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My Exif Manager app (Linux)After scanning a roll of film, I like to add camera make/model/lens exif data to the files. For years, I've done this via exiftool using the command line. It's not hard, but I thought I'd see if Claude Code could whip up something a little nicer to use. Turns out it could. Launch the app, open a folder, choose from a pre-defined list of my cameras and lenses, and write the exif info to the files. It took Claude maybe 30 minutes from my prompt to a working app. That's all I needed it to do, but I got a little fancy and added captioning, which many photo apps make more difficult than it should be. Speaking of making things difficult, some apps (::cough Darktable::) don't deal well with metadata during export, so I have my app allow me to write the information to already-exported files based on file name. Let's say I have Darktable export a bunch of images to ~/Pictures/Export but those images lose their captions (it happens!). I tell my app where the exported…

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