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An album is a tag. Photos carry lowercase free-text tags in their .toml sidecar (`tags = [...]`), parallel to the existing day grouping — no database, all derived at build time. - albums.go: parseTags (lowercase/trim/dedupe, slug via sanitiseSlug), groupByTag mirroring groupByDay, and rendering for album pages, the index, and the JSON API. Slug collisions between distinct names are suffixed and logged. - Routes: /album/<slug>/ (paginated square grid per tag), /albums/ (index with counts), /tags.json (machine-readable tag list, served statically like feed.xml). - POST /upload gains a `tags` field written into the sidecar; the web upload form gains a tags input. - Tags shown on each photo page linking to their album; an Albums link in the timeline/grid header.
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# photogallery
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Personal static photo gallery with Atom feed and upload API. Single-user.
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No database, no framework — just a Go binary that watches a directory and regenerates a static site.
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An Android app in `android/` posts to the same upload API.
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## Architecture
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```
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content/ # images + .toml sidecars (source of truth)
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public/ # generated output (served by nginx / --serve flag)
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templates/ # embedded HTML templates
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static/ # embedded CSS + JS
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android/ # Kotlin/Compose uploader app, own flake
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```
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The binary does three things at once:
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- Watches `content/` via fsnotify and rebuilds on any change
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- Serves a multipart upload API at `POST /upload`
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- In dev mode (`--serve`), also serves `public/` as static files
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Routes: `GET /upload` (HTML upload form), `POST /upload` (multipart), `GET /health`.
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In production nginx sits in front: serves `public/` directly, proxies `/upload` to localhost, htpasswd on the upload endpoint. Note `/health` is **not** proxied — nginx only forwards `location /upload`, so anything outside the box can only reach `/upload`.
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## Stack
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- **Go** — stdlib + `BurntSushi/toml`, `fsnotify/fsnotify`, `golang.org/x/image`
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- **Templates** — `html/template`, embedded via `embed.FS`
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- **Images** — four renditions per photo: original copy, 600×600 centre-cropped square thumbnail, a 1600px-longest-side "medium" for the detail page, and a 1200px "og" for link previews. Catmull-Rom resize. Outputs are skipped when newer than the source.
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- **Feed** — Atom (`encoding/xml`)
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- **NixOS** — `flake.nix` + `module.nix`, exports `nixosModules.default`
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## Sidecar format
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```toml
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caption = "Tempelhof at sunrise"
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date = "2026-06-14"
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tags = ["berlin", "sunrise"]
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```
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Missing sidecar → filename as caption, today as date. Photos sort newest first by that date.
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`tags` is optional, free-text, and defines albums (see below). Tags are
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normalized to lowercase on load/upload (`parseTags` in `albums.go`); a tag may
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contain spaces (`"berlin trip"`), and its URL slug is derived with `sanitiseSlug`.
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## Design
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- Gruvbox dark hard colour scheme
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- Crimson Pro (serif) for headings and captions — configurable via `-serif-family` / `-fonts-url`
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- Manjari for Malayalam text (bio line), via `-ml-family`
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- Two views of the same photos, both 3-column square grid → 2-column on mobile, both with infinite-scroll load-more. Page size is configurable via `-page-size` (default 60; NixOS `services.photogallery.pageSize`):
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- **Timeline is the site root** (`/`, `/page/2/`, …). Photos grouped by calendar day: one ISO date heading (`2026-06-14`) + count per day, then the square grid. `groupByDay` collapses the newest-first list into consecutive same-day runs; `chunkDayGroups` packs whole days into pages targeting `pageSize`, never splitting a day across a page boundary (so appended pages never duplicate a heading — the load-more JS relies on this).
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- **Grid** (`/grid/`, `/grid/page/2/`, …) is the flat square grid, linked from the profile header.
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- Each timeline date heading links to a **single-day page** (`/day/<YYYY-MM-DD>/`) holding just that day's photos. `renderDayPages` writes one per `groupByDay` run; the ISO label doubles as the URL slug.
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- Single photo page with sidebar and newer/older navigation
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### Albums (tags)
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A second grouping axis, parallel to days: an album is just a tag (`albums.go`).
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`groupByTag` mirrors `groupByDay`, and `renderAlbumPages` writes a paginated
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square-grid album per tag at `/album/<slug>/` (like the grid view). `/albums/`
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is the index of every tag with counts; `/tags.json` is the machine-readable tag
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list (`[{tag, slug, count}]`, served statically like `feed.xml`). Tags show on
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each photo page and link to their album; an **Albums** link sits in the
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timeline/grid header. Tags are assigned at upload via the `tags` field on
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`POST /upload` (comma-separated) or by editing a sidecar's `tags`. All derived at
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build time — no database.
