I just published a guide on automating image compression across macOS, Linux, and CI/CD workflows.
<a href="https://www.ramijames.com/thoughts/on-automating-image-compression" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://www.ramijames.com/thoughts/on-automating-image-compression</a>
Stop shipping unoptimized images. Automate it.
Image compression is one of those things everyone knows they should do… and then forgets once the app ships.
I wrote a practical guide on automating PNG &amp; JPG compression across:
<ul>
<li>macOS and Linux</li>
<li>Local dev environments</li>
<li>CI/CD pipelines (with a GitHub Actions example)</li>
</ul>
It covers:
<ul>
<li>pngquant vs jpegoptim (and when to use each)</li>
<li>Idempotent commands that won’t recompress images endlessly</li>
<li>How to make image optimization a default, not a cleanup task</li>
</ul>
If you care about performance, this should live in your repo TODAY and not your TODO list.

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A practical guide covering automated image compression for PNG and JPG files across macOS, Linux, and CI/CD pipelines. Explains tools like pngquant and jpegoptim, demonstrates idempotent compression commands to prevent endless recompression, and provides GitHub Actions examples to integrate image optimization into development workflows by default.

On automating image compression