Automating a Smart Bird Feeder's Photo Archive with Kubernetes and Immich

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

My Bird Buddy smart feeder takes a photo every time a bird visits. Over a few months, that adds up to thousands of images — all sitting in Bird Buddy’s cloud app with no good way to search, organize, or back them up. I wanted them in Immich, my self-hosted photo library, organized by species and properly timestamped.

Fixing 10,000 Upside-Down Scanned Slides with a Local Vision LLM

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

My grandfather had about 10,000 35mm slides. I rented a SlideSnap X1 and spent a weekend feeding them through — 33 boxes worth, organized into folders by box. The scanner itself was great, but when you’re pushing through thousands of slides in a weekend, some inevitably go in upside down or backwards. No metadata, no EXIF orientation flags — just thousands of JPEGs, some right-side up, some not, sitting on a NAS.

Photography on Rusty Bower

Automating a Smart Bird Feeder's Photo Archive with Kubernetes and Immich

Fixing 10,000 Upside-Down Scanned Slides with a Local Vision LLM