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
🙋♂️ so, what are the git forges you are using - or want to be using? asking for … reasons. (would appreciate sharing for reach)
👇 I am open to work! I have over 7 years of experience as Software Engineer and have worked with Python, Typescript, React, and basically every main cloud provider. I'm open to any remote position, and my DMs are open
David Marcos, today's profile of the day on Sifa. Go take a look 👇 @noz.am
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)
Sci-fi author Becky Chambers is set to visit Utah for the first time.
A famous sci-fi author is coming to Utah for the first time. Here’s why it’s a big deal for a local bookstore.
Sci-fi author Becky Chambers is set to visit Utah for the first time.
sltrib.com
So uh… I didn’t set the right ISO for my shots last weekend… better luck next time
Want money to make your dream game? AT Jam Dole is funding two-week prototypes for unemployed game devs experimenting with #atproto on new titles! 👩💻 Selected games will receive cash, review from freelives.net and a festival showcase at playtopia.co.za Apply by Oct 25th: atmosphere.games/jamdole 👈
10/10 would recommend trying the MR. RECORDS Demo, it was a delightfully beautiful game! store.steampowered.com/app/4869950/...
MR. RECORDS Demo on Steam
Meet George, an old dreamer with an extraordinary gift that lets him transcend through music. After a lifetime of standing still, he breaks free from routine and opens the store he always wished for....
store.steampowered.com
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. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
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 🧪🧬💻
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.
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
Unexpected to see the plugin registry built on ATProto but I’m super happy to see it!
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!
"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 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
We already adopted "Human Voice" for @tanstack.com Query. Please adhere to it when contributing 🙏
Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏
Shoutout to @pds.dad for saving my team with @lexidraw.app today. We needed a way to collaborate on an Excalidraw doc and were just exporting it via Slack, luckily Lexidraw saved the day!
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.
@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.
this why I laugh any time people ask me "won't slop be insecure" my sibling in christ, where do you think they learned to code insecurely from
a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world
Cut a new release for the @arabica.social MCP that adds support for recipes! Thanks to @ethanholz.com for the contribution! Check it out! npmx.dev/package/@ara...
@arabica-social/mcp - npmx
Local MCP server for interacting with arabica.social records
npmx.dev
Quote of the day regarding AI: "You can be confidently wrong, faster"
The hacking tools the chatbot companies are developing stand to carry on this very stupid tradition. It *is* scary, but not because the chatbots are waking up. It's scary because the world's IT systems are indifferently created and poorly maintained and riddled with vulnerabilities: xkcd.com/2347/
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xkcd.com
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