Kenneth Reitz • 4/9/2026

Building a Home for Twenty Thousand Photographs

This article details the creation of photos.kennethreitz.org, a platform for organizing and displaying 20,000 photographs. The author describes using Django 6, Python 3.14, PostgreSQL, Tigris for storage, and HTMX for a minimalist frontend. The project emphasizes a 'for humans' design philosophy, focusing on seamless user experience and the recursive relationship between tools and perception. It covers technical architecture, AI-generated tags, and the motivation behind building a personal photo archive after the decline of photo-sharing communities.

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