[TOOL] Batch image compression for Windows

multimedia codecs and compression are a few of my favorite areas of interest. i am also a web developer who happens to have a healthy prejudice against web services that wrap free tools but also have a live backend for some reason. (you know, things like online base64 codec services, exif stripping services, and others. javascript can do that locally, why is this webapp asking a server to do the work? is it storing a copy of this data? what is its terms of services and privacy policy?)

anyway,

how does this tool compare against free tools such as pngquant, pngcrush, imagemagick, and ffmpeg?
does this tool have any added value other than a thin wrapper around the tinify API?
why should one choose to use tinify at all? why risk exposing unpublished and proprietary assets to a third party?
was generative AI used to build png stomp? currently, its presentation strongly gives that impression.

IronTusk wrote:

I built it for my own game dev workflow. My renders and other art assets, mostly PNGs, were often much larger than I wanted, even after exporting them from Photoshop or other apps.

or, you could consider lossy compression at that point; codecs such as AV1, HEVC/H.265, ASTC, or BC7.

IronTusk wrote:

I wanted an easy way to compress a whole folder without processing each image manually.

it would be trivial to write such a script, add it to the toolchain and the asset pipeline. literally 15 minutes of work and would have never considered using a third party service, let alone involve TWO third parties...

man, the more i think about the existence of your png stomp, the more i want to defenestrate my computer lol.

a couple of bucks for the privilege to drag-and-drop files to another paid subscription service?

fucking ridiculous. get fucked.
(sure, they have a free tier, but you sure don't.)

get a better asset pipeline, and keep your slopware to yourself. nobody asked for this.

FAKE EDIT:
upon further review, i have independently reviewed my post and have determined that this is the appropriate level of reaction that one should have in the face of the sloppiest of slopware.

thank you for your attention to this matter, okthxbai

I’m still learning. This started as a way to learn how to make a UI in Python and build something. I also wanted to go through the process of releasing software so I could learn that part too. I wasn’t expecting ANY sales.

Your first post made a fair point about the privacy concerns of uploading assets to TinyPNG. I hadn’t considered that, and I appreciate you bringing it up.

I know this is a simple tool, and an experienced developer could make something similar pretty easily. I’m not claiming otherwise. But there’s a difference between pointing out its limitations and editing my post to call it “slopware” and telling me to “get fucked.”

That feels like an experienced developer picking on someone with far less experience who is trying to learn. I’m open to criticism. I don’t think the personal insults were necessary. I didn't expect to get any attention for this honestly.

You seem pretty knowledgeable with compression and codecs. You listed examples of software that do these things and you clearly know that mine doesn't. It's like to came over to my house just to take a dump on the carpet and leave the front door open.

You know the worst part of all this? Besides your humiliation and editing my post to look the way it does... Is that AI could have made the entire thing in probably 120 seconds. But I spent months trying to figure it out, forgetting eveything i learned everytime I took a break and came back to it. That's the real burn I guess.

So, despite your clear behavior issues, I apologize for infuriating you so much and I apologize to the community for having posted my slopware.

no, that's fair.

i overreacted. nobody deserves to be treated that way, and i have caused great harm to you and our community. for that, i apologize.

i have restored your original post. i'm leaving my post as-is, as a testament to how much of a miserable piece of shit i am. it would it be cowardly to try to hide it. (hiding the post, i mean... though, referring it the other way is pretty funny, too.)

...

hearing you talk about learning to build png stomp has reminded me of when i first started, and of some of my own terrible ideas i thought other developers would want... well, let's just say that it was for the best they never saw the light of day.

generative AI has made entire industries more approachable than ever. there is no place to escape the onslaught of AI generated content. i fear there is huge risk of simply giving in to generative AI-- to skip learning through struggling, to skip building scar tissue from trying and failing.

i don't deserve forgiveness, and hope you continue on your journey.