I save and backup all the photos on a Synology NAS instead of using one of the online providers. However Synology Photos doesn't have good search capabilities. So I built a project to search through the images using natural language captions, and found that it works really well.

I have published the project publicly with a GPL-3.0 license - synology-photos-nlp-search. Anyone is welcome to use and contribute to the project.

It was really cool to see that I can try two search terms like food and eating, and the embeddings model would understand the difference and provide relevant images for both.

The project runs the model and stores any model-related files locally, so besides downloading the model and necessary python packages, there are no API calls being made to any outside services. I have containerized the application to make it easier to deploy and use. That said, some programming experience might be needed as it's not an open-and-use application.

This is my first major project that I am publishing, and would welcome any feedback for improvements from the community.

I save and backup all the photos on a Synology NAS instead of using one of the online providers. However Synology Photos doesn't have good search capabilities. So I built a project to search through the images using natural language captions, and found that it works really well.

I have published the project publicly with a GPL-3.0 license - synology-photos-nlp-search. Anyone is welcome to use and contribute to the project.

It was really cool to see that I can try two search terms like food and eating, and the embeddings model would understand the difference and provide relevant images for both.

The project runs the model and stores any model-related files locally, so besides downloading the model and necessary python packages, there are no API calls being made to any outside services. I have containerized the application to make it easier to deploy and use. That said, some programming experience might be needed as it's not an open-and-use application.

This is my first major project that I am publishing, and would welcome any feedback for improvements from the community.

I wanted to share with the community an iOS shortcut I created to remove exif metadata from images - Remove Image Metadata.

To use the shortcut, select photos, select the share button, and then select the shortcut name. The shortcut will remove the exif data from each selected image, and save them as new images with new names.

I use this shortcut before uploading images to apps and websites so the images do not include metadata identifiers for my device. The screenshot with the post was generated using the shortcut.

If anyone has suggestions for improvements, please let me know.

I created an iOS shortcut to remove all metadata from images - Remove Image Metadata.

To use the shortcut, select photos, select the share button, and then select the shortcut name. The shortcut will remove the exif data from each selected image, and save them as new images with new names.

The screenshot with the post was generated using the shortcut.

If anyone has suggestions for improvements, please let me know.

There was a post recently for how to bypass paywalls and one of the suggestions was to prefix 12ft.io to the url.

So I created a shortcut in iOS to do just that and that can be used directly in Safari from the share sheet.

Instead of sharing the shortcut through iCloud, I’ve posted the screenshot here so you can create your own. After creating the shortcut, click on the Share button on any website with a paywall, select the shortcut name, and the website would open in a new window without the paywall.