knoppers.icu 📷

A programmatically generated photography archive powered by knoppers.icu.gen.

Read about it here: chronicpizza.net/posts/knoppersicu.

Goal:

To create a responsive and fast web service for previewing and downloading high-res JPEGs of my photography.

Why:

Google Photos charges extra if you want to upload original, uncompressed JPEGs. So does AWS, eventually, but I don't mind because I'm having a little fun with it.

Google Photos also can't be used as a janky image host for my website, www.chronicpizza.net, meaning that I have to redownload, resize, and in general fumble around with photos for another time before I can use them.

Solution:

A Hugo site whose posts are generated by a Python script scraping an s3 bucket and doubles as an image host for my blog.

Result:

• Stupid-fast loading of massive photo galleries (100+ images) thanks to a thumbnail preprocessing Lambda
• Zero maintenance website with split-second deploys easily handled by a single cronjob
• Able to have my photos accessible to normal people (and myself) online by just uploading to s3, and not another website.

Screenshots:

homepage

this is how users. . . like to download things. . . right?

Inner Machinations:

infrastructure overview

s3 bucket structure