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What is practice

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Al and I went to a dome show at OMSI called “Trust the Universe: The Philosophy of Alan Watts.” Up front, because reviews are thin on the ground, I would recommend against it: It’s only 45 minutes long, feels pretty disjointed, and the psychedelic visuals are sometimes a little campy. When the lotus position guy sort of gets sucked up into the mandala having dissolved his own ego I was annoyed.

About this project

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’m adding a section to my Claude Code-driven project READMEs (below).

I came across someone’s attempt to create an “AI Free” badge people could adopt for their projects, and decided that while I appreciate the sentiment, it is not actually helpful to anyone besides people whose position stops at “I don’t want to use code produced by an LLM.” That’s a fine position I take no philosophical issue with, but it doesn’t help people who come across my projects, which are plainly excluded from using that badge, to understand what it means to use them or interact with the code base if their position is not reflexively anti-AI.

OmniFocus through a new lens

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I got a notification that the OmniFocus subscription I forgot all about was about to expire, so naturally I had to go see what I made of that. It was sort of interesting reapproaching OF through the lens of having spent a bunch of time trying different task management tools before deciding to make my own that did everything I wanted.

My past reaction to OmniFocus has traditionally been “no, get it away from me.” Some of that reaction is to the tool itself and some of it is cultural: I remember OmniFocus when it was a bunch of AppleScript meant to make OmniOutliner do unnatural things, and I remember the culture it came out of. And some of that reaction is from thinking it is just too much, but that “productivity wang overkill” is pretty much its most loyal niche.

denote-tasks

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

denote-tasks is pretty much “what I hoped to get with TaskWarrior but didn’t.”

Rather than using sqlite it uses Markdown files named using Denote conventions, with some extra metadata in the YAML frontmatter for priority, due date, and project associations.

I chose to use the Denote naming convention because it gives me a reliable index for making associations between normal tasks and projects and can be the foundation for subtasks at some point. That also means you can use it in the context of a normal Denote notes corpus and take advantage of Denote stuff like dblocks if you like.

Trying to figure out how to live with LLMs at work

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Today I was writing an interview summary in Greenhouse, the recruiting tool, when I noticed one of those little “pixie dust” icons I have come to understand means “AI here!” It made me curious, so I carefully saved my work elsewhere then clicked the button.

Because I sit on my company’s AI governance committee, I have spent a lot of time over the past 18 months or so wondering what that button does in its many manifestations in all the apps where it appears. Sometimes it suggests some stuff you might want the LLM to do for you, like help plan a project, and other times it just does some sort of rewrite based on … ideas? … about “helping” you with your writing.

I think I'm finally over the savage wound that was GNOME 2.

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I finally remembered after a lot of “it must be in here somewhere” through each tiny little submenu of GNOME Tweaks that the “swap fn and ctrl” option is actually in Framework’s BIOS settings, not somewhere near “swap meta and super” in GNOME Tweaks.

I got so used to GNOME’s overview being under my thumb with only x percent of thumb curl instead of the pre-tweak y percent that the Framework 12 felt actively hostile. Now it matches my other Linux stuff and the slight change in the number of milimeters my thumb curls to invoke the overview/launcher feels like much less effort.

Just me, my list, and a day with no meetings

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Today was the first day in a little while that I had a true “heads down” day to truly dig in on the backlog I’ve been storing in Taskwarrior: No scheduled meetings, a painful awareness I’m behind on a few things, and a vague unease over the fact that unstructured time is my biggest enemy.

It was off to a good start, though, when I just made sure I was in the right context in TW and got ready to dig in: task context:work filtered out the non-work stuff, and all my “today” stuff was red, with tasks from my current focus project in yellow. Very easy to be clear on what I’d committed to or what the best things to pull forward would be if I exhausted the day’s list, and it helped me spot things that I knew I’d need to rethink as I worked through the focus project and future tasks were affected by current work.

Well, I remember kind of what I was thinking

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I forgot I even ordered a tinyPod until it showed up at my door Wednesday. I ordered it a very long time ago. (Checked the mail after posting this: 10 months ago!)

