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dmitshur on May 24, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: VNC over gif

One way to improve my Instant Background Uploader app [1] and make it actually instant would be by doing just that. Generate the image URL right away and start streaming it while the upload continues.

Instead of waiting for upload to finish before giving you a URL.

But you'd need control over the image hosting backend cuz ImageShack won't let you do it.

[1] https://github.com/shurcooL/InstantBackgroundUploader_OS-X https://github.com/shurcooL/InstantBackgroundUploader_Window...

jstanley on May 24, 2013 [–]

Interestingly, I already have an image uploading service (that only I use).

It may be a little complicated to make it do this, given how it works currently, but I might try it out.

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