Winding Down Old Projects

• 29 August 2024
• Engineering  
• Photography  
• Django  
• Python  
• Lambda  
• AWS  

Today I deleted an entire module from my infrastructure terraform repo, the one that related to my photography project. It was always massively over-engineered and at this point in my life I can’t justify the cloud costs. Everything is gone except the media in the buckets and a big pg dump.

A list of my favourite features;

• You could request an upload image in any size, and even whether it was greyscale or not, using lambda@edge which was then cached at the CDN.
• A ton of html improvements which were all new to me, that helped remove FAUC issues.
• Audio files could be uploaded and paired with images which, when overlayed with each other were quite evocative. This is a big influence for my next project.
• Lots of quality-of-life archiving tools built into the existing Django admin functionality which other users couldn’t see, but made keeping my photos organised really helpful (and was the original reason for buildin it).
• The clean full-page photo aesthetic I really liked, it’s another thing I want to build into upcoming projects.
• No ads, no opinions, no reactions, no reels.