It, uh, it turns your Apple Watch into an Apple Watch encased in plastic with a scroll wheel.

I think the logic of this purchase was:

I don’t really like my Apple Watch as a watch anymore. I am wearing my field watch these days.
It seems like a neat idea to have a little iPod-like thing with cellular connectivity.
I like the idea of having access to things like calendar, weather, directions, etc. without having my phone along.

One could say, “if you’re getting all that utility out of the watch anyhow, one easy way to carry it would be on your wrist.”

More on managing Taskwarrior (and integrating with mutt and notes-tui)

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

After a few days of fiddling, I almost feel like Taskwarrior is dialed in.

I’ve got a pair of aliases that take away some of the wordiness of task entry: twa and twp for things that get either the work or personal tag. If I want to add metadata I can, but if I need to just dash something in, it’s fast.

I’ve set up a work context, a personal context (which is just not tagged work), and a contacts context. So it’s easy to cut away the noise from different areas of concern.

On Monokai Pro

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I really like the Monokai Pro theme. I’m using it in Helix as I write this post. Specifically, I really like the “Ristretto” sub theme, which hits a really nice note with its browns, oranges, and cyans. (Green figures heavily in it, too, and it’s one of those things where it can be used well or used too much, so I won’t use kitty’s version of Ristretto because I’d need to go in and figure out how to swap out the green in my shell color scheme and haven’t yet.)

Seeking the right kind of friction

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I picked TaskWarrior as an entry point into CLI todo tools. There are a lot of them, and the struggle between Danny-O’Brien-style “just write it in a text file” minimalism and … the other extreme … is real.

I picked TW because it has been around forever. I will not presume to judge its design decisions. I can tell a few strategically placed aliases would do a lot to remove the sense of crushing overhead. I also picked it because it is super scriptable, so it was easy to build a tasks backend into my contacts TUI with it.

Helix and Marksman LSP server

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Marksman LSP server experience with Helix is so smooth. Given a directory of Markdown files, dropping in a blank .marksman.toml or running git init . puts the directory on Marksman’s radar as a thing to work with. Provided Marksman is in your path, there’s no need for additional config.

Drop into insert mode, start typing wikilink brackets ([[) and it invokes autocomplete on every file in the directory.

Placing the cursor over a wikilink, you can use gd (go to definition) to open that file in a new buffer.

Integrating notes and contacts

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been plugging away at another TUI app, this time for notes. It’s very much in line with the thing I was trying to do with bash and fzf, but instead in Go. Right now:

Fast search for notes in either a configured directory or one named on the command line
Tag search, either in-line (#tag) or in YAML frontmatter
Open to-do search
Hotkey to make a daily note of a given format
Alternate note template. If you see the point in YAML frontmatter, it’ll do that. If you prefer “l1 heading from the title” it’ll do that.
It does a very basic sort of Markdown rendering on its own for note preview, or you can configure it to shell out to bat, glow, etc. I am using glow because it has an option to edit a file under preview.

It works really well with Helix or other LSP-aware editors, because you can add the Marksman LSP server and have your own connected notes system with wiki-linking without having to adopt another app, like Obsidian, if you don’t want that whole ride.

Helix

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I had insomnia a few nights ago, so I started fiddling with different things, including the CLI tasks tool dstask, which is sort of TaskWarrior without the misanthropy. (I kid.)

So a kind of nice thing about dstask is that with dstask #{note number} note you pop open $EDITOR in a Markdown note attached to the task. dstask is aware of any Markdown checklists inside the task note and blocks completion of the task if there are open ones.

Integrating task trackers with contacts-tui

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

One of the best parts of my org-contacts setup was that when I moved a contact into a given state (followup, call, write, etc.) it’d become a task in my org agenda, along with all my other todos.

I added integrations with TaskWarrior, dstask, and Things to contacts-tui this evening:

Put a contact in a given state, the tasks backend creates a todo in your configured tracker with that contact’s label as a tag.

