Photos

Usually, I post photos on Instagram, but I’ve been increasingly dissatisfied with it: the algorithmic feed, the stories, and the ads. Luckily, it’s still possible to download photos from Instagram.

I decided to make a minimalistic photo gallery. The main requirement is that the gallery should work fast on mobile and desktop.

https://chuhlomin.com/photos

The Photographer app takes a folder of photos and generates thumbnails, blurs, and other metadata stored in a YAML file. The same file is later used by the site generator to “render” the HTML page. Here are some of the features:

• Photos are stored in Cloudflare R2 storage for fast delivery (and to avoid paying for traffic).
• Images are preloaded in the background.
• Some photos have captions.
• Sprites are used to reduce the number of requests.
• A blurred image is shown before the photo is loaded.
• Keyboard navigation.

What else would I like to add:

• tags,
• location information,
• display of photos on the map,
• search by description.