MAZANOKE is a simple image optimizer that runs in your browser, works offline, and keeps your images private without ever leaving your device.

Created for everyday people and designed to be easily shared with family and friends, it serves as an alternative to questionable “free” online tools.

See how you can easily self-host it here:
https://github.com/civilblur/mazanoke

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Highlights from v1.1.5 (view full release note)

The focus of this release has been to improve the core foundation and file format support, but I’m planning to expand with more features further down the road in order to improve the usefulness of MAZANOKE (while still keeping the UX simple).

  • Support basic authentication for Docker setups.
  • TIFF file format support.
    • Convert from TIFF → JPG, PNG, WebP, ICO
  • ICO file format support.
    • Convert from and to an ICO image.

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I also feel incredibly honored that MAZANOKE was recently featured on several of my favorite communities:

It’s been incredible to see the growth of the user base, with over 54,000 docker pulls for the previous release alone, and now reaching over 1400 stars! I never anticipated this at all and I’m truly grateful for the support!

I’d like to thank everyone who helped spread the word, whether through starring, word of mouth, community engagement, blog posts, or by packaging it for things like Unraid and NixOS, and everything in between!

  • verstra@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Wait, how does this work in-browser? Does it send the photos to the local server where image magick does the job, or is it using javascript to read/write images, or does it contain WASM to do that?

    • verstra@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      It’s JavaScript.

      And it is slow, but not as slow as I expected it to be. I’ve optimized a photo I’ve taken with my DSLR, 6.3MB, 24MP, JPEG. It has taken ~50sec on this phone, in Firefox.

      I know, it’s a phone, but also, my phone can and does save, optimize, and apply filters to such images in <1sec.

      • verstra@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        If you are interested (and can pull together a bit of funding) I can look into how we could do this optimization in WASM.

        • lent9004@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          7·
          3 days ago

          Yes, it’s all JavaScript and essentially relies on the Canvas API to compress the images, so the performance is heavily dependent of your device and browser. I haven’t delved into WASM yet, but it would indeed open up doors for improvements, such a more file format support and more intelligent optimization. At the moment, working with canvas keeps things a lot more straightforward, however.

          There is no funding I can provide at all (I’ve received 2 donations so far, which I’m very grateful for!). I just do this on my spare time, which I have a lot less of these days. I initially created MAZANOKE as a drop-in replacement for family and friends, specifically to those who tend to use questionable or ad-bloated online tools.

          • verstra@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            If you do delve into improving the performance, I suggest using Rust and no_std crates for dealing with images, such as https://docs.rs/zune-jpeg/latest/zune_jpeg/.

            It would probably take some time to get it working, but it would probably increase performance and support any format you can find a crate for. But it does not seem like it’s worth it.

            I’ll add this to my list of “things I might to when I don’t have a side project to waste my time on” :D

            • lent9004@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              Thanks for your kind words, I tried putting some effort into making the interface a bit more fun and interactive, so thanks for noticing!

              In regards to Rust, I’ve been interested in learning more about it, but I’ve not had time yet, so it’s been in a “soon ™” limbo. As I’m comfortable with JavaScript/JS frameworks, sticking with JS was a quick way to get started without much friction.

              • verstra@programming.devEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                Rust will take time - it has a few concept that I haven’t seen in javascript/python/java/C++ family of languages. But it gives “zero-cost abstractions” i.e. a way to write high-level code without any performance penalty. And it has great tooling and WASM support, which is what you’d be after.

                But as I said, it is all not worth it now, just for this application.

                • lent9004@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  That’s still very interesting to hear, maybe I’ll look into it for my next (simpler) project just to try it out.