Building photo-dedupe: a local-first burst-photo cleaner in Go
Burst mode leaves you with seven nearly-identical frames and no easy way to pick “the good one.” photo-dedupe is a small offline Go CLI (plus an optional local web UI) that does that triage: cluster by capture time, group the shots that actually look alike, keep the sharpest and highest-resolution frame. Nothing is ever deleted — losers move to a quarantine folder for you to review. What’s worth writing up isn’t the algorithms, which are well-known, but how cleanly the problem splits into independent, testable stages, and how much of the design is really about safety: a readable JSON plan, a move instead of a delete, a one-command restore. ...