rhoopr

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Feb 8

https://github.com/rhoopr

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Comment · 5 months ago

Love to see Crosspoint get a callout here, loving it on my X4 - and a tiny bugfix PR of mine made it into latest :)

Comment · 5 months ago

Not as I see it - this is a generally undocumented API surface not meant to be called programmatically like this, unfortunately. Every iCloud photos sync tool does/will hit this same restriction (icloudpd, rclone, etc).

The only possible unproven alternative is adopting the one-hour token generated by Apple which goes through ADP, but assuming that even works, that defeats the purpose of the app being more than a one-shot.

Comment · 6 months ago

I continue to be working on kei, my cloud->local photo/video sync engine.

iCloud Photos is fully baked along with implementing their completely undocumented SyncToken. I’m doing some QoL work in the next few weeks, tightening up some early architecture decisions, and then adding more providers (Immich, NextCloud, Google Takeout… else TBD).

Since last time I posted this, two other people contributed and I’m almost at 100 stars! That’s some dopamine.

https://github.com/rhoopr/kei

Comment · 6 months ago

This is an interesting perspective on something I haven’t considered at all for applications I’ve built, honestly. I’m going to take it in and make changes wherever possible.

Comment · 7 months ago

iCloud-photos-downloader is unmaintained and starting to crack due to Apple API changes so I’m working on my own fork/rewrite/take on iCloud sync, with ambitions to add Google Takeout, Immich, and other services too.

https://github.com/rhoopr/kei

Named after my ‘96 Subaru Sambar kei truck, small and mighty. The other thing I’m constantly tinkering with :)

Comment · 7 months ago

Hemingway’s Rule 5: don’t blatantly use LLM output in an article about writing.

Comment · 7 months ago

“The camera is the least important element in photography.”

Comment · 7 months ago

There’s an interesting conversation to be had about ad sponsorship on web content when the share of people just getting summarized results from {LLM chatbot of choice} is increasing and siphoning actual views.

Comment · 7 months ago

This site features one of the worst fonts I’ve ever seen.

Comment · 7 months ago

This is chaotic. I love it.

Comment · 7 months ago

Unfortunately, icloudpd is now unmaintained -- alternatives are around, though

Comment · 7 months ago

Live photos are just .mov sidecar files. There are a variety of iCloud export tools you can use to move to self hosting, including mine (shameless plug) - http://www.github.com/rhoopr/icloudpd-rs

Comment · 7 months ago

Let me tell you about my rock that keeps tigers away…

Comment · 7 months ago

This seems more like he is bad at describing what he wants and is prompting for “a UI” and then iterating “no, not like that” for 99 hours.