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By default anyone can upload to a gallery but they are identified by hard-to-guess UUIDs. This makes passing galleries around SMS or any chat platform very easy but one thing I did not expect is groups forming long-lived persistent galleries. Once you have more than one or two of these they become hard to keep track of.

I am currently working on an app with optional accounts for end users to (1) keep track of multiple galleries (2) allow iPhone live photo uploading (no way to do that within Safari) and (3) allow iPhones to upload pictures with metadata which Apple strips from all Safari uploads.

Here's a demo gallery with uploading disabled:

https://shareable.photo/73f4b812-51bd-42de-99f6-c58f65b18ae1...

Comment · 3 years ago

It's a handy thing to have in your toolbox https://xkcd.com/530

Comment · 4 years ago

Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone (the comedy podcast) had scientist Ralph Harvey on to talk about collecting meteorites in Antarctica in episode 208. He made the point that any rock you find out there lying on top of the ice is probably a meteorite and there are scientists out searching for meteorites that have collected in water channels formed from melting ice in the warmer seasons.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-208-the-land-way-do...

Here's an article that also interviews Ralph Harvey:

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/hunt-meteorites-resear...

Comment · 4 years ago

Cool concept!

I bet there's a way to reassemble the entire book from it, though. For example "Show me the first paragraph of chapter 4." returns—what seems to be—the actual requested value.

Comment · 4 years ago

A photo sharing website for high-trust groups. Only the album creator needs an account, then they can share a hard-to-guess link with the group members allowing them to upload photos. Anyone with the link can upload and download. Before this the best solution my groups had found was a shared Google Drive folder.

A band rehearsal recording management website. Uses much of the same code as the previous. Suggests the canonical names for songs based on the file names. Songs can be searched by name, date, or tag (any arbitrary value). This replaces a shared google drive folder with subfolders by recording date (great to find the most recent run through a of songs, bad to find the best run through of any given song)

Comment · 4 years ago

What you need is a remote controlled finger for pressing YubiKeys: https://bert.org/2020/10/01/pressing-yubikeys/

Comment · 4 years ago

This has been a problem with NYC's bike share program, CitiBike. The solution was to add an alert when your phone's location is far from the location of the bicycle you are trying to unlock.

> Citi Bike says it is aware of a scam in New York City in which thieves are switching the QR code stickers on rental bicycles in order to steal bikes unwittingly unlocked by customers. The scammers wait for a renter to unlock a bicycle using the QR code, then ride away on the bike to which the code actually belongs, officials said.

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-nyc-state-wire-34d4ecd5...

Comment · 4 years ago

More anacedata: GeForce now over Ethernet is significantly better than Wi-Fi 6 in my apartment building.

Comment · 4 years ago

15 network requests, 247 KB transfered

May I recommend as a lightweight alternative http://shrug.io which weighs in at a whopping 799 bytes transferred.