Today was nother gray november day, like most days in Denmark at this time of year, there is a reason that we really need our D-Vitamin ! 🙂 On the northern hemissphere ! Its also very hard to make good pictures in that light i think.
I was out for a short walk to see a local photo exhibition by a local photographer, who takes some great pictures in my hometown. You can find his website here
This is my catch on the way to the exhibition caught with my trusty old Fujifilm X-T4
This evenings last photo, walking past a coin laundry close to my house, which is a nice little time capsule, i came across this and could not resist a little street photo. The combination of her and the text on the wall was simply to good 🙂
Finally weekend, and time for a small photo walk through the town, its november in Denmark, and the dark arrives early in scandinavia.
I like the early dark for pictures, but i dont like much for anything else 🙂 Night starting at like 16.00 Hours is sapping some mental energy !
The genre is street , and the camera is my little favourite Fujifilm X-100V, enjoy the pictures
I had the issue of this blog, that it was created over many many years, with years of inactivity also, that many off the pictures were pretty large and not optimized for any web usage. Huge pictures of +15 megabyte takes a loong time to load on slower connections. There are at the current count 6750 pictures in a many different folders under the /upload folder in WordPress. So getting to them one by one would take for ever. But at the moment im taking an online Python course, which i very much recommend by the way ! 100 days of code
You can find it here.
So after some time on the course, it came to me that with the knowledge i have learned so far, and some searching on StackOverflow and Google i could couple something together myself with the help of the Python Pillow Library which has a lot of functions for manipulating images 🙂
So the pictures are now optimized, and you can find the script here https://github.com/anderskeis/PyCompress on my Github profile. Take a copy down of your /upload folder it Github and try on your own risk 🙂 Do a backup before, IT WILL OVERWRITE YOUR PICTURES! it should ignore anything it cannot optimize. And then re upload to your blog again. Works with any pictures folder, but only tested it on Linux, so good luck 🙂
Well i needed i project to geek out on a little, cause i bought at little home NUC for my home, and needed a project for it, and i was tired of not having enough disk space on wordpress.com for my pictures for the blog. And i wanted to geek out a little and actually build something i liked
The specs for the little monster NUC is:
NUC10I7FNH Frost Canyon,
i7-10710U, 6 cores, 12 threads,
64GB RAM (2×32)
Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1TB (m.2) og Samsung SSD 960 EVO 2TB.
And it now runs Proxmox for virtual Machines and Linux containers, and the moment i just run the a couple of Linux containers, and is connected to my old Synology, which runs InfluxDB and Grafana for metrics from the Proxmos System. And its all hooked up via Cloudfare for secure publication and easy access.
So you might expect a little writeup/guide on how i set it up. Working on the security part, as im suddenly running it all myself again 🙂
