[ The Person Behind The Code ]
I am a working photographer. Live concerts, events, weddings, since 2010. I have also been writing code since 2007, back when it meant losing diopters over HTML, CSS, JS and PHP. Italian, hyperactive, a geek with a good eye and an insane passion for live music.
RedLnx is what happens when those two halves stop pretending they are separate people. I got tired of renting my own tools by the month. I got more tired of the quiet arrangement where, to get your photos edited, you hand your catalog to a cloud. So I built the editor I always wanted, alone, a few hours a day after the real job.
Every line is reviewed, tested, and decided by me. AI tools helped me write the code; they are instruments, not authors, the way a camera is not the photographer. I hate forms, I do not collect cookies or any of that, and RedLnx is built in my image: it does not either.
[ The Thesis ]
A RAW is not a photo. It is a person. The faces of the people who chose you. The coordinates of where you live and work. The hours you keep. The way you see, built over years.
Upload a catalog to be edited in the cloud, and all of it lands on machines you cannot audit. Look at where those services keep their headquarters. Look at what else gets built there, by companies in that same line of work. I am not going to spell it out. If you have been paying attention, you already understand.
This is not paranoia. It is reading the terms you were never meant to read.
[ LOCAL / AUDITABLE / FREE ]
The Doctrine.
RedLnx is the other way. Local: your catalog never leaves your machine. Auditable: the source is AGPL-3.0, read it. Free: no subscription, no tier, no paywall, every feature for everyone, forever. A corporation that wraps RedLnx into a cloud service has to release the whole stack under the same terms. The license is the doctrine, written in legal code.
[ // FOR THE RECORD ]
My actual life goal, for the record, is to live long enough to take a photo as good as the
Windows XP wallpaper. Everything past that is // TODO.