Memories

A static photography gallery for @thedataareclean. Pulls photos from Glass.photo and local files, builds with Eleventy, deploys to GitHub Pages. No database, no server.

Every photo has a plain Markdown sidecar for editing title, description, tags, and EXIF overrides. Drop a photo in local/, edit its sidecar, run build — done.

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Quickstart

npm install
# Set your Glass username and site URL in config.js
npm run dev        # → http://localhost:3003

Full command reference: COMMANDS.md

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Folder map

Path	What's here
config.js	All site + build configuration
_data/	Data pipeline — fetches Glass, processes local, outputs JSON chunks
_includes/	Nunjucks layout shell
src/	Templates, styles, scripts, Atom feed
build/	Build-time modules: EXIF, watermark, OG image, sources
scripts/	CLI utilities: rename, Glass sync
local/	Drop photos here — auto-processed on build
glass-sidecars/	One .md per Glass photo — auto-created, edit freely
launchd/	Weekly Glass sync agent for macOS
dist/	Build output — not committed

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Adding photos

Glass — set glass.username in config.js. Sidecars auto-created in glass-sidecars/ on first build.

Local — drop image files into local/. On build: auto-renamed to YYYY-MM-DD-local-slug.ext, sidecar created, 800px thumbnail + 2400px display + watermarked download generated.

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Photo metadata

Edit the sidecar .md file for any photo:

---
title: "Bougainvillea."
tags: [street, bengaluru]
overrideExif:
  camera: "Fujifilm X-T50"
  lens: "XF23mmF2 R WR"
  focalLength: "23mm"
  focalLength35: "35mm"
  aperture: "ƒ/2.8"
  shutterSpeed: "1/250s"
  iso: 400
dateTaken: "2026-03-09T08:57:02Z"
---

Description shown in the lightbox and on the photo's permalink page.

Leave any overrideExif field blank to fall back to what Glass or EXIF provides.

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Docs

File	Contents
README.md	This file — what it is, how to start
APP.md	Architecture, data pipeline, design system, deploy model
COMMANDS.md	All commands, copy-paste ready
CHANGELOG.md	Version history
FUTURE.md	Ideas backlog
CLAUDE.md	Operating instructions for Claude