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stgnon Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust

> so i wrote a gzip decompressor from scratch

After skimming through the author's Rust code, it appears to be a fairly straightforward port of puff.c (included in the zlib source): https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/develop/contrib/puff/puf...

stgnon A new PNG spec

> and it's too bad that JPEG-XL lacks such a filter

JPEG XL has an edge-preserving filter ("EPF") for the purpose of reducing ringing.

stgnon Mitmproxy 8

One of the things I like about mitmproxy is how easy it is to develop and use addons. You just pass a script file to it. How would you achieve such painless extensibility if it were written in Go?