Jon Sneyers
Hi! I'm Jon, and this is my home page. Welcome!
Bio
I was born in 1981, in Leuven, Belgium. I have a PhD in Computer Science from KU Leuven. Since 2016, I work for Cloudinary, doing research related to image processing and compression. Currently I live in Asse, Belgium, with my better half and three wonderful daughters.
Image Compression
JPEG XL
In JPEG, I co-chair the JPEG XL adhoc group. JPEG XL is based on a combination of Google's PIK and Cloudinary's FUIF. Free and open-source JPEG XL reference software is available.
FLIF
Together with Pieter Wuille, I created the Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF).
Check out my blog posts on the Cloudinary blog.
Food
I've been a vegetarian for about 30 years. Not that I particularly like animals, or want to save the planet (I do, but I don't think consumer boycotts are the best way to do that). It's just that to my sense of gastronomy, the concept of putting animal corpses on a plate has never been appetizing, even when the carcass has been cooked or otherwise processed.
Politics
I am a democratic socialist, inspired by the political analyses of Marx and Trotsky, amongst others. Since 2003, I've been a member of LSP-PSL, the Belgian section of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI); since 2020 of International Socialist Alternative (ISA).
Music
I amateurishly . I also make stuff in Amiga-style trackers.
Some songs I wrote:
- Pianofortis [pdf] [ly,midi] (2009)
- Revolution Now (2006)
- Impact theme (2002)
- Advancing Backwards (2000)
- Black Monday (1997)
Religion
I'm a non-militant atheist.
Old stuff
Here are some links to old/outdated pages:
- My old home page (last updated in 2014)
- ZWASSM, my old blog (last updated in 2014)
- Consequent Links (political blog, last updated in 2015)
- CHRiSM and APOPCALEAPS
Book
I wrote a book. It's an epic optimistic-dystopian feminist pornographic hard-SF adventure, written in Dutch (~95k words). If you're a publisher (or screenwriter) and interested in translating (or adapting) it, please contact me.
Contact
The easiest way to contact me is via Bluesky (@sneyers.info) Alternatively, you can email me (jon@cloudinary.com if it's related to image compression, jon.sneyers@gmail.com otherwise). I have accounts on linkedin, twitter (@jonsneyers), and facebook but don't regularly check them.