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How To Put On A Nerd Conference

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Re: How To Put On A Nerd Conference

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Is it wrong that I've been to these sort of conferences and actually enjoyed myself?

Webstock (http://www.webstock.org.nz/) in particular is great if you're ever in my part of the world. Great signal-to-noise ratio, fantastic speakers, very little of the standard tech conference douche baggery ("10 tips to monetize your blog"; any panel comprised of commentators rather than people who make stuff; etc.) and an upbeat sort of atmosphere that's difficult to articulate.

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Well, the main difference is you won't end up with blurry text and artifacts. http://imgur.com/GkCbP.png

holy smokes, chaosmachine, you just changed my world! (not being snarky either, I seriously never knew that in all my days of amateur photodoodling)

A very general rule I learned is that png's are best for images with large areas of the same color (screenshots, logos, text) while jpegs are best for images with lots of color variation (real-life pictures, for example).

Re: How To Put On A Nerd Conference

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Is it wrong that I've been to these sort of conferences and actually enjoyed myself? Webstock ( http://www.webstock.org.nz/ ) in particular is great if you're ever in my part of the world. Great signal-to-noise ratio, fantastic speakers, very little of the standard tech conference douche baggery ("10 tips to monetize your blog"; any panel comprised of commentators rather than people who make stuff; etc.) and an upbea…

Makes me wish I lived in New Zealand... :)

Re: How To Put On A Nerd Conference

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

holy smokes, chaosmachine, you just changed my world! (not being snarky either, I seriously never knew that in all my days of amateur photodoodling)

A very general rule I learned is that png's are best for images with large areas of the same color (screenshots, logos, text) while jpegs are best for images with lots of color variation (real-life pictures, for example).

PNGs are good at compressing gradients too, I hear.
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