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by mceachen 7y ago
I'm having a real hard time squaring a rant about usability that expressly states that everyone should be held accountable to good design, and a website design that went out its way to be unreadable on mobile.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Only on iOS. On Android and all desktop OSes, double-tap selects a word.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Having received the same letter from DF a couple weeks ago, this is exactly how I took it as well. Except maybe s/but/and/
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by mceachen 7y ago
I read the exact opposite: that they regret not using typescript for non-trivial projects because tsc would have prevented dumb mistakes due to a lack of types.
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by mceachen 7y ago
It depends on the image. Very high contrast areas (like text) on high quality coated stock can resolve up to 1200dpi (where higher resolution don't hold up even under a loupe). Photographic continuous tone images never have that sharp
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by mceachen 7y ago
I agree with both of you. I'm hoping to hit a chunk of that "middle option" you spoke of with PhotoStructure (details in my profile). I'm building sharing next, so hopefully that aspect will be addressed as well. Hosting
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by mceachen 7y ago
Good catch, I missed that.
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by mceachen 7y ago
> almost as large as ... iPhone 11 See https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/specs/ for a comparison. It's at least a quarter smaller in both dimensions.
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by mceachen 7y ago
If you open your network tab in your browser's devtools, there may be JSON payloads to give you what you need (rather than farting around with OCR or reverse image searching your album art).
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by mceachen 7y ago
Indexing and version migrations happen in the background already, and progress is shown on the home page. You can pause indexing via the system tray menu, and there's an advanced system setting to prevent sync runs from starting at lau
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by mceachen 7y ago
You should try out PhotoStructure. Details in my profile. It's photo management software that can run on the desktop via Electron, but it also runs via docker or directly under node. I ended up refactoring out the Electron layer to be
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by mceachen 7y ago
https://github.com/mholt/timeliner is the script I referenced, and it does incremental backups. It is limited by what Google's API exposes, though, so what you get back is not what you uploaded: it's got many
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by mceachen 7y ago
Please send me an email if you've got any issues: support@photostructure.com (this sort of feedback is exactly what I'm looking for from my beta users!) The system settings on Mac are here: https://photostructure.com&#x
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by mceachen 7y ago
Make sure you get a Google Takeout, but realize that much of the image metadata is deleted (and sometimes outright changed) from the originals. My takeout failed with an write until I requested an archive that was only photos, and only a ye
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by mceachen 7y ago
I'm in exactly your situation (possibly worse), so I quit my office job to build PhotoStructure. https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/ I've been letting people use PhotoStructure f
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by mceachen 7y ago
If it gets too rickety for you, you should try PhotoStructure. It's locally hosted, can be run on docker/headless or on a desktop, the libraries are read/writeable across platforms, and it has the most robust asset merging an
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by mceachen 7y ago
You didn't specify where your software is running. I'm building software that my users install and run on their own hardware. I send errors to Sentry.io when the error contains a novel stacktrace for the user and the user hasn&#x2
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by mceachen 7y ago
The majority of photos you already have most likely contain thumbnail and larger preview images embedded in the EXIF header. Raw images typically contain an embedded, full-sized JPEG version of the image as well. All of these are easily ext
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by mceachen 7y ago
I would not recommend logging into my personal Apple account on any devices owned by my employer. You very likely signed an inventions assignment at the beginning of your employment, where everything happening on work time or on work equip
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by mceachen 7y ago
The schematic on the whiteboard had a humidifier component, fwiw.
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by mceachen 7y ago
FWIW, "museum-grade" sounds great, but doesn't mean anything. The gift shops at the San Francisco, New York, and Paris fine arts museums have reproductions with noticeable and disagreeable color shifts, tonality inconsistenci
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by mceachen 7y ago
PhotoStructure maintains SHAs of all files, but I currently assume the user has updated the file if the SHA changes. PhotoStructure validates files before it imports them to keep corrupted images out of your library. How do you think I coul
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by mceachen 7y ago
Are you exposing any ports to the internet? The older library versions in High Sierra have numerous security issues (of various severity). You might be able to reduce your risk by disabling server features, but that's a dangerous game
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by mceachen 7y ago
Try to reduce the burden on whoever is surviving you. When my parents passed, it was overwhelming. 1) every year or two, print out your password manager and put it in your fire safe (or wherever you keep your passports and other important d
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by mceachen 7y ago
I've found that recent drives (wd & hgst) didn't support conveyance.
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by mceachen 7y ago
FWIW I've heard both used interchangeably (in banking, adtech, and other tech verticals). Edit: the linked wikipedia articles discriminate the terms by defining SSOT as a single place to store and edit every data element , while SOR a
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by mceachen 7y ago
This article has an unfortunate omission by ignoring drives' S.M.A.R.T. reporting system which can give a surprisingly thorough view into drive metadata, like how many blocks have been remapped due to media corruption. After running `b
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by mceachen 7y ago
Well done. Thanks for sharing your efforts!
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by mceachen 7y ago
I've found several in the past couple years (I test them more rigorously before I put them into a NAS).
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by mceachen 7y ago
There's a tool called `f3` that does this automatically: https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.htm... TL;DR (for Debian variants): $ sudo apt install f3 $ cd /MOUNTPOINT-FOR-

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