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Published by harper.blog (Harper Reed) (T1 source). The original is at https://harper.blog/2024/07/31/contact-management-in-2024-stupid-vcard-tricks-for-hackers/.

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Harper Reed describes managing thousands of personal contacts via vcard files and command-line tools (vdir), after commercial contact apps slowed or crashed at scale. He covers deduping, syncing, and treating contacts as self-sovereign local files.

Scriptable contact management is a gap most apps fail at past a few thousand entries. Concrete setup notes for hackers who outgrew Google Contacts and similar tools.

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