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Aussie’s $2.1b Meta salary wasn’t enough. So he left for a rival

The numbers are mind-boggling. If true, or even close to true, it would have made a bloke from Perth the highest-paid employee in the history of the technology industry.

Aussie’s $2.1b Meta salary wasn’t enough. So he left for a rival

We haven't written up this one. The Sydney Morning Herald has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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Writing a real PNG compressor in vanilla JavaScript (no WASM, no libraries)

Every online image converter I tried had the same shape: drag your file in, it uploads to a server somewhere, you get a download link back. That's fine for a meme.

  • Vanilla JavaScript PNG compressor created without WASM or libraries
  • canvas.toBlob() method can silently generate incorrect PNG files
  • Manual compression required to achieve significant file size reduction

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