Making Instagram.com faster

Over the years Instagram (as a product) grew a lot. With more features to show, their web experience began to degrade. In a series of (upcoming) posts they’re covering what they have done to improve performance. In this first part they cover script preloading and image prefetching, reducing the loading time of the “feed page” …

@dailyhomealone, an Instagram bot posting one frame from Home Alone per day

Tim Broddin has created @dailyhomealone, an Instagram bot which does a daily post containing one frame – taken at a 5 seconds interval – from Home Alone. Along with that he has done a writeup on how he created the bot. This paragraph resonated quite well with me: A lot has happened to the openness …

Instagram Terminal Feed

Forget about that Instagram for Windows 95, and go for the real deal: Instagram on the CLI: Sometimes checking your instagram during work is kind of strange, so why not check your instagram inside your terminal? OK… I know checking this during work is still strange… 😑 To be honest, I did this just for …

The Broccoli Tree: A Parable

Patrik Svedberg had been taking photos of a particular and unique tree which he named “The Broccoli Tree”. He posted the photos on an Instagram account dedicated to the tree. And then one day, he noticed something was wrong with the tree. This video by Seth Radley tells the story. To share something is to …

Implementing Instagram Filters and Image Editing in React Native

William Candillon recreated some parts of Instagram’s editing process (namely the filter, rotate, and crop steps) in React Native. The filters are implemented with GL-React: Gl-react offers a really efficient paradigm for integrating React and OpenGL together. The library enables you to easily build scenes using React composability. For instance, consider an image with two …

Louise Delage on Instagram

Starting August 1st, Louise Delage has been posting photos to her Instagram account. The 25 year old Parisian collected over 50,000 likes in just eight weeks. But did her followers even know what they were liking? Like my addiction A video posted by Louise Delage (@louise.delage) on Sep 22, 2016 at 2:07am PDT The end …

Getting Stories from the Instagram API

Alec Garcia: It took Instagram 2 years to build their first web app, and then another 3 years to implement web search. It will probably be a while, if at all, before Instagram brings Stories to the web, so I thought I’d do it myself. The result is Chrome IG Story: Chrome IG Story is …

Upload directly from Lightroom to Instagram with LR/Instagram

LR/Instagram is an unofficial publish plugin for Lightroom, allowing you to post photos directly to your Instagram account. Simply install the plugin, add new service in Lightroom Publishing Manager and authenticate with your Instagram account. LR/Instagram – Lightroom Publish Plugin for Instagram →