Aleks Haecky – författare

If you want to attract and retain users in the booming mobile services market, you need a quick-loading app that won’t churn through their data plans. The key is to compress multimedia and other data into smaller files, but finding the right method is tricky. This witty book helps you understand how data compression algorithms work—in theory and practice—so you can choose the best solution among all the available compression tools.

With tables, diagrams, games, and as little math as possible, authors Colt McAnlis and Aleks Haecky neatly explain the fundamentals. Learn how compressed files are better, cheaper, and faster to distribute and consume, and how they’ll give you a competitive edge.

Learn why compression has become crucial as data production continues to skyrocketKnow your data, circumstances, and algorithm options when choosing compression toolsExplore variable-length codes, statistical compression, arithmetic numerical coding, dictionary encodings, and context modelingExamine tradeoffs between file size and quality when choosing image compressorsLearn ways to compress client- and server-generated data objectsMeet the inventors and visionaries who created data compression algorithms

If you want to attract and retain users in the booming mobile services market, you need a quick-loading app that won’t churn through their data plans. The key is to compress multimedia and other data into smaller files, but finding the right method is tricky. This witty book helps you understand how data compression algorithms work—in theory and practice—so you can choose the best solution among all the available compression tools.

With tables, diagrams, games, and as little math as possible, authors Colt McAnlis and Aleks Haecky neatly explain the fundamentals. Learn how compressed files are better, cheaper, and faster to distribute and consume, and how they’ll give you a competitive edge.

Learn why compression has become crucial as data production continues to skyrocketKnow your data, circumstances, and algorithm options when choosing compression toolsExplore variable-length codes, statistical compression, arithmetic numerical coding, dictionary encodings, and context modelingExamine tradeoffs between file size and quality when choosing image compressorsLearn ways to compress client- and server-generated data objectsMeet the inventors and visionaries who created data compression algorithms

Sidney's most liberating memory is of a sharp and bloody knife.One night, in a dark parking lot with police sirens approaching, Sidney sorts through the shattered fragments of their life—from childhood wounds to adult reckonings—in search of who they are and how they got here.Assembling Sidney: Escape is a dark, introspective psychological novel about growing up, breaking apart, and remaking the self. It blends gritty realism with moments of dreamlike intensity, following a complex and vulnerable protagonist through family fractures, manipulative attachments, enduring friendship, buried identity, and the cost of liberation.This is not a story where every hardship has a knowable reason or every act of perseverance earns a simple reward. Sidney finds revenge, freedom, and the possibility of a life on their own terms—but each carries a price.Raw, intimate, and emotionally honest, Assembling Sidney: Escape explores emotional survival, buried gender identity, and the difficult work of assembling a self from dark memories.For readers who like character-driven literary fiction, psychological realism, LGBTQ+ themes, and stories about people who have felt different, lost, or unseen.