Dylan Beattie
dylanbeattie.net · Personal blog · on HN since 2015
Dylan Beattie, a software developer and conference speaker, writes about distributed systems, programming culture, .NET, and music tooling.
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Most-shared posts
- 1The Laws of Distributed Systems3 people · 8 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 2The problem with "vibe coding"2 people · 138 points · first shared 2025 · 150 comments on HN
- 3Java was not underhyped in 1997 (2021)2 people · 90 points · first shared 2025 · 104 comments on HN
- 4So you want to speak at software conferences?1 people · 239 points · first shared 2025 · 131 comments on HN
- 5Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022)1 people · 143 points · first shared 2025 · 37 comments on HN
- 6Bring back alt.NET1 people · 60 points · first shared 2017 · 34 comments on HN
- 7We're Gonna Build a Framework1 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 8Email vs. Capitalism: A Story About Why We Can't Have Nice Things1 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 9The Mystery of the Chinese Junk1 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 10ASP.NET Core 1.0 High Performance1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 11There’s a problem with the phalange1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 12It Works on My Machine1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 13Choosing the Right Path1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 14About That Meetup.com Announcement1 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 15NET/C# devs: what should we cover at the Progressive.NET Tutorials 2017?1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
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cabirum · 2015-10-27
> best results with Triangle also known as bilinear interpolation
Just no. Use bilinear only when you need very fast resizing and don't care about quality much. Lanczos and sinc [1] filters are considered "best" for wide range of images (no visible blurring or sharpening, almost no moire effects), but they are also among slower ones. Use Catmull-Rom when images need to be sharpened a bit. (See [2] for comparison and scripts) There's also faster and less buggy fork named GraphicsMagick [3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinc_filter
[2] http://www.dylanbeattie.net/magick/filters/result.html
[3] http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
douche · 2017-05-06
English language pluralization rules are almost impossible to systemize in a way that always makes sense
http://www.dylanbeattie.net/2017/04/theres-problem-with-phalange.html