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### Link previews
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Photo pages carry Open Graph + Twitter-card meta tags so a shared link unfurls
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in WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. `generateOG` writes a dedicated `public/og/`
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rendition — 1200px longest side, quality laddered down until under ~250 KB,
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because WhatsApp drops the preview above ~300 KB and the medium rendition can
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exceed that. The `og:image` URL is absolute (`{{.BaseURL}}/...`); both crawlers
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ignore relative image paths, and previews only work against the deployed
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`-base-url`, never `http://localhost`. `og:image:width`/`height` come from
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`DecodeConfig` on the OG file, read even when the file itself was skipped as up
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to date. Both platforms cache per URL — after a deploy, re-scrape via
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`@webpagebot` (Telegram) or Facebook's sharing debugger (WhatsApp).
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### Photo page navigation
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`static/photo-nav.js` handles arrow keys and touch swipe. Both read their
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destinations from the `[data-nav="newer"]` / `[data-nav="older"]` anchors the
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template renders, so a photo with no sibling in that direction has nothing to
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find and the gesture rubber-bands. If the script fails to load the links still
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work.
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Swipe left → older, right → newer, matching ArrowRight/ArrowLeft. Constraints
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worth knowing before touching it:
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- Swipes starting within 24px of a screen edge are ignored — that strip is the browser's own back-gesture.
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- Only `pointerType === "touch"`, so desktop drag-to-save is untouched.
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- Axis locks once after 10px so vertical drags stay scrolls; `touch-action: pan-y` tells the compositor the same.
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- The image is wrapped in an `<a>` to the full-size original, so the click trailing a swipe is suppressed or it opens a new tab.
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- `EXIT_MS` in the JS must stay in sync with the transition duration in `style.css`.
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Anything added under `static/` is embedded and copied to `public/static/`
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automatically — `assets.go` embeds the whole directory and `copyStatic()` walks
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every entry, so new CSS/JS needs no generator change.
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## Running locally
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```bash
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nix develop
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go mod tidy
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go run . --serve
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# gallery: http://localhost:8080
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# upload: http://localhost:8080/upload
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```
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## Android app
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Kotlin + Jetpack Compose uploader: pick or share a photo, add caption and date, post. Credentials (HTTP Basic) are sealed with an Android Keystore AES-GCM key. See `android/README.md` for the detail.
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Its own flake, deliberately separate from the root one so NixOS consumers of `nixosModules.default` don't pull the Android SDK into their lock:
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```bash
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cd android
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nix develop
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./gradlew assembleRelease # app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk
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```
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The server needs no changes to serve it — every gap (slug collisions, EXIF, HEIC, size caps) is closed client-side. Release builds need `android/keystore.properties`; without it the signing config is skipped and only debug builds work.
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## NixOS module usage
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```nix
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inputs.photogallery.url = "github:youruser/photogallery";
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# in modules:
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inputs.photogallery.nixosModules.default
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# in configuration.nix:
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services.photogallery = {
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enable = true;
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baseURL = "https://photos.yourdomain.tld";
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nginx = {
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enable = true;
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domain = "photos.yourdomain.tld";
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htpasswdFile = "/etc/nginx/.htpasswd-gallery";
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};
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};
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```
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## Bootstrap (first nix build)
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```bash
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go mod tidy # generates go.sum — commit it
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nix build # fails, prints correct vendorHash
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# paste hash into flake.nix
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nix build # succeeds
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```
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## Key files
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| File | Purpose |
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| `main.go` | Flags, wires generator + watcher + server |
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| `generator.go` | Scans content dir, renders HTML + Atom feed, generates thumbs/mediums |
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| `albums.go` | Tag parsing/normalization, `groupByTag`, album pages + `/albums/` + `/tags.json` |
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| `server.go` | Upload API + optional static file serving |
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| `watcher.go` | fsnotify watcher with 500ms debounce |
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| `assets.go` | `//go:embed` for templates and static |
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| `templates/timeline.html` | Site root: photos grouped by day, paginated |
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| `templates/grid.html` | Flat square grid at `/grid/`, paginated |
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| `templates/day.html` | Single-day page at `/day/<date>/` |
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| `templates/album.html` | Album (tag) page at `/album/<slug>/`, paginated |
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| `templates/albums.html` | Album index at `/albums/` |
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| `templates/photo.html` | Single photo page, neighbour links and prefetch |
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| `static/photo-nav.js` | Arrow-key and swipe navigation |
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| `module.nix` | NixOS module (systemd service, tmpfiles, nginx vhost) |
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| `flake.nix` | `buildGoModule` package + devShell + nixosModules |
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| `android/flake.nix` | Android SDK dev shell (separate from the root flake) |
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## Gotchas
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- `.gitignore` patterns here must be anchored. An unanchored `photogallery` also matches the Kotlin package directory `android/app/src/main/java/ws/inflo/photogallery/` and silently swallows every source file in it.
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## What's not done yet
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- ActivityPub federation (planned later — start with RSS/Atom)
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- Multi-image upload
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- Delete/edit via UI
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- Any auth beyond nginx htpasswd
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- The Android app has never been run on real hardware
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- Photo-page swipe has never been tested on a real touchscreen; the iOS Safari edge-gesture interaction is the untested part
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