Dependency management

The day Loupe stopped being a thing that only runs on my machine. I reframed it as a self-hostable product, made the pipeline portable through environment variables, scrubbed both repos clean for publishing, finalized a brand and header, fixed the photobook's repetition problem, and registered loupeculling.com for a marketing site.

An aggressive package cleanup quietly broke my storage box's admin UI through a dependency I didn't know was load-bearing. Then a filename-normalizer bug taught me to trust byte sizes over names when matching files back to a database.