This is an exploratory project meant for myself; no warranty, no support.

What I'm trying to do here is building a meme renamer. A program that will help me easily go through my meme folder and give the million different jpegs a new name.

A neat idea I've come up with for that is: circumvent any kind of OS specific gui shenanigans by making it a http server. Sacrilege, I know. I hold the opinion that if anyone has figured out how to do good GUIs, it's web-developers. Not by competence but by brownian motion and the invisible hand of the market. They had to figure out how to render interactive widgets on screen for decades and, as much as a "real" programmer might dislike this, are doing an alright job of it (framework bloat notwithstanding). So rather than fiddling with nasty maybe-maybe-not crossplatform tools, I offload that work onto Google and Mozilla.

From there the core idea is simple. Start the server in a directory (your meme folder), and start serving one image after another, along with a form for things like name and description (maybe fiddle with exif data? idk).

• server recognizes properly formatted image names and won't offer them for renaming.
• skip button
• all lowercase renames? -> command line option/ checkboxes on the site?
• suport video formats

chores that have cropped up

No one here but us chickens

• add css to handle screen width
• basics:
  • shows images that are in current directory
  • has an input form
  • renames files
  • shows next image after rename
• name can be written like a sentence and get reformatted to snake_case without any weird chars.
• support more file types than just jpg -> now also png!

If it's gonna happen anyway, might as well plan for it.

1. navbar to the side, that shows images to be renamed.
2. neat htmx auto-check if a filename is taken.
3. preview of what the name will be reformatted to.
4. maybe put extra metadata into the files?
5. cmdline args to control various things (e.g. port to run on)

This project is dependency free and compiles to a standalone, placement independent binary.

    go build

or using make

    make
    sudo make install

    # if not installed
    <path to binary>/memerenamer
    # else
    memerenamer