Terence Eden’s Blog

The Pull Request Hack is Fucking Magic

@edentgithub SuperTinyIcons · 9 comments · 350 words · read ~15,260 times.

Rows of icons - each one has the size printed next to it.

I don't have time to keep up with all the daft Open Source projects I release. I wish my skill and my energy was as wide as my ambition. Several years ago, I came across Felix Geisendörfer's Pull Request Hack. The premise is simple - if people are making decent Pull Requests to your project then you should give them commit access. It sounds mad, I know. But it has worked really well in my case. I launched Super Tiny Icons six years ago. It was surprisingly popular and lots of people seemed …

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Three small tips for shrinking SVG images

@edentimages linux NaBloPoMo SuperTinyIcons svg tips · 8 comments · 300 words · read ~798 times.

I work on the SuperTinyIcons project. Our aim is to make pixel perfect SVG icons in under 1KB. Because SVG can be quite verbose, every single redundant byte we can eliminate is a byte we can use in drawing. Here are three quick tips for shaving a few bytes off an SVG. Decimal Magic SVG co-ordinates can have decimal precision, like: 123.456. But what about co-ordinates which are less than one? 0.123 can be rewritten as .123 - we can drop the 0! These two sed commands will turn 0. to . and…

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