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Check out the full code repo Try out the demo I’m a developer turned instructional designer. In fact, I’ve been coding professionally since graduate school in the mid-1980s and have worked through many iterations of delivering apps to users over the decades. It just keeps getting to be…

Modern websites and mobile apps frequently showcase images of various dimensions, sometimes varying the graphics, resolutions, and look and feel for different devices (desktop, mobile, etc.); and revamping the graphics with upgrades. A key benefit Cloudinary offers is an easy, intuitive, and flexible process of modifying images. You…

To me, one of the most exciting aspects in a company’s lifecycle in which to participate is the product roadmap. As a customer of numerous services and from my many years of working in Customer Success, visibility into a company’s product plans reinforces my trust in it and my affinity…

Happy New Year, folks! As a relentless technology advocate and a developer who’s worked on media transformation for numerous projects over the years, I decided in late 2019 to go on a 25-day journey of sharing my learnings on Twitter. The aim was to show my audience the options available…

Even though the image format animated GIFs are gaining popularity, their file size is usually large, causing slow loading and incurring high bandwidth costs. Besides, the GIF format is old and not optimized for modern video clips. The developer’s job of effecting fast loading of animated GIFs and delivering…

Wouldn’t it be cool to have the powers of Gatsby rendering performant pages and serving optimized and transformed media files from Cloudinary on the same site? That’s now a reality: I’m excited to introduce two Gatsby plugins on Cloudinary: Gatsby-Source-Cloudinary and Gatsby-Transformer-Cloudinary. Here’s the background. Given that the…

Oftentimes, developers and architects must supplement their project documents with diagrams, charts, sequence drawings, and the like. Instead of creating them with traditional software like Microsoft Visio, I searched for a more developer-friendly alternative and found a project with just the right tool, which I was able to integrate with…

In the web-design arena, what you don’t see can hurt you. Worse, it could damage your brand’s reputation, let alone hurt the bottom line. I’m talking about images. Loading img files can consume a lot of bandwidth. Viewing them incurs a cost on your and your visitors’ part. In fact,…

As a photographer and a marketer, nothing excites me more than a campaign that utilizes beautiful, powerful imagery to tell a story and connect with an audience. My childhood dreams of traveling the world for National Geographic live on. Like Dorothea Lange and so many inspiring photographers before me, I…