Tagging Tumblr Likes

One of the main features I wanted for the ffffound archive serving site was automated tagging, because it was missing entirely on that site (as it is on Pinterest and others that followed it). That’s great for simplicity in saving, but it’s not so good for discovering what’s in there.Tumblr does have tagging, so it’s tempting to think this isn’t as important for the likes archive. It’s true that tags are possible, but not everyone uses them, and what the reblogger (or creator) tags something could be very different from the tags I’d choose. So I set out to apply a similar process.This time, I decided to use a local model instead of Gemini. It was almost embarrassingly easy; install Ollama, download gemma:26b, and point at it via a REST API. The only trick was to make it callable from other machines required starting with a OLLAMA_HOST environment variable to get it to listen on 0.0.0.0 rather than localhost.One drawback of this is that it’s slow - it’s taking up to a minute per post.…