In order to get working software sooner, I’ve decided to write the data to a csv file. This will allow us to get cracking on the photos without having to wait for the completed project. And for some people, a csv file will be enough. The database will just be extra complexity. But there is The full story here…
Photo Consolidation Project – Traverse Files
We need to walk through a file tree, going down into each subfolder. For now I am just logging the file path to the terminal. The source folder is hard coded, and it is in Windows format. But it should automatically work for other operating systems.
Photo Consolidation Project – Get a Hash
I decided to get the md5 hash of a file. This is pretty much unique. It ignores dates or file sizes which may vary depending on different systems. But it will identify a file as different if it has been resized. There may be a reason to keep different sizes of files – if you The full story here…
Photo Consolidation Project – Plan
We have our requirements for our tool to find new photos. Now we need to figure out how we are planning to do it. What technologies will we use, and what are the moving parts.
Photo Consolidation Project
Over time for one reason or another electronically stored photos have been replicated on numerous different devices (phones, PC’s, laptops, tablets, servers and backup disks).
Gardening in Northern England
I’m slowly learning how to grow veg – very slowly – extremely slowly. So these notes are to help me improve. If you want expert advice, this might not be the right page for you. 
Animal Easter Eggs
After about a decade and a half, I finally found a reason to try my hand at making Easter eggs again. I decided to pull out my old Easter Egg moulds and dust them off. Well maybe not dust, but chocolate them off. Making chocolate bunnies and other animals is a slow business, but a The full story here…
Raspberry Pi to ESP32
A backcopy of Hackspace showed how to use the Raspberry Pi to an ESP 32, in order to control it via Python. Unfortunately the article was too old and the build command didn’t work. Rather than try and unpick the thing, I went to find a newer, working tutorial.
Catering for an Afternoon Tea
I volunteered for catering, and making notes so I do better next time.
Elderberry Wine Recipe
This time I have tried to be a bit more scientific about it. Note to self, please upload some pictures. Thank you Countryfile for the recipe. Here is my take on it. It takes a few hours – lots of messing around – don’t try and rush it.