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  • It’s 18 MB because it’s GIFs, about 16 frames each… at least the palette of is optimized by panel. There is some charm to the dithering as opposed to DCT (JPG/WebP block) artifacts. Also, she only started using WebP in 2021, it wasn’t viable much earlier. Technically, the static background and low-color foreground could be separated (JPG + GIF with very small palette, maybe rotated to compress streaks horizontally; too early for APNG) and overlaid with CSS to achieve about the same signal-to-noise ratio at about one half to one third the size. However, the noise would be different…

    The falling drops that indicate loading of each image are very cool but I wonder if something similar, plus the fade-in of all images at once, could have been done with just HTML and CSS, broadening accessibility to noscript users.


  • There are actually two interpretations of N/A:

    • N/A (not available): There is lost media so it can’t be evaluated.
    • N/A (not applicable): The show is in sign language so evaluating that is outside the scope of this string-matching program.

    Meanwhile, undefined seems to mean the value has not yet been evaluated. Maybe null is really the best.















  • Zalgo generators often have a settable range for the random number of diacritics per letter. If it includes 1 and you’re (un)lucky, you can get oops-all-acutes. Manually, you can copy the combining character alone (not easy, as you can’t usually select it, but you can use web apps or UnicodePad) and paste one after every letter.

    Combining diacritics actually include some overlays (s̸l̸a̸s̸h̸e̸s̸, s̶̶t̶̶r̶̶i̶̶k̶̶e̶̶t̶̶h̶̶r̶̶o̶̶u̶̶g̶̶h̶, not⃠, bo⃞x etc.) and allow for vertical text without newlines (although support for characters except aeioucdhmrtvx is spotty). Great for Kahoot names if the host machine runs Windows and displays them in a column, as opposed to overlaid like on Android.

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