ben strawbridge

I’ve launched Gordon Landreth Photography, a digital gallery showcasing my grandfather’s photography from 1931 through the 1990s. The site contains 48 photo albums with over 3,400 scanned pages.

The most useful feature is the search interface that lets you find photos by searching the typed captions on each album page. Search for names, places, dates, or events and get instant results with thumbnail previews. No backend required - everything runs client-side using OCR-extracted text and fuzzy matching.

For those interested in the technical implementation, I wrote up a detailed project writeup covering the OCR pipeline, search architecture, vision models, and UX decisions.

The landscape of AI coding assistants is evolving rapidly, and two recent developments from Steve Yegge are particularly interesting: Beads and Gas Town. These innovations address one of the fundamental challenges facing coding agents today: maintaining context and memory across sessions.

Limit your home page feed by Section, Category or Tag

You can now set params in your hugo.toml file to keep any pesky pages off your homepage that you may not wish to promote for whatever reason.

Check out the new Ingredients Taxonomy pages

Using Taxonomy effectively

As part of the recipe template configuration being developed for The Ryder Theme for Hugo websites, a new taxonomy is created for ingredients. Ingredients are not the same as recipeIngredients; they are defined as an array in the front matter. I didn’t want a taxonomy page generated for every single recipe ingredient, so I created a separate variable. The recipeIngredients are used to display the ingredients on the page and for the recipe schema, ensuring the pages are properly displayed as recipe rich results in Google and other search engines.