Photos Page
As you might have noticed, I added a photos page on this site. Something I wanted to do for a very long time but always procrastinating.
During certain periods of my life, photography was my greatest passion, just as much as I do today with Open Source and programming. Instagram was once a delightful, minimalist platform for photo sharing that I frequently used - until Meta's acquisition changed everything. While I could even tolerate the algorithms, ads, and short videos, the recent change of profile photo grids' aspect ratio from square to 4:5 was the final straw - an arrogant decision that impacts every user's content without proper solutions provided.
I am not sure if anger or disappointment are the right words to describe my feelings. But certainly, I am super lucky to be a frontend developer at the same time - so I can leverage my skills to build my own website and host my photos here.
So I requested to download all my data from Instagram (it takes roughly a day to process in my case), and then import them to the website. I use
Gratefully, the downloaded data is rather easy to process, and the photos track back to 2015. It's an intresting feeling to go though all those photos again. Technically speaking, my old photos are not honestly reaching my standards today. But they hold a ton of memories for me, so I kept most of them, hope you don't mind :P
Here here you have some of my recent photos:
It's a shame that the image quality from Instagram is pretty bad, as they compressed photos a lot upon posting. For that, I might consider to replace some of them with higher quality source I have in the future, but for now I think it's a good enough start.
That said, I wish could get back the routine of posting my photos often (as I am always saying 😅), especially now I have my own platform for that.
Thanks for reading! And I hope you find some of my photos interesting. Chesse!
via Anthony Fu (author: [email protected] (Anthony Fu))
As you might have noticed, I added a photos page on this site. Something I wanted to do for a very long time but always procrastinating.
During certain periods of my life, photography was my greatest passion, just as much as I do today with Open Source and programming. Instagram was once a delightful, minimalist platform for photo sharing that I frequently used - until Meta's acquisition changed everything. While I could even tolerate the algorithms, ads, and short videos, the recent change of profile photo grids' aspect ratio from square to 4:5 was the final straw - an arrogant decision that impacts every user's content without proper solutions provided.
I am not sure if anger or disappointment are the right words to describe my feelings. But certainly, I am super lucky to be a frontend developer at the same time - so I can leverage my skills to build my own website and host my photos here.
So I requested to download all my data from Instagram (it takes roughly a day to process in my case), and then import them to the website. I use
sharp to process the images and compress them with this script. It semi-automatically helps me to manage the photos without me to worry about the image sizes for hosting etc.Gratefully, the downloaded data is rather easy to process, and the photos track back to 2015. It's an intresting feeling to go though all those photos again. Technically speaking, my old photos are not honestly reaching my standards today. But they hold a ton of memories for me, so I kept most of them, hope you don't mind :P
Here here you have some of my recent photos:
It's a shame that the image quality from Instagram is pretty bad, as they compressed photos a lot upon posting. For that, I might consider to replace some of them with higher quality source I have in the future, but for now I think it's a good enough start.
That said, I wish could get back the routine of posting my photos often (as I am always saying 😅), especially now I have my own platform for that.
Thanks for reading! And I hope you find some of my photos interesting. Chesse!
via Anthony Fu (author: [email protected] (Anthony Fu))
