Image formats rarely become a topic of discussion unless something breaks or slows down. As websites compete on speed, usability, and mobile performance, image optimization has moved from a technical ...

Look, I get it. WebP is the future and it has many advantages over PNG and JPEG. That doesn’t make it any less annoying when I accidentally download a WebP image and can’t do anything with it, though.

The internet has taught me I can be sure of three things: death, taxes, and file upload fields that won't accept WebP images. I'm not aware of any self-hostable solutions to the first two problems, ...