Mo Photos Mo Problems

Some notes—hope to expand further—on the surprising number of additional website issues I faced when trying to include more photos on my blog.

• authoring

  • taking more photos
    • at more angles
    • w/ more lenses
  • selecting
  • editing
  • narrative construction based on good photos
    • not intrinsic (but non-photographable) beauty
    • not genuine interest
  • placement
  • pruning (slow here)
  • writing captions

• images themselves

  • interlaced / progressive
  • choosing the right size
  • multiple sizes
  • lazy loading
  • formats (e.g., WebP)
  • color space
  • compression tools
  • compression level (& options)
  • pre-sending heights

• layouts

  • general: redesigning
  • height matching
  • viewport height limiting
  • width matching
  • small device wrapping
  • background generation
  • appearing during scrolling problem

• storage

  • clogging git repo
  • GH pages limit << repo limit
  • separate hosting
  • CDN