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11 Nov 2025

Rob 1 min read

I've recently upgraded my MacBook Air to macOS 26 Tahoe and one thing I noticed was that Rodeo's rules were no longer working. With the help of exiftool, I worked out that when exporting to JPEG from Photos for macOS 26 Tahoe, the Object Name, Caption-Abstract and Keywords IPRC properties were no longer being populated. This is a regression from…

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31 Dec 2023

Rob 3 min read

As we finish 2023 and look forward to 20024, I have had an enjoyable time looking back at the photos I took throughout the year. As with the last 10 years, I have managed to take a least one photo every day as part of my Project 365, which allows me to remember what happened during this year of my…

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15 Aug 2023

Rob 1 min read

I'm a huge fan of ExifTool for manipulating EXIF data in images as it really is the Swiss Army knife for all things metadata related with images. Recently, I wanted to strip some privacy-related metadata from some photos; specifically location, people and keywords. That is, I wanted to keep the title, the camera settings, the creator, and so on, but…

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12 Oct 2013

Dave Cheney 5 min read

When developing Go packages that rely on specific features of the underlying platform or processor it is often necessary to provide a specialised implementation. Go does not have a preprocessor, a macro system, or a #define declaration to control the inclusion of platform specific code. Instead a system of tags and naming convention defined in the go/build […]

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