used API Gateway because that's what the serverless framework sets up (at least by default) and I didn't know you could use AL…

> requires a complete re-architect of your stack. Not necessarily. The reason I decided to try this was exactly because I found a tutorial showing you could easily host a bog-stand…

Yeah, that would have been a much better fit. I just didn't know you could put ALB in front. (Also, a "load balancer" in front of serverless... , and yes I know load balancer do mo…

There are definitely still things you need to think about with Lambda, like how much memory you want to allocate etc.

Thanks :)

There are no user accounts on the site, and there is no tracking of any users. I simply saw the avatar image that he posted and targeted that, so probably a few random users got Da…

I agree :) This was definitely luck, most people never get celebrities tweeting about their games. And I guess now I am getting some marketing value out of it, but honestly I just …

Well, given that he retweeted a tweet that had the explanation of how it worked, and he added the #BestFansInTheGalaxy hashtag I think he's OK. But really, I probably wouldn't have…

Yeah, this was not so much marketing as luck and wanting to make a cool easter egg.