p.simianer.de/blog

Occasional write-ups of things I set up and tried out.

4 posts, newest first.

  1. Vibecoded imaging pipeline for processing stitched 4x5 film scans AI-generated

    4x5" sheet film is shot and "scanned" with a digital camera on a copy stand. A sheet is too big to capture in one frame at the desired resolution, so each one becomes four overlapping frames in a 2x2 grid, and from …

  2. Ollama generated captions with PhotoPrism Vision AI-generated

    The previous post described how photoprism-vision was set up with Ollama, so that Photoprism can use a local vision LLM for captioning. Back then Gemma3-4B and qwen2.5vl were in use, and both were, well, not great. They …

  3. Setting Up PhotoPrism Vision

    I manage most of my photographic output with PhotoPrism. It's wonderfully simple, I can manually (or automatically sync them in this structure from my phone, using the PhotoSync app for iOS) organize my photos in …

  4. Home WiFi Setup With 802.11s (Meshing) And 802.11r (Roaming)

    Moving to Berlin, during the apartment hunt, my wife and I learned about particular type of apartment that's apparently specific to Berlin (at least within Germany): In old buildings [Altbau] the apartments are often …