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This is my personal blog where I post my ramblings, findings, things I find interesting, and things I think the internet might find interesting or useful.

AVIF, the best modern replacement for GIF (and all other web images)

2025-07-22

The GIF format is terrible. The only reason it’s still used at all, is because it’s widely supported, and it’s often treated special as the only image format that can be animated. In this blog post, I go over the problems with GIF, and why I think the new format AVIF is the perfect successor to GIF in the modern world.

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Hello World!

2024-08-06

Welcome to my blog! Here, I write about my ramblings, findings, things I find interesting, and things I think the internet might find interesting or useful.