Ethan Holz

@ethanholz.com

Research Software Engineer Professionally building better infrastructure for molecular software. Thoughts my own Colorado based

big big big accounts and influential people here on bluesky were uncritically sharing this slop study because it confirmed their lazy biases about AI and its users this stuff continually turns people into participants in uncoordinated and unintentional misinformation campaigns

Thinking of cooking something up on Cloudflare Workers for organizing my film scans. I just want something simple with support for linking a scan to a stored physical negative and I have yet to find something that is low volume, low feature. (I really don’t want to deploy Immich)

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

Now that I have finished cleaning the old place, I will spending the next few days finishing Alan Wake 2, may stream it too honestly.

If you’ve seen me trying not to reveal what I’ve been working on the last few months, well, here it is 🎉 Our first big offering - aside from Atmosphere account hosting - is personal websites for researchers! Drop your must-haves, preferences, ideas, or questions about personal/prof sites below 🧪🧬💻

Aster ID@aster.id · 2w ago

The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.

It’s incredible to look back at a photo from nearly a decade ago (on an old iPod Touch no less) and think about where I am today. Returning to photography has brought me so much joy. I can’t begin to express what slowing down and capturing the world has done for me.

A road running through a green and yellow with billowing clouds on a blue sky.

I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.

First steps of the PLC organization - Public Ledger of Credentials Organization

One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credenti…

blog.plcred.org

"We have built a plugin registry that is secure, but not controlled by a central authority. To do this we built it on top of AT Protocol (atproto) [...] We provide a default plugin store, but anybody else can create one that is compatible and can provide all the plugins in the network" Hell yeah 🌀🔥

EmDash CMS@emdashcms.com · 2w ago

EmDash 1.0 is here! A modern, secure CMS, built on Astro as the spiritual successor to WordPress. Plugins run in secure sandboxes, and the distributed plugin registry is powered by Atproto!

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

And it just works™ on Nuxt! 💚 I am so happy to finally see that Nuxt/Vue/Vite DevTools are now fully orthogonal while united! So we no longer need to rebundle Vue/Vite-specific features into Nuxt DevTools, and users can get the full experience of each level's integrations.

Arlo@arlo7.me · 3w ago

@vuejs.org DevTools v9 Beta is out! 🚀 ✨ Reactivity Relationship Graph ⚡ Performance boost · 📦 80% smaller packages 🧩 Built on Vite DevTools & Devframe And more... check it out 👇

A new COSMIC App! COSMIC Viewer was released today. Browse your library, crop, and annotate your images. Get it in COSMIC Store. Available in Pop!_OS and coming to your favorite distro soon.

it would be so much easier to be excited about the immense technological progress that LLMs bring to the table if the frontier labs weren't total assholes