Jun 16, 2026
June 16 — 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 productionized 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
June 15 — 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.