Debugging image color profiles is hard. You can't trust your eyes in this matter, as the image rendering depends on multiple factors. At least the operation system, browser or image viewer software and monitor influence the resulting image colors ...

When you write your next CarrierWave uploader, consider processing your images with libvips instead of ImageMagick.

Reasons for libvips

There are several **upsi...

Conversion

ImageMagick can convert SVGs to raster image formats.

Example for PNG:

convert input.svg output.png

If the SVG has a size of 24x24 (viewBox="0 0 24 24"), the resulting PNG will also have a size of 24x24.

Resizing...

When you need test images, instead of using services like lorempixel or placehold.it you may generate test images yourself.

Here we build a simple SVG image and wrap it into a data: URI. Al...

If you need to convert an SVG source to PS or EPS, the most common suggestion on the interwebs is to use Inkscape from the commandline.
Inkscape is a fairly resource-heavy tool with [lots of dependencies](https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/inkscape...

For webpages to load fast it's recommended to optimize images. Ideally an image's file size should be as small as possible while still being of decent quality. This card demonstrates two command line tools for image optimization

Use identify to...

The way MySQL's FULLTEXT tokenizer splits text into word tokens might not always be what you need. E.g. it splits a word at period characters.

Since the tokenizer has near-zero configuration options (minimum word length and stopwords list), you n...

You can scale background images in CSS to the container size using background-size (Demo).

Commonly, we use contain or cover because we want to preserve the ima...

While upgrading CarrierWave from version 0.11.x to 3.x, we encountered some very nasty fails. Below are the basic changes you need to perform and some behavior you may eventually run into when upgrading your application. This aims to save you some...

whatsmydns.net is an online service that allows you to instantly perform a DNS lookup to check a hostnames current IP Address and other DNS information against a selection of random name servers around the world. This is especially useful to check...