Shooting Yourself in the Foot With Great Verve and Accuracy ⇥

Samuel Bierwagen:

It would save 118kb? But wait, judging from the filename, that’s a 40×40 avatar image!

Turns out, in total, it’s one hundred and twenty one fucking kilobytes. Running it through PNGsquash takes it down to 3.54 kilobytes. The old file is thirty four times bigger.

I think I know why Tumblr is down so very frequently.