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LinkedIn job alerts in Slack without logging in to LinkedIn

LinkedIn's own job alerts live in your LinkedIn inbox, need an account, and are hard to share with a team. If you want new postings for a few searches dropped into a Slack channel (a recruiting team…

  • LinkedIn offers job alerts directly in inbox
  • Set up Slack incoming webhook URL for job sharing
  • Use Apify tool or Python script to automate posting

Why JPEG makes screenshots bigger, not smaller (with numbers)

The usual advice for a screenshot that's too big to share is "save it as JPEG". I tested that on a long page of text, and the JPEG came out larger than the PNG while looking worse.

  • JPEG designed for photographs, not text-heavy images
  • JPEG compression inefficient for sharp edges like text
  • JPEG quality reduction causes halos around letters

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