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A Photo Site That Generated Itself From a Folder A Webpack script that turns a folder of photos into a static site with responsive image variants. Mostly here as an excuse to talk about walks. 2026-04-27 Summer 2016
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./_assets/photos.jpg Screenshot of a generated photography site.
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Static site generation
A photography site that updated itself when I dropped new images into a folder general

A Webpack script that took a directory of full-size photos and produced a static site with multiple resized variants per image. Drop a new photo into the source folder, run the build, get a deployable site.

The reason this exists at all: I take walks with a camera. Most of what I shoot isn't good, but the act of walking slowly with a frame to think about is the most reliable way I know to come back with an idea for whatever I'm working on. The site was an excuse to make that habit visible.

If I rebuilt it today I'd use Astro, which is what this site runs on.