Hajime-lqip

The idea to implement some kind of LQIP (Low Quality Image Placeholder) came about as part of working on supporting type: image posts on this here website. I didn’t want to deal with generating thumbnails (though in retrospect this would’ve been a simpler approach) nor, of course, make you load the entire size of the image by just browsing the index. I read about a similar, albeit much more fucking elaborate approach in a post titled Image placeholders in pure CSS — or: Defying gods with math and color . And so, armed with the idea but having forgotten any and all details about the implementation – I’ve decided to roll my own. What I need it to do¶ As the general idea is to have an annual photo grid, where each (relatively) tiny square is an image entry that is processed by Hajime upon generation, it makes sense to generate the LQIP in the same pass. Naturally, I prefer a process that is not too heavy or resource intensive, and that doesn’t require creating a bunch of extra static…