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Thoughts on photo overload, decluttering, and building a calmer way to keep your memories.
A week in Spain, 250 photos, and the album that never gets made. The order that works, how to fix a trip's edges, and why choosing between nine similar shots takes two seconds when you can see all nine.
Read more →Everything you care about is in there somewhere, in the least useful order there is. How automatic trip detection actually works, the albums it finds that you'd never have thought to make, and the one thing it still can't do.
Read more →Your camera roll is the most personal archive you own. Three things decide whether an app deserves it — and every one of them is something you can check yourself in two minutes, including on my app.
Read more →Perceptual hashing, neural embeddings, and the one-swipe test that tells you where your photos are being processed. Plus the real numbers: 23,000 photos, 30 minutes, 30% battery, and why the model shrank from 360 MB to 170 MB.
Read more →I cut 30,000 photos down to 22,000 by hand before building an app to do it properly. The order that actually works, what Apple's Duplicates tool misses, and why videos are the real storage story.
Read more →More posts on the way. Curious who writes them? About Curator. Want a heads-up on new posts? Email support@curatorapp.ch.