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Discussion of original release of DD Photos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322838

I was frustrated with photo sharing sites. Apple's iCloud shared albums take 20+ seconds to load, and everything else comes with ads, cumbersome UIs, or social media distractions. …

I first posted about DD Photos 50 days ago[1], when I first open-sourced it. A lot of improvements have been made since then (hero image, site/album passwords, ngnix support, UI re…

I had asked about Hugo in the first prompt, and it told me what it was, and then my prompt was: "Huh, could you build my functionality using Hugo [link to repo]? I mean I'm using d…

I've never heard of Hugo until I saw subpixel's comment. I was curious and asked Claude if I could have built my site using it. Claude's response: Short answer: technically yes, bu…

Correct - if the resized image is already there it is skippped (this can be overwritten with -force flag).

Thanks, appreciate it. I'll checkout thumbsup too.

No real challenges. I made the Go `photogen` tool run in parallel using goroutines (e.g., 3-6 depending on your CPU). It's pretty fast at churning through hundreds of photos.

I was frustrated with photo sharing sites. Apple's iCloud shared albums take 20+ seconds to load, and everything else comes with ads, cumbersome UIs, or social media distractions. …

My question to my team was always "Is it done, or done-done?". Which is another way to say this, I suppose.

I worked in the Bay Area during the dot-com boom and large swathes of time were effectively 996. I was generally irritable, gained a bunch of weight (up to 220; am now 170), and ev…

Feel this. I don't even use Alexa, Siri or Hey Google in my house. My fridge is a fridge and not wifi enabled.

Soylent Green is people!

Duolingo makes it hard to ignore - the whole app is gamified. It's like ignoring water while swimming in the ocean. Yes, you can turn off notifications, but sometimes they were hel…

I can relate to this post - great thoughts! I took Spanish in high school and college, so had a rudimentary understanding of verb tenses and some vocabulary. Before I walked the Ca…

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The point is that money that is going into GenAI or adding GenAI-related features to software should be going to fix existing broken software.

"Doomed from the start" for a 133 year old company seems a bit hyperbolic. They have lasted 13 decades and counting. How many other company started in the 1890s are still around to…

I don't have confidence that systems built on top of a specific model will work the same on a higher version. Unlike, say, the Go programming language where backwards compatibility…

Baltimore is in Maryland.