Sahadat Husain

Founder and developer of Blinkimg (blinkimg.com), an image compressor and converter with an API. I write about image pipelines, AVIF, WebP, sharp, Pillow and page speed.

Joined on Jun 2, 2025 https://blinkimg.com

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Founder at Blinkimg

Sahadat Husain

Nov 1

Why image encodes belong in a queue worker, with BullMQ

#node #bullmq #performance #webdev

5 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 31

An image upload endpoint in Fastify: five checks before decode

#node #fastify #security #webdev

6 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 30

Compress images from your AI editor with an MCP server

#ai #mcp #webdev #images

5 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 29

Serve AVIF or WebP by Accept header, and the Vary header trap

#node #webdev #webperf #images

5 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 28

Accepting HEIC uploads in Node: what sharp can and cannot decode

#node #javascript #webdev #images

5 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 27

Progressive vs baseline JPEG with mozjpeg: the byte difference

#node #javascript #images #webperf

4 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 26

WebP lossless vs near-lossless vs lossy for UI screenshots

#node #webdev #images #webperf

6 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 25

Chroma subsampling 4:2:0 vs 4:4:4 for screenshots with text

#node #python #images #webperf

6 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 24

Stripping metadata without breaking colour: keep the ICC profile

#python #node #images #webdev

6 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 23

limitInputPixels and MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS: pixel caps, tested

#node #python #security #images

5 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 22

Detect image formats from magic bytes in Node and Python

#node #python #security #webdev

6 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 21

Compress images from Node.js with the Blinkimg API and fetch

#node #javascript #webdev #images

5 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 20

Generating srcset widths with sharp: bytes per width, measured

#node #webdev #performance #images

5 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 19

sharp vs Pillow at the same JPEG quality: why the bytes differ

#python #node #webdev #images

5 min read

Sahadat Husain

Oct 16

AVIF in sharp: what each effort level costs in time and bytes

#node #webdev #performance #images

5 min read

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Why image encodes belong in a queue worker, with BullMQ

An image upload endpoint in Fastify: five checks before decode

Compress images from your AI editor with an MCP server

Serve AVIF or WebP by Accept header, and the Vary header trap

Accepting HEIC uploads in Node: what sharp can and cannot decode

Progressive vs baseline JPEG with mozjpeg: the byte difference

WebP lossless vs near-lossless vs lossy for UI screenshots

Chroma subsampling 4:2:0 vs 4:4:4 for screenshots with text

Stripping metadata without breaking colour: keep the ICC profile

limitInputPixels and MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS: pixel caps, tested

Detect image formats from magic bytes in Node and Python

Compress images from Node.js with the Blinkimg API and fetch

Generating srcset widths with sharp: bytes per width, measured

sharp vs Pillow at the same JPEG quality: why the bytes differ

AVIF in sharp: what each effort level costs in time and bytes