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Jun 16, 2026
A kernel reboot, two apps becoming one, and an enrichment layer pulled from Apple
The day the project got a name and a spine: I came back to a box that had silently rebooted, merged two sibling photo-review apps into one managed service called Loupe, added a cloud backup and AI-written period summaries, and built an enrichment layer that joins Apple's own labels, people, and scores back onto my library by UUID.
Jun 15, 2026
The 462 GB move that took 0.09 seconds, and two review tools
A long day: turning a 462 GB copy into an instant rename by understanding the filesystem, catching two backup processes about to trample each other, and building two browser tools to actually review ~91,000 photos without ever deleting one by accident.
Jun 12, 2026
Culling rules that find nothing, and a bucket that wasn't what it looked like
With the metadata database built, I started defining rules to surface delete-candidates. Two of the rules found nothing, one was secretly broken, and the biggest 'junk' bucket turned out to be footage I'd never delete. The lesson of the day: rules lie, pixels don't.