Daddy, Cull! Keep the moments, clean the rest
Part 2 of a series: introducing the tool I built to organise photos and videos, choose what stays, and work through years of memories one date at a time.
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Tural Ali
I am a technical leader focused on building high-growth fintech platforms that simplify complex consumer journeys. I have an experience in TravelTech, PropTech and Fintech, both in startup and scale-up stages.
Giving my 60,000+ photos and videos a system
Part 1 of a series: why cloud-only photo libraries worried me, and how every camera and phone in our house now feeds one archive organized by date.
Building the HEIC Export Lightroom Classic Should Have
A native Apple HEIC export pipeline for Lightroom Classic with 8-bit and 10-bit output, metadata preservation, parallel processing, and optional Apple Photos import.
From paperless-gpt to Paperless-NGX v3: dropping a container, cutting complexity
Upgrading to Paperless-NGX v3, replacing the paperless-gpt side container with the new built-in AI configured for Gemini via the OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Includes the one embedding model gotcha that took me ten minutes to find.
Teach AI to say 'I don't know': how we rebuilt support triage
How we centralised a fragmented support operation and handed the most repetitive part of triage to an LLM, while keeping every judgement call with a human.
From Handwritten Standup Notes to Reminders, Automatically
From Handwritten Standup Notes to Reminders, Automatically I take my daily standup notes by hand on my iPad with the Apple Pencil. Handwriting keeps me present in the meeting — but it leaves me with
One Command to Rule Your Documents
I turned my entire Paperless-NGX stack into a single install command. One line, eight questions, and you get AI classification, encrypted backups, barcode tracking, and secure remote access - all production-ready.
How I Built a Fully Automated Document Management System with Paperless-NGX
How I built a zero-effort, AI-enabled document management system for a family