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Jon SneyersJon Sneyers Jon Sneyers Hi! I'm Jon, and this is my home page. Welcome! Bio I was born in 1981, in Leuven, Belgium. I have a PhD in Computer Science from KU Leuven. Since 2016, I work for Cloudinary, doing research related to image processing and compression. Currently I live in Asse, Belgium, with my better half and three wonderful daughters. Image Compression JPEG XL In JPEG, I co-chair the JPEG XL adhoc group. JPEG XL is based on a combination of Google's PIK and Cloudinary's FUIF. Free and open-source JPEG XL reference software is available. FLIF Together with Pieter Wuille, I created the Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF). Check out my blog posts on the Cloudinary blog. Food I've been a vegetarian for about 25 years. Not that I particularly like animals, or want to save the planet (that would be nice, but I don't think consumer boycotts are the best way to do that). It's just that to my sense of gastronomy, the concept of putting animal corpses on a plate has never been appetizing, even when the carcass has been cooked or otherwise processed. Politics I am a democratic socialist, inspired by the political analyses of a.o. Marx and Trotsky. Since 2003, I'm a member of the Belgian section LSP-PSL of International Socialist Alternative (ISA). Music I amateurishly play the piano. I also make stuff in Amiga-style trackers. Some songs I wrote: Pianofortis [pdf] [ly,midi] (2009) Revolution Now (2006) Impact theme (2002) Advancing Backwards (2000) Black Monday (1997) Kids Nette 21 Feb 2012 Lola 11 Sept 2013 Clara 1 July 2015 Religion I'm a non-militant atheist. Games Some games I wrote for the Pandora: NanoLemmings (2014) NubNub! (2013) Microbes (2012) Old stuff Here are some links to old/outdated pages: My old home page (last updated in 2014) ZWASSM, my old blog (last updated in 2014) Consequent Links (political blog, last updated in 2015) CHRiSM and APOPCALEAPS Book I wrote a book. It's an epic optimistic-dystopian feminist pornographic hard-SF adventure, written in Dutch (~95k words). If you're a publisher (or screenwriter) and interested in translating (or adapting) it, please contact me. Contact The easiest way to contact me is via Twitter (@jonsneyers). Alternatively, you can email me (jon@cloudinary.com if it's related to image compression, jon.sneyers@gmail.com otherwise). I have accounts on linkedin and facebook but rarely check them. Links Comics xkcd abstruse goose perry bible fellowship smbc Geekery bit-player shtetl-optimized dijkstra archive nerdland Misc no angry young man rms eric portis This page was made with a plain old text editor, just me typing some HTML and CSS. If anything is wrong with it, or can be improved, feel free to let me know.enen1729561861https://sneyers.info