Ooh I’m interested in the news about the Apple foundation model. I’ve been using the tiny Gemma 4 E4B model via omlx for local translations and it’s pretty good. Gemma is really good at translating Korean to English, and it often understands context and culture. Replacing that with a model that ships with the OS would be fantastic.

Update on X3Fuse: I made a ton of progress on X3Fuse in May, but most of it was contained to the conversion engine, which is now open-source at: https://github.com/sagwaco/x3fuse-core/.

I ported the Kalpanika team’s cpp app to Rust and patched some changes that were bugging me along the way:
- Fixed extreme color casts on overexposed images in the Merrill generation
- Made DNGs compatible with LibRaw (previously, apps using LibRaw would crash when opening converted DNGs)
- Removed the OpenCV build dependency from the previous cpp app. Now uses precompiled binaries from opencv-mobile to power denoising, with a pure rust FastNLMeans denoiser implementation on the way.
- Added an intensity parameter to control the denoiser
- Now compiles for Windows, Linux, WASM, and iOS!
- Flat cineon-like profiles for TIFF users who want a flat image for color grading.

Now that the core is in a good spot, I can finally continue working on the GUI. First priority is making it multiplatform (windows, linux, macos, web), then adding some QOL features like image previews and automatic conversions. Then, finally an iOS and iPad app so that I don't have to lug my MacBook around.

🌁 #sanfrancisco #photography

My dog (the mayor) escorting me to the voting booth

I'm working on a simple natural language -> one-line bash command converter and I thought I was so clever to name it `plz`: `plz rename photos and prefix with the date and camera`, `plz organize files into subfolder by type`, etc.

Well it turns out a bunch of other people had the same idea so it's called pretty-plz now instead https://github.com/sagwaco/pretty-plz

I'm late on the news, but I can't believe Destiny is finally dead. I think I have like 5,000 hours of playtime across Destiny 1 and 2, but I couldn't bring myself to come back after Lightfall.

The game changed way too much between seasons and losing access to content was pretty bad. Weirdly enough now that they aren't updating it anymore I might actually pick it up again.

🌁 Another foggy evening in SF. Shot in color on #leica M10-R #sanfrancisco #photography