pretty-grauniad-thumbnails

Created for the Guardian Fastly Hack day. I aimed to improve the rendering of our social media post sharing thumbnail images. Namely, I wanted to add some details about the article content to the image itself to make it clearer to users what they are clicking on.

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The project runs on Fastly’s Compute@Edge

Useful commands:

• fastly compute serve --skip-verification --watch
• fastly compute deploy

It also uses the excellent image and imageproc libraries for rust to do the image manipulation.

The content is served through the Guardians' CAPI (content api) infra.

Here's what they look like now:

And the result of the hack:

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