As developers, we ve all been there. You re shipping a feature, you need to deliver images, and you reach for the standard industry "media cloud." Everything is great until you look at the source code of your own application.
Your clean, semantic project structure is now littered with URLs that look like this:
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The auto-optimization on upload is genuinely handy, shaved noticeable weight off a few test images without me touching any settings. Nice to see something focused on dev ergonomics instead of bloated dashboards.