Using Photon in local development

Automattic's Photon image resizing service is open source, so you can use it locally if you want to roll your sleeves up a bit.

Check out the Photon codebase to a location served by your VIP Quickstart or Salty WordPress Vagrant: svn co https://code.svn.wordpress.org/photon/ photon.dev. You will probably need to edit /etc/hosts on your local machine too.
You probably don't have Gmagick installed on your machine. You'll need to perform some operations as sudo to make this happen.
sudo su - Inside your Vagrant instance, switch to the super user.
apt-get install libgraphicsmagick1-dev php5-dev make - Install Graphicsmagick dev tools. You may need to apt-get update
cd /root; wget https://pecl.php.net/get/gmagick-1.1.7RC2.tgz - Grab Gmagick for compiling.
tar -xvf gmagick-1.1.7RC2.tgz; cd gmagick-1.1.7RC2 - Get ready for compiling!
phpize - Get ready for compiling again!
./configure; make; make install - Compile for your system.
echo "extension=gmagick.so" > /etc/php5/mods-available/gmagick.ini - Make the PHP module available.
ln -s /etc/php5/mods-available/gmagick.ini /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/20-gmagick.ini - Enable the module.
service php5-fpm restart - Restart PHP-FPM to enable the module.
Use Jetpack 3.4.2 or later to ensure my filter is applied.
Add this code snippet to a local MU plugin:

define( 'FUSION_PHOTON_HOST', 'http://photon.dev' );
add_filter( 'jetpack_photon_domain', function( $domain ){
	return FUSION_PHOTON_HOST;
});

And voila! Local images served from Photon.

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