Doing Things Wrong

WordPress is a PIG

WordPress image handling is completely insane, and they don't ask and they don't give you a choice. Not only does it idiotically generate image titles from EXIF data ( usually the camera name! ) but it generates masses of extra files, wasting disk space, clogging up the server, and making any sort of manual image management near-impossible. What a behind-the-scenes disaster.

I had written some code into my theme to stop at least some of this madness, but the new version of WordPress apparently found a way around it. So I re-wrote it, and attached it to the back-end on every admin page load. Fight that, you PIG !!!

All I want is the original image file at whatever size I see fit to upload it, and an uncropped thumbnail that fits in 200x200 box for the media library. This makes the media library nice and snappy, but still gives a useful display of each image. Anything else WordPress wants to do is GARBAGE.


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A subject so simple you hardly even consider it, yet really very mysterious. Just what is the roughness of sandpaper, and the relation to the number on the package?

Here's a plot of some numbers I found online: sandpaper "grit" versus actual micron size. Interesting to see what size scratches you are taking out ( or putting in. ) The curve starts at 320, which is the coarsest grit that might be considered part of the finishing process. For final finishing like orange-peel removal, I start with 1500 and work up from there, I find that even 1000 leaves scratches that are difficult to remove.

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