Transcript: Spent some time building out photos.john.bo today, which is a gallery explorer sort of view for all of the photos on my blog and ideally also an easy way to publish albums from the photos app directly to cut out all of the Hugo, Markdown, TNG conversion bullshit. So basically create an album on my phone with HEIC files, share it to whatever notes site bridge I have up and running. It'll convert the photos as appropriate async and drop them into the block git repo, push that and let it go live. So the things that I'm starting to recognize is just a folder of folders of photos is kind of hard to navigate. So I'm really curious about classifying them potentially with CJ's 3090 and giving them some common attributes. I'm thinking people, places and subjects. I really like CJ's photos collection view on his page. So I think this is trying to get at that in the sort of way and potentially someday this could be a collection of photos and a collection of text elements, a little bit like arena handles it. But for now, a lot of the things, a lot of the simple lists I have are just photos and an album photos is generally a pretty hard thing to share with other people. So having a seamless way to do that might help turning those lists into things that other people can recognize on the internet. So I like if a post came or if a photo came from a post, I'd like a direct link back to that post. If I'm looking at the folder of photos from a post, I'd like to have that whole view as well. I'm curious if blot supports multiple tags per photo. I don't know that they do. And if they don't, I might have to build something from scratch that's able to do that. What else? Captions need a good way to display those. And I don't know how good blot is at giving you something for that either. But just looking at the raw version so far, I'm really happy. And I think there's a pretty simple version that I can spin up of this that finally meets my need for sharing photos. You know, Instagram was this for a little bit, and then it was very much not this. I think it's the concept of likes on all of them. It just doesn't feel great. So a space that I control, but it's pretty low maintenance. And I think it'd be interesting to just be able to type command K and type in beach and see all my beach photos. iPhotos already does this, but do I want this public? I kind of like the idea of anybody being able to search through all of the categorizations. We'll see. There's no need to get too fancy with it yet.
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