Contacts management in a TUI

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I haven’t really liked social networking as a development. Sometimes I’d even say I mourn its existence. I used to have people with whom I shared a great email correspondence who abandoned that in favor of the Eternal Holiday Newsletter mode of Facebook, or the “oh, I tweeted about it last week if you want to look it up” of the assorted microblogging services.

The kind of conversation we can have at a BBQ you invited your high school friends to is different from the one we can have over coffee. The kinds of things I’d say to you on my front porch might even be different from what I’d say at the cafe.

The One-Armed Bandit

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Well, I’ve spent a few weeks now playing around with Claude on two projects:

An MCP for Remember the Milk
An MCP for contacts management

I haven’t read a lot of commentary on how to code with AI, and I’ll say a little more on the kind of AI-related commentary I have read in a bit. Instead, I just let myself stumble into the challenges and try to figure out my way around them. The biggest ones were:

Remember the Milk MCP

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I have a lot of todos and a lot of meetings. I hate playing task/calendar Tetris. Sometimes my task list gets way out in front of my calendar. I got pretty curious about “what is an MCP and how do they work?” So this morning, when I woke up early anyhow, I set about to work with Claude to make a Remember the Milk MCP using some stuff I learned from making imgup.

imgup v0.12.0 (flipping the script)

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

One of my bigger annoyances with Lightroom CC is how magestically indifferent it is to anything a normal human being using a Mac in 2025 might want to with it in the way of sharing your pictures. It is a literal void on the desktop: AppleScript? lol. Even the standard macOS share sheet? Nope. You can export out to disk, and you can share things to Adobe’s own services. If you want more extensibility or flexibility well, go use Lightroom Classic.

imgupv2 0.9.0 - Bluesky, multi-image, caching

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I pushed out imgupv2 0.9.1. It’s what I’d call feature complete:

multi-image posting to Flickr, Smugmug, Bluesky, and Mastodon
world’s crabbiest, most indifferent caching strategy
GUI for posting straight from Apple Photos or Finder selection

I kinda like where it ended up with multi-images from the command line. They were super clunky using standard command line switches and positional arguments, and I think that’s a weird use case for the command line, but it’s a normal use case for automation, so the tool biases in favor of machines talking at each other in those instances:

Well, I'm less likely to subtoot, anyhow.

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’m currently on my second life in Mastodon. I deleted my omg.lol account after a long period of having 30-day self-destructing toots anyhow, then sort of pulled myself together and reinstated it. I turned off the self-destructing part, too.

But part of the reason for getting rid of almost all my social accounts was frustration over seeing things go by and rinsing/repeating the whole “someone is wrong on the internet” cycle, except I’m way too retiring to do anything other than delete the post or turn it into a homeopathically vague subtoot. “If a tree falls on Jupiter and nobody is around to hear it” levels of vague.

There's an addressable market of 1

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Years ago when I was first learning to write scripts, I’d come up with stuff that made my life much better and would have helped other people on my team, and I’d run into the kinds of distribution problems you’d expect: I was a Linux/Mac guy, everyone around me was a Windows person, etc. I am guessing the 20th anniversary of the first time I said “well, it runs on my laptop” is right around the corner. Even people who could download the OSAX I was using for an AppleScript weren’t necessarily interested in doing it.

imgup v0.13.0 (Fedi-Ready)

Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Over the weekend I roughed in support for posting to gotosocial or Mastodon imgup, but made a decision about UI that my old jazz band director would have called “a choice that was not as good as the other ones,” and it took trying to wire the new functionality into a Raycast script to catch how it was a problem.

So this morning was “untangle that mess” and I think it’s in a way better place:

Exposure therapy

Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I should probably apologize to a few people on the Fediverse for double-follows or weird Mastodon noise, but I’m not entirely clear on what kind of noise a small experiment might have generated. If you know me and noticed a weird follow, it’s because a quick automated trawl of my timeline flagged you as low-noise, high-signal for photography-related stuff and dropped you into my Photographers list.

