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I'm looking for articles, books, or research papers that explain how to design a file format from the ground up. I'm especially interested in defining the binary layout…
I'm looking for a tool that can help me "compile" a shell script into a more compact file that can still be executed by a regular shell interpreter.…
I'm working on generating an array of unsigned 32-bit integers (u32) that I want to cache in SQLite as a blob. Right now, I'm using Brotli for compression,…
I'm on the hunt for a Unix archiving tool that can handle file-level backups and generate a single, browsable compressed archive. I'm not looking for abstract backup solutions…
I have a massive JPEG photograph that's 45 MB and measures 7094 x 5504 pixels. I'm looking to significantly reduce the file size because it's too large to…
I have this really large file on my laptop that has a .crdownload extension. It's showing as 16 GB, but when I try to compress it into a…
I have a .fm file that's 2.1GB, and I'm wondering if there's a way to make it smaller. I want to avoid zipping the file and just need…
I set my D: drive to compress some time ago, and everything seemed fine until I tried to move a 100GB+ zip file (with pictures and videos). The…
I set up compression on my D: drive a while ago, and everything seemed fine until I tried to transfer a large zip file of over 100GB. The…
Hey everyone! I'm building a VB .Net WinForms app to archive project directories at work by copying files older than a year to a storage RAID. It works…
I'm looking for advice on the best way to handle very large JSON documents when sending them from my backend to the frontend. The documents I'm working with…
I'm wondering if it makes sense to compress responses from my server when I'm already using Cloudflare, which also handles compression. Will compressing responses reduce the payload size…
I'm trying to minimize the size of my JavaScript file while embedding some binary data into it. Are there any methods that are more efficient than base64? Ideally,…
I'm trying to zip multiple folders with several layers of subfolders that contain .jpg and .png files. My goal is to create a zip file for each folder,…