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Conquering jsDelivr, GitHub & Image Optimization Like a Caveman Hacker

From .png to .webp without breaking a sweat (or my site) So here’s the scoop: I’ve been quietly at war with the bloat of modern websites. Too many blogs these days are 98% auto-playing videos, 1.5% cookie banners, and 0.5% actual content. Not on my prehistoric patch of the internet. I recently went full caveman-dev-mode and implemented jsDelivr into my blog. Why? Because Cloudflare Pages-where my blog currently lives doesn’t give me a lot of storage space. But GitHub, on the other hand, is practically throwing storage at me. Combine that with jsDelivr’s ability to serve content from GitHub at lightning speed? We’ve got ourselves a recipe for streamlined, modern cave-blogging. ...

August 4, 2025 · 5 min · 961 words · Dave Lowe