The reason for the trawl was to get back to a practice I used to follow a long time ago where I’d wake up in the morning and load up Flickr’s “Explore” feed in Flipboard and make myself flip through it for a while. It was a little hard to do some mornings, but I stuck with it, adopting a mindset of:

Focus Guardian

Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Claude has enabled a sort of exuberant play recently, as I’ve figured out what it is good for and how it can help me do stuff that I’ve thought would be interesting or fun to play with, but not practical to implement on my own. That’s been fun, but also it has felt a little weird because it has led me fully into the territory of doing things because I can, not because they’re really useful.

imgup v0.10.0 - sharing is caring (fedi support)

Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I started the day working through the setup for a gotosocial server. It took a little fussing with the Synology, but it’s up and running. There’s a little more to it than “because I could,” but not much. I think I’ll find a few things to follow from there that are not humans with feelings and see how well it runs before moving there.

But that made me start thinking about imgup and how it’d be kind of cool to be able to use it to post to Fediverse services. So imgup 0.10.0 does that by adding a way to enroll it with gotosocial as an app then adding it as an option when posting to Flickr or Smugmug.

lmno-blog-capture bump (adds and polishes 'drafts')

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I rolled the lmno ‘drafts’ stuff into lmno-blog-capture, which is sort of like org-capture for a monolithic lmno.lol blog file: Invoke it, get a little transient window with a pre-populated heading, do your thing, C-c C-c to save/exit.

With the drafts feature added, you can configure a drafts file (e.g. drafts-lmno.md), position the cursor inside a draft you’re working on in your main blog file, and teleport it to your drafts file. If you’re done with a draft, you can send it back over to the top of your lmno.lol file.

The FujiFilm half made me think about the XF10

Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The new #fujifilm #half looks sort of fun. I checked its dimensions against the XF10, and they’re quite similar.

I re-read some release reviews of the XF10, then looked it up in Lightroom. I didn’t take too many pictures with it: I’ve never really done well with cameras that don’t have a viewfinder, and I got mine during the summer, when working with an LCD on bright beaches, etc. was a challenge.

The Priorities app

Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A long while back I had a small falling out with a boss. I was a green manager and we were trying to figure out what I needed for headcount. I had no idea how to have that conversation: I just knew “more people == more work done.” After a few back-and-forths, he finally realized I wasn’t getting it, and he said, “Look, I need to know each thing the team is doing, how important you think it is, and what it takes to keep the lights on. Tell me that and we can figure out if there’s something we could be doing differently, or slow down on, or reprioritize.”

Plain text is calming

Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I managed to get too many plates spinning again, and made it worse for myself by trying very hard to use Asana, because it’s what we use for a few things at work and it’s easier to send todos back and forth in 1:1 and team boards. My own personal project board isn’t great and I vacillate between a column view and list view, but the fact is Asana just makes my brain freeze. I do not like it. It doesn’t matter how I arrange the view.

Hoarder

Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I started to write about Basic Memory this afternoon, and that gave me an idea that turned into an evening of coaching Claude into helping me do some stuff:

I took my corpus of old micro.blog posts and migrated them into my notes. They’re all YAML-n-Markdown, so they could just be imported.

I did the same with my mono-topic Hugo posts. Same idea.

I made a script for the many, many daily posts I wrote over a few years, grateful that I stuck to a convention of organizing them with l2 headings: Each heading became a title of a new, atomized post. I did that because my daily posts could cover a lot, so now it’s all more searchable.

The eglot/lsp/apheleia rabbithole

Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

… I went down it last night and this morning.

I’m back on Doom after patiently dismantling a bunch of cruft I’d added to it. I set a goal of getting my package count under 200 (including all the batteries Doom includes). Because its default stance is that you want emacs-lsp and not eglot I went along with that initially, and it drove me a little bonkers. I think these things assume a much more organized person than I am, and LSP began to nag pretty much constantly until I made the mistake of telling it to blocklist ~/, at which point it pretty much stopped working, because there’s an implicit -r in there.

