Lossy is a scary word but when it comes to images it provides dramatic savings & minimal loss in quality via @sergeyche http://t.co/Idddi9Ac

Cross-platform ImageOptim alternative.

Comparison of "Asset managers for combining/compressing JavaScript/CSS and for versioning your media files."

"There's a little-watched video on Maroon Five's YouTube channel which documents the torturous, tedious process of crafting an instantly forgettable mainstream radio hit. It's fourteen minutes of elegantly dishevelled chaps sitting in leather sofas, playing $15,000 vintage guitars next to $200,000 studio consoles, staring at notepads and endlessly discussing how little they like the track (called Makes Me Wonder), and how it doesn't have a chorus. Even edited down, the tedium is mind-boggling as they play the same lame riff over and over and over again. At one point, singer Adam Levine says: "I'm sick of trying to engineer songs to be hits." But that's exactly he proceeds to do."

"I’m interested in looking at the loudness for the recordings of a number of artists to see how wide-spread this loudness war really is. To do this I used the Echo Nest remix API and a bit of Python to collect and plot loudness for a set of recordings. I did two experiments. First I looked at the loudness for music by some of my favorite or well known artists. Then I looked at loudness over a large collection of music."

"A non-profit music industry organization campaigning to give artists back the choice to release more dynamic records."

"Optimizes images [...] by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations." Be interesting to see how this stacks up against smush.it.

"This beautifier can process your messy or compacted javascript, making it all neatly and consistently formatted and readable." Handy for making sense of minified scripts.

Does about a billion things to optimize sites. Tempting but not sure how much I'd trust this; feels like a sledgehammer option.

"A tunable packaging solution for Javascript and CSS which allows for rapid development of resources in separate module files."

"The most efficient way to serve compressed JavaScript is to first run your code through a JavaScript compressor that shrinks variable and argument names, and then serve the resulting code using gzip compression."

"The loudness war, what many audiophiles refer to as an assault on music (and ears), has been an open secret of the recording industry for nearly the past two decades and has garnered more attention in recent years as CDs have pushed the limits of loudnes

"jscsscomp is a PHP script what compress JavaScript and CSS files when they are requested from the server."

PNGGauntlet is a .NET program that uses Ken Silverman's PNGOut to optimize PNG files.