Are there any practices, either spec or informal for running a photo log type capsule? I want to migrate https://obscure.8by3.net into geminispace. I like how Lagrange inlines images with a click, thinking of adding that to a kineto for people visit my current site who wouldn't use a decicated browser
2025-05-30 · 11 months ago · 👍 norayr
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🛰️ lufte · 2025-05-30 at 18:51:
If I were to design my own one, I would make one gemini document per entry, and each entry would contain the link(s) to the relevant photo(s) of that entry, and maybe a description. I would also add next/previous links for easy navigation between entries.
🚀 stack · 2025-05-31 at 16:53:
You could also keep a single page with a group of related images, interleaving descriptions and image links.
At least in Lagrange it makes navigation seamless
🐙 norayr · 2025-06-01 at 14:55:
i was thinking of making a hierarchical capsule, not a stream, so that there could be a page for street, page for landscape, etc, an i was thinking of generating a gemini atom feed from git diff (not necessarily git) so i dont need to create a new post to add it to rss feed, just the change on the page would suffice.
and gemini requires a link to be on a separate line so that plays well with m idea of using revisio control to generate an atom feed.
the subscriber would see one link to the photo as an update, but that one photo is still part of the one gemini document that contains many other photos.
☀️ sbr [OP] · 2025-06-01 at 14:59:
Bit like tinyphotolog ?
edit. I think I read what you wrote and was thinking about something else, hierarchy sounds interesting. Perhaps too involved for every day but interesting for a project.
Coming back to my own thought train, tiny log for photos is probably fine for most things, though sometimes I like a series of images together. Though I might be over thinking this and they could just be in the tiny log.
For now I might go tiny photo log route.
🐙 norayr · 2025-06-01 at 16:02:
i didn't know about tinyphotolog, can you point me to some capsule or / and its source? i am interested what is it written in, have a prejudice, think it's better when smalnet tech is written with simple tools, not many dependencies, and tools that burn less energy.
☀️ sbr [OP] · 2025-06-01 at 16:23:
Hah, I just made it up. Basically use the “tinylog” format which is just a semi official spec and not a tool, and stick a photo in for each post.
☀️ sbr [OP] · 2025-06-02 at 14:33:
Using exiftool you could read all metadata from the images and then write a script to build the tinylog entries for images in a directory.
Adding it to my todo list ...