Simple 'drafts' for lmno.lol

Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

lmno.lol does have a feature for hiding posts, but the last time I did blogging out of a monolithic file I struggled to remember to toggle that, so when I started working on a post that got longer and longer I ended up moving the work into a scratch buffer. That was annoying to me, so there’s this:

(defvar mph/blog-drafts-file (expand-file-name "drafts_lmno.md" "~/journal/blog/"))
(defvar mph/blog-published-file (expand-file-name "lmno.md" "~/journal/blog/"))

(defun mph/move-heading-between-draft-and-published ()
 "Move current Markdown L1 heading to the other blog file (drafts_lmno.md or lmno.md).
If in drafts_lmno.md, moves to lmno.md. If in lmno.md, moves to drafts_lmno.md.
Always inserts at the beginning of the file."
  (interactive)
  (let* ((current-file (buffer-file-name))
         (target-file (cond
                       ((string= (file-truename current-file) (file-truename mph/blog-drafts-file)) mph/blog-published-file)
                       ((string= (file-truename current-file) (file-truename mph/blog-published-file)) mph/blog-drafts-file)
                       (t (user-error "This file is not drafts_lmno.md or lmno.md")))))
    ;; Save and cut the heading
    (save-excursion
      ;; Find the beginning of the current L1 heading
      (beginning-of-line)
      (while (and (not (looking-at "^# ")) (not (bobp)))
        (forward-line -1))
      (unless (looking-at "^# ")
        (user-error "Not on a Markdown L1 heading"))
      (let ((start (point)))
        ;; Find the end of the current heading (next L1 heading or end of buffer)
        (forward-line 1)
        (while (and (not (looking-at "^# ")) (not (eobp)))
          (forward-line 1))
        ;; Cut the heading and its content
        (let ((heading-text (buffer-substring-no-properties start (point))))
          (delete-region start (point))
          ;; Paste into target file at beginning
          (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect target-file)
            (goto-char (point-min))
            (insert heading-text)
            (save-buffer)))))
    (message "Moved heading to %s" (file-name-nondirectory target-file))))
;; Doom leader key setup
(map! :leader
      :desc "Blog commands"
      "l" '(:ignore t :which-key "blog")
      :desc "Move heading to other blog file"
      "l r" #'mph/move-heading-between-draft-and-published
      :desc "New lmno blog entry (md)"
      "l b" #'lmno-capture-post)

Just, SPC l r on a given l1 heading to shuttle it to either the drafts file or the main blog file.

So many brooms, so many buckets (Updated)

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I started the day playing around with MCP’s for Claude Desktop. I found one for Emacs and one called Basic Memory.

emacs-mcp-server sends evals to your running Emacs instance via emacsclient. It’s sort of fascinating to watch in progress. Not the fastest thing on the planet, but it was a jolt the first time I turned my attention to something else and came back to realize it had created a new function and added it to my configuration.

A cautionary Syncthing tale

Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Over on the other blog I recently enthused about SyncTrain, an iOS SyncThing client. I still maintain it is very good, but wow did I end up foot-gunning with it:

I set Journelly up to use a SyncTrain share on my iPhone, promising myself I’d make sure to do the occasional manual sync, never leave my Journelly file open when not editing it on one of the real computers, etc. I still managed to end up with a sync error, and SyncThing dutifully created a sync error file. The Journelly app picked up that file and started using it as the default file to write to – I’m assuming iOS filesystem arcana is involved – which I wouldn’t have noticed if I hadn’t manually peeked in the directory instead of just using an org-capture template to make Journelly entries on my Mac.

Offsite's over

Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Rainy afternoon here on the last day of the work offsite. We all went down to Pine St. Market and had ramen at the end of the day, and I said goodbye to some of the folks who came in from out of town. A few I’ll see once more for dinner tomorrow.

This kind of work function is always a little draining by the time it’s over. Spending days in a small room, even with pretty good people, just takes some battery, and this one was a little melancholy because one of my teammates is moving on.

trying to get org-capture to work is nature's way of telling us to slow down

Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been so happy with my emacs-plus install that there was an when-not-if element to the whole thing. It came today when I tried to get org-capture to work and it … just wouldn’t. So I tried an alternate build and lost over an hour I could have spent writing to uninstalling, reinstalling, troubleshooting, rewriting a launchd agent, etc.

