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Alexy Khrabrov

Alexy Khrabrov

29 Jun 2026
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phidentify

phidentify

One word, six questions: phidentify gives a photo file separately named identities, from whole-file SHA-256 to Lightroom Classic's original fingerprint, and never lets one stand in for another. 0.2.0 adds an image-data identity that survives capture-time edits to camera raws, TIFFs and JPEGs.

By Alexy Khrabrov 04 Nov 2026
diskproxy and stable camera ingest with virtual disks and WebDAV

diskproxy and stable camera ingest with virtual disks and WebDAV

A Leica ingest failure became a Rust proxy with stable timestamps, WebDAV, streamed virtual disks, and plugins that adapt filesystem views without rewriting photo data.

By Alexy Khrabrov 27 Oct 2026
Reading across languages in Obsidian: FirstPair Reader and Triptych

Reading across languages in Obsidian: FirstPair Reader and Triptych

FirstPair Reader and Triptych, now open source: Obsidian plugins for reading a book in its original language beside its translations, word by word, and for comparing drafts of one text.

By Alexy Khrabrov 27 Oct 2026
Sail runs Doom on DataFusion with a single query

Sail runs Doom on DataFusion with a single query

Sail is a Spark-compatible compute engine written in Rust on Apache DataFusion: PySpark and Spark SQL clients connect to it over Spark Connect, and DataFusion executes what they send. This week Sail played Doom. Freedoom's first level, 1,200 tics of it, ran as one SQL query:

By Alexy Khrabrov 12 Oct 2026

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