Engineering blog

In-depth notes on how svgbuddy.net converts images in the browser—no upload architecture, canvas pipelines, and SVG markup cleanup.

• Designing Batch Client-Side Image Pipelines Without a Server

  Queue design, memory limits, object URLs, and ZIP packaging patterns for multi-file conversion entirely in the browser.

  2026-03-18 · 6 min read

• SVG Optimizer Internals: String-Level Minification

  What SVG optimizers actually remove—comments, metadata, precision—and how to avoid breaking animations or scripts when minifying markup.

  2026-03-15 · 7 min read

• SVG to PNG: Canvas Rasterization, DPI, and Transparency

  Understand how SVG markup becomes PNG pixels using the Canvas 2D API, device pixel ratio scaling, alpha compositing, and export quality trade-offs.

  2026-03-12 · 8 min read

• How In-Browser PNG to SVG Tracing Works

  A technical walkthrough of client-side raster-to-vector tracing: downsampling, palette quantization, contour extraction, and SVG path generation without a server.

  2026-03-10 · 9 min read