Digging in on the photo project

Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I abhor feeling attachment to things.

Years ago I was out in the garage going through some old boxes at the same time I was thinking about some people I knew who seemed very connected to what they had been, and uncertain of how to go about being who they had become. So when I reached into the box and pulled out some old object I thought, “I don’t want this thing anymore,” then I thought “oh, but it’s a reminder of …” and then I thought, “I’m in no danger of forgetting that time.”

Experiments in atomic writing

Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I am not sure how this will go and it could be this is futzing under another guise, but this evening I did improve on my futz pattern a little by choosing to devote a journal entry to some thinking I’ve been doing about The News, how to consume it, how much to consume, etc. etc. IOW, instead of diddling around with a tool or a toy, I started writing about something that matters to me.

Eugene

Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We took a trip to Eugene to visit Ben. Walking around this morning we came across the Shelton McMurphey Johnson House, and then picked up the trail up Skinner’s Butte.

flickr's alright

Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using SmugMug for a while, and really like how well it has worked for my pix subdomain, but it has always come with a little feeling of “what am I even doing on SmugMug to begin with?” It’s meant for people who want to sell their photography, and everything about its customer comms reminds you of that.

In the process of getting imgup to broaden its horizons and work with flickr, I remembered that I actually like flickr (which is owned and operated by SmugMug now). It’s just more oriented around “you want to put photos up online,” without any emphasis on being a “pro,” and without Glass’s … whatever it is about Glass’s vibe.

The futzes

Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Yeesh. So, re: imgup. It is pretty much “done” to me as a tool. Meaning, it does exactly what I want it to do, plus a few things I didn’t start out with. There’s maybe one more tweak (“just give me the URL”) I can go add in five minutes when I get around to it. But today I was thinking “oh, it’d be cool if it had a history,” and “oh, it’d be cool if it could show thumbnails in kitty.”

writeroom-mode

Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

For whatever reason I have an allergic reaction to the phrase “distraction-free,” but as I’ve waffled back and forth between org-mode and Markdown as the starting point for prose I’ve also thought about how my model writing app on macOS is probably iA Writer, because it’s just so easy on the eyes. I kinda buy the limited choice it offers, too. That might be why it edges out Ulysses.

Missing Mixel

Sat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Does anyone else remember Mixel? It was a collaborative collage app that arrived early in the iPad era, was amazing for a little while, then pivoted into online postcards or something, then slipped under the waves.

You started with a blank canvas and a collection of images that sort of acted like stickers you could plop on the canvas and manipulate into a collage. The collection was socially driven, so for periods something would find its way into collective consciousness, spawning a bunch of riffs on a theme.

I don't miss lockdown …

Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

… but I do miss that it exerted tremendous pressure to figure out whatever it took to do things I cared about, and that sustained me.

So for a long while there, almost every night, it was just “grab a camera and go somewhere.”

I guess I’m thinking about it because when we were walking on Foster Road last night I noticed that three places that had kept their outdoor areas all the way through now have taken them down in the space of a week.

imgup 0.6 (flickr!)

Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

flickr’s API is way more comprehensible than SmugMug’s, so adding flickr support went down much more quickly. Just get an API key/secret (links in the README) and step through onboard to auth your copy of imgup.

Otherwise, it’s the exact same interface and UI. You just have to add a --backend argument to use flickr when you run it:

imgup -b flickr -t "The Title" -c "The Caption" -f md img_123.jpg

imgup-cli 0.1.0

Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using imgup as a cli tool for a few days and it has worked pretty well. A few things bothered me about it:

The OAuth situation was janky and not very portable. You had to have a .env file with very little help in the way of configuring it.
Onboarding via oauth was non-existent.
Configuring a target album involved fiddling around in the API or knowing exactly where to hover your mouse on the website.

So I spent some time just cleaving the CLI out of the core project and working on cleaning some of that up.

Bar Carlo