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Nolan O'Brien

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Nolan O'Brien

@NolanOBrien

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Joined September 2011

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Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Oct 6, 2020
One year ago today, my daughter, Evelyn (3 yo at the time), was hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage. It feels like that event sent the entire world off kilter (and with the insanity of 2020, it's hard to not think that it really did).
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Dec 11, 2019
Starting today, Twitter will preserve JPEGs as they are encoded for upload on Twitter for Web. (Caveat, cannot have EXIF orientation) For example: the attached photo is actually a guetzli encoded JPEG at 97% quality with no chroma subsampling. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guetzli
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Jan 3, 2019
Thank you for all the feedback regarding the upcoming changes to PNG images on Twitter. The following amendment has been made: - If the image is a PNG that is 900 pixels or smaller in the longest dimension, that PNG will be left as-is.
devcommunity.x.com
Upcoming changes to PNG image support
Historically, Twitter has supported JPEG and PNG format images. Over the years, we’ve made improvements to our image pipeline moving towards faster load times while improving quality within reasona...
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Jan 4, 2019
Replying to @NolanOBrien
Here's a visual aid in how PNG will work on Twitter starting February 11th - PNG will be converted to JPEG 85% quality and tested: Twitter keeps smaller of the PNG and JPEG - PNGs less than 900 pixels in the longest dimension will be kept - PNG8 images will be kept
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Nov 15, 2022
It’s really strange to watch the incentive structures flip. Devs are calling out a CEO publicly, gaining instant notoriety, getting reprisal fired, and then leveraging their new network into a better gig. I don’t even know what to name it, but I can’t stop watching 😳
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Dec 11, 2019
Replying to @ferdychristant
Steps to check: 1) if it has orientation set to rotate the image, we will transcode 2) if it is over 4096 in any dimension, we will transcode 3) if it is over 5 MBs, we will transcode 4) if the compression is very inefficient (worse than 1 pixel per byte), we will transcode
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Jan 3, 2019
TFW you help colleagues save days worth of debugging by having the domain knowledge from 4 years ago to shortcut the answer and close the issue in minutes The value of extended tenure at a company can reap dividends. Companies need to put that into the compensation equation 🛠
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Jan 3, 2019
Replying to @NolanOBrien
This means: Pixel art should all be able to stay as-is. Art and photos scaled down to prevent theft will stay as-is. Small doodles and samples will stay as-is. Games that have been built w/ PNG cards will stay as-is. Avatars will all stay as-is. No more pixel trick.
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Jun 24, 2020
I did it! I won the lottery! My latest Apple Feedback bug report got lucky number FB7777777! 🕺
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Jan 3, 2019
Replying to @NolanOBrien
Here's the chart from the announcement twittercommunity.com/t/upcoming-cha…
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Mar 16, 2018
As an replacement for Twitter for Mac, I am now happily using mobile.twitter.com via @googlechrome's new beta Desktop PWAs feature. #TwitterForMac via PWA! 1 of 3
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Nov 13, 2020
After 7 years (this week) of working at Twitter with incredible colleagues, it is time to say goodbye. I gave my everything for the users of this strange but unique app, and just hope that my impact has benefited someone to make the world a better place somehow. 🌍
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Jan 3, 2019
Replying to @NolanOBrien
This was truly a community effort spearheaded by artists and developers that use Twitter. We hope this can support the talents that gather on Twitter while we continue to strive to deliver images to users around the world.
Nolan O'Brien
@NolanOBrien
Dec 11, 2019
Replying to @NolanOBrien
And just to be clear. We preserve the bitmap encoding, not the metadata. That, as always, is stripped and discarded.