It’s been soooo long since I last updated this blog, and that disappoints me. I wonder if it’s worth keeping it online as it takes money, money I need. But I’ve already paid for another year…So yeah.
Anyways, I’d like to take a moment and address reader feedback (yay). So this reader from India asked if he can get a PDF compilation of my notes. I asked him to download the JPEG from the site instead, and there’s a few reasons for this.
My modern handwritten notes are scanned at very high resolution, higher than what a human retina can process: 600 dpi. Kinda like music masters. Thus the filesizes are huge for the relatively small content. My full stash of notes currently sits at…5 GB
The JPEG’s have been processed to 220 dpi on the site, and it is JPEG’s that this site uses to render the images and not PDF pages. This is the around the same value as the DPI of a Retina MacBook. It’s smaller than the DPI’s of say the top smartphones, but I think this is a good compromise. I have actually been trying to downsize the scans to 460 (ala top smartphones), but PDFPen broke what was a working feature related to this, and I’ve given up since. Maybe in the future I’ll just scan at 460 dpi.
Now if someone wants to pay me for my stuff, that’s a different issue altogether! This site is more in the red than a non-profit!
