Deep work session in the AM after packing up the Revy airbnb. Pushed some new features to the website that I think show good progress.

Designing the Portfolio

I took the time to select and lay out the photos I want as an overall photography "portfolio" a couple weeks (17 days, to be precise) ago, thinking that was the "hardest part", and everything else would come a lot more naturally.

Realizing now that we sometimes incorrectly estimate rate-limiting steps, and that ends up as a fat roadblock for a while. To be fair, I have been more focused on other parts of the website, so a big part of the delay is really prioritization, but even still.

Finally took the time today to grind it. Honestly not too bad, had the LLMs going ham on it for a bit. Wanted to take part of this entry to log some general approaches for scaling that I'm using, since honestly, photo placement is a huge part of portfolio design (I think back to prepping for crits in photo class and a good amount of energy was spent for me on the layout).

Started with a rough overview (as shown above) of the order of different pics, then had Claude actually create what ChatGPT spit out in terms of layout

I had thought about margins last night, so I started with that (even though it actually moves the needle signifcantly less). Simple formula for the margins, we just set a margin floor of X px, then scale the margin if it exceeds the floor as 10% of the size of the shorter dimension.

For the actual layout, I thought up a simple algo to fix the spacing (although it's pretty inefficient, at $O(N^2)$)