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Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support

A new version of Rust’s image crate has support for EXIF orientation, which allows me to resize images without mangling their rotation.

Looking at images in a spreadsheet

The IMAGE and HYPERLINK functions allow me to use a spreadsheet as a lightweight, collaborative space for dealing with images.

TIL: Create solid-colour image placeholders to show before an image loads

TIL: Why is Pillow rotating my image when I save it?

Images can have orientation specified in their EXIF metadata, which isn’t preserved when you open and save an image with Pillow.

A bookmarklet to show which responsive image was chosen

Debugging my <picture> and <source> tags.

Beware of transparent backgrounds when using AVIF with ImageMagick 6

You probably want to use version 7.

A script to get Live Text from images

Using Apple’s built-in tools to get OCR text from an image, but without going through a GUI.

Adjusting the dominant colour of an image

Adjusting the hue to get different colour variants of the same image.

Converting Acorn images on the command-line

I wrote some AppleScript to help me do batch conversion of Acorn images into formats like PNG and JPEG.