Mellowtech Photos is my personal photoblog. It also serves as the homepage for mellowtech (see below). There are a lot of photo blogs out there - instagram, flickr, photobucket, etc. None, however did what I exactly wanted. Namely to

  • Take full advantage of exif information stored typically in your jpegs
  • All editing (including meta information) done in lightroom
  • Offer a tight integration with Google Drive

Technical Detail

This website uses Go for the backend and React/Next.js as its frontend. You can find the code in the following projects

The frontend is built using:

A big thanks to the following libraries and tools that made this project possible:

Mellowtech

mellowtech came into existence back in 2002 when Martin Svensson and Rickard Cöster (then 2 phd studends) decided to start a software company. A great deal of time was spent on finding a good name, in the end we ended up with mellow - we thought it captured what we were about. A lot of relaxing and at the same time producing solid (actually another name we had in mind) and mature code. As with many other grand ideas running a company while doing your phd did not turn out to be the best of ideas, especially since we mostly wanted to create cool stuff.

In the end one the company died but the idea of mellowtech prevailed. It has been a playground for fiddling with things such as, disc based search and sort, key-value stores, social graphs, oauth & openid and blog sofware. Some of it has lived for a very long time while other stuff have been developed recently.