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I wanted something sharp, expressive, and truly independent, so I put together Oaklens OS and open sourced it under MIT (free). It is built for anyone wanting a personal archive or field log without handing the keys over to a walled garden like my old provider SquareSpace.

The public pages run on native HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript with zero build steps, zero third party scripts, and self hosted typography. It deploys to a single Cloudflare Worker or exports to a flat zip that runs locally in your browser with no server required. Take your site and work anywhere.

The console works right in your browser ( can be installed as a PWA / how I use the console on my phone/desktop). You can drop RAW or JPEG files in, and EXIF and GPS get stripped locally before anything touches the wire. Lose signal and it holds your work and picks back up when you are online. It also includes native multi track audio playback to pair ambient field recordings and music directly with visual sets.

Pulse system that are quick customizable updates that pin to the multi-featured home card system. We all have a 'mood' lol

Ships with 5 themes. Code is yours to change as you see fit! You own it.

Feeds are there from day one, and there are two of them. An Atom feed for writing that reader apps find on their own, and a separate RSS 2.0 podcast feed for audio, because podcast apps need real RSS and will not take Atom.

There is a live interactive demo and install guide at os.oaklens.art The repository is open for anyone to grab, strip down, or adapt however they want.

Soft release, any feedback is appreciated! TGIF -Nick

Some of you might remember FIXXER here a while back. That was me. There was a death in the family not long after and I stepped away from most things, that account included, so the username is new but I'm not.

What I've been working on since is the thing I publish my own photography with. It's open source now, MIT.

Portfolio, field notes and print drops, running as a single Cloudflare Worker. No framework, no build step, no third-party JavaScript on the public pages, and the fonts are self-hosted, so a visitor's browser never talks to anyone but you. The install ships the whole thing, back end and front end, with five templates to start from.

Most of the work went into the console. Drop JPEGs or camera RAW in the browser and they're live in seconds, EXIF and GPS stripped on the way out. Lose signal and it holds your work locally and resumes when you're back. Export hands you the whole site as a ZIP that runs from file:// with no server and no network.

os.oaklens.art

This is a soft release, so I'd welcome any thoughts. Screenshot is the demo template, not my site.