Jeremy Gollehon's Public Library

My job as CEO, I now realize, is easy. All I have to do is recruit superstars. Of course, it's more than that: They need fair salaries, meaningful equity stakes, and most importantly, the authority to make decisions. To make this happen, I had to accept three difficult principles: 1. As a leader, I have meaningful weaknesses which will become an obstacle to growth; 2. the company is better off hiring those weaknesses, which means I need to hire people better than me and then give them equity and power; and 3. although I love my job, my goal ultimately is to make the company safe for my departure. It may take 10 years, but I must work toward that every day.

The funny part is that once I accepted these principles, it gave me the humility I needed to inspire key recruits to join. In their eyes, I saw not only excitement for the equity we offered, but the earnest belief that they would be entrusted to do their jobs with my counsel, if they sought it, but without unwanted meddling. By accepting and acknowledging my own weaknesses, I was able to prove the naysayers wrong and hire winners from both worlds. I now begin my conversations with potential recruits with a sentence that always brings a smile: I am not good at what you do, and I need your help.

Tools




It’s more or less trivial to automate most of the tweaks from “additional optimizations” section. There already exist tools that strip comments, whitespaces, and remove quotes around attribute values. But these are still in their infancy and perform a very limited set of optimizations. We can definitely do better.




A couple of months ago, me and hakunin started working on a similar, Ruby-based compressor, but never had a chance to finish it.




So what do we have so far?





1. 
   

   Absolute HTML Compressor (desktop, windows)

   
   

   Does great job, but only after turning off options like stripping doctype and replacing STRONG with I.

   
   
2. 
   

   HTML Compact (desktop, windows)

   
   

   Makes document inaccessible. Avoid.

   
   
3. 
   

   HTML Compressor (desktop, windows)

   
   

   Only removes whitespace, and even in whitespace-sensitive elements, such as PRE. Not very useful.

   
   
4. 
   

   Pretty Diff (web-based)

   
   

   Doesn’t have option to completely remove whitespaces (only collapses them). Doesn’t perform any optimizations except collapsing whitespace and removing newlines. Doesn’t respect whitespace-sensitive elements. Not very useful

   
   
5. 
   

   htmlcompressor (java-based)

   
   

   Performs most of the optimizations described here (but doesn’t remove optional tags or shorten boolean attributes). Respects whitespace-sensitive elements. It is more or less best option at the moment.

   
   





As you can see, current state of affairs is pretty disappointing. There seem to be no compression tools for Mac/Linux, and those for Windows are hardly useful.

more isn't necessarily better.

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