Projects tagged "photography"
This page highlights several of my personal software projects.
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rawr September 2026
An insanely fast RAW viewer for culling photos on macOS.
I take a lot of bird photos, and it's not unusual for me to come home with thousands of RAW files - usually shot in bursts. Choosing the few worth keeping takes a long time, so I wrote my own app for it. Naturally, speed was the top priority.
rawr is a native macOS app written in C++ and Objective-C, using Metal for rendering. The main trick is that RAW files contain an embedded JPEG preview, so there's usually no need to decode the actual RAW data. You can hold down an arrow key to fly through 45 megapixel photos and it has no trouble keeping up!
But there's more to it than just being snappy! Photos are automatically grouped into bursts. rawr can align the frames in a burst so that the subject holds still, which makes it much easier to compare them. It also measures the sharpness of each frame at the focus point to help find the best one.
It's currently in private beta. See the website for more details.
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