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Anisse<p>Here is the magic incantation I've found creates the best animated gifs for use as emojis in Slack. Powered by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kornel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kornel</span></a></span> 's <a href="https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">gifski</a>:</p><pre><code>ffmpeg -i INPUT.gif -vf "format=yuv420p" -f yuv4mpegpipe - | gifski -W 128 -H 128 -Q 55 -o OUTPUT-compressed.gif -<br></code></pre><p>Make quality <code>-Q</code> vary until size is just below ~128k. For some reason, Slack's limit is not exactly 217, but not 128000 either.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ffmpeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ffmpeg</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/gifski" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gifski</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/gifsicle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gifsicle</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SlackMoji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlackMoji</span></a></p>
Jim Spath<p>I heard the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SAPCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SAPCommunity</span></a> site was running a contest for "funniest code mistake" you've made, then thought, oh, right, career-limiting moves we called them. Then I recognized that bash command lines <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CLI</span></a> were coding as much as ABAP busniess processes, and dug up the animated selfie I created with <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/GIFsicle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIFsicle</span></a> (in 2010ish).<br>As it turns out, the author is also out, and their faculty bio page is to die for (Tenure for the win).</p><p><a href="https://community.sap.com/t5/my-most-hilarious-coding-failure/licking-the-gif-cycle/cns-p/13733447" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">community.sap.com/t5/my-most-h</span><span class="invisible">ilarious-coding-failure/licking-the-gif-cycle/cns-p/13733447</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">lcdf.org/gifsicle/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Khurram Wadee ✅<p>I’ve done a couple of <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/AnimatedGifs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnimatedGifs</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/sunsets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sunsets</span></a> before and the conditions seemed right today. The program I used was the <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> commands <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/convert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>convert</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/gifsicle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gifsicle</span></a> to reduce the image size which produces no <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/aliasing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aliasing</span></a> artefacts that you can get with something like <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Gimp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gimp</span></a>. Still, you can see how the <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sun</span></a> sets at an oblique angle at this <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/latitude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>latitude</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/MyWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MyWork</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/MyPhoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MyPhoto</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/CCBYSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCBYSA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/DSLR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DSLR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Nikon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nikon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/D7000" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>D7000</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Spring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spring</span></a></p>
skunksarebetter<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mtPaint" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mtPaint</span></a> is an advanced <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/raster" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>raster</span></a> image <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/editor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>editor</span></a>.</p><p>mtPaint is a lightweight graphical image editor providing numerous tools for editing <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/pixelart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pixelart</span></a>, like a zoomed out preview, pattern brushes, a grid, palette management, and dithered gradients. mtPaint also features animation tools with easy <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GIF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GIF</span></a> export using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Gifsicle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gifsicle</span></a>, alongside support for graphics tablets, scripting, and general image manipulation.</p><p>Website 🔗️: <a href="http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">mtpaint.sourceforge.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>apt 📦️: mtpaint</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>free</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fossmendations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fossmendations</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a></p>
skunksarebetter<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Gifsicle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gifsicle</span></a> is a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GIF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GIF</span></a> manipulation program.</p><p>Gifsicle is a tool that manipulates GIF files in various ways. Gifsicle can both assemble and disassemble GIFs from/into image files. Gifsicle can also optimize files by adding interlacing, optimizing the color palette, only encoding changed pixels, etc. Gifsicle can also de-optimize files to make them easier to manipulate with other programs.</p><p>Website 🔗️: <a href="https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">lcdf.org/gifsicle/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>apt 📦️: gifsicle</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>free</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fossmendations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fossmendations</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>compression</span></a></p>