Show HN: Image Compression and Resizing Tool When I'm working on my niche sites, I often have the problem that I need to resize my images and compress them so I get the best performance. For my use-case I needed 2 different tools + renaming them manually to get the image I want to upload onto my niche site. I'm a programmer and hate tedious and repeating work, so I decided to make a tool for my workflow: https://www.canvar.io Right now the functionality is very basic: You can upload an image, select an output format, resize and rename it. When you click on "Compress & Download", the image gets compressed and - surprise - downloaded to your computer. Now I would love your feedback on the tool. What can I make better? What did I do good, what sucks? July 13, 2022 at 12:56PM
Women Pioneers at Muni: Adeline Svendsen and Muni’s First Newsletter By Jeremy Menzies To close out Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at one woman whose work to bring Muni staff together in the late 1940s created a legacy that lives on to this day. Adeline “Addy” Svendsen was founding editor of Muni’s first internal newsletter, “ Trolley Topics .” Adeline Svendsen sits at her desk in the Geneva Carhouse office building in this 1949 shot. Trolley Topics was a new venture when it started in February 1946. As Svendsen wrote in the first issue it was created, “to bring a little fun, a little news, and a lot of good will to all our fellow employees in the Railway.” Just two years prior in 1944, Muni merged with the Market Street Railway Company, expanding the small municipal operation into the largest transit provider in the city with hundreds of employees, vehicles of every shape and size, and dozens of facilities scattered across town. The newsletter was meant to help unite ...
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