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Ethan Holz

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

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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 15h
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.
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 19h
As a gen z who is shooting (and learning to develop) film, it is the best!
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 29/09/2026
It can be pretty tough. Metering intake and straight up blocking helps but still not always a fun time.
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026
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.
blog.plcred.org
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…
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 28/09/2026
Unexpected to see the plugin registry built on ATProto but I’m super happy to see it!
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 28/09/2026
"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 🌀🔥
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
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
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Dominik 🔮 @tkdodo.eu · 25/09/2026
We already adopted "Human Voice" for @tanstack.com Query. Please adhere to it when contributing 🙏
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 25/09/2026
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!
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 25/09/2026
Super excited to play it! Finishing Alan Wake 2 this week so I can I pick it up next week!
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Anthony Fu @antfu.me · 25/09/2026
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.
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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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.
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 20/09/2026
Ooooh baby does Colorado look good on a 28mm lens!
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 20/09/2026
Looking forward to the full release!
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
a few more from sylvester, texas 🎞️ kodak gold
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 17/09/2026
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
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P(atrick) @pdewey.com · 16/09/2026
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...
npmx.dev
@arabica-social/mcp - npmx
Local MCP server for interacting with arabica.social records
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 15/09/2026
Quote of the day regarding AI: "You can be confidently wrong, faster"
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 14/09/2026
Beautiful photo! Kodak Gold looks really good on this!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
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/
xkcd.com
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 13/09/2026
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
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Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 12/09/2026
i understand and i hate it :( some other atapp is doing this actually...who...found it!! currents.is/login i like this a bit more just because it points out "Login with your Atmosphere account" proceeding bluesky/blacksky/eurosky though i'd prefer something for the or that's more like
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 13/09/2026
Back on my drip life
A Frankly Coffee mug with a cat logo sits on a sunlit wooden picnic table.
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 12/09/2026
NOOOOOO THAT IS THE WORST
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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Cosmic EXT Connect community applet is getting a fresh design soon. It's looking awesome! It uses KDE Connect for the backend and integrates with your phone via the KDE Connect app.
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Sam Gutentag @samgutentag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Pull up this talk by @cmgriffing.bsky.social on auto generated MCP servers. He found a blog post trashing auto generated MCP, written by the same people who built the tool that generates it. #CYC26
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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 11/09/2026
If the 2026 NWSL regular season ended today, this is what playoffs would look like. ⚽️ Drop your playoff predictions in the comments! ⬇️
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 11/09/2026
If more of a push is needed… folks should check out @arabica.social to log and share brews!
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 11/09/2026
Easier than ever to leave substack!
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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At system76 we had a different vision for the Linux desktop - in particular at the DE level - how to design it, how to develop it. So we built it. That's it. No insults or drama. The year of the Linux desktop is coming. And it will be thanks to the efforts of the entire Linux desktop community.
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 11/09/2026
Been a long time supporter of S76. My first “programming” laptop of my career was them and it taught me so much about Linux and that we can have good products on Linux. I am consistently jealous of my partner’s Thelio 🤣 Always proud to see a Colorado business make cool tech!
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 09/09/2026
Whoa hold on a minute this sounds fun
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Orhun Parmaksız @orhun.dev · 07/09/2026
Doing radio diagnostics in the terminal! 📻 sdrtop — A terminal monitor for SDR hardware 💯 Real-time spectrum, waterfall, signal measurements, IQ/RF diagnostics, band sweeps & more 🦀 Written in Rust & built w/ @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/musithang/sd... #rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 01/09/2026
This is awesome!
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tierney cyren @bnb.im · 01/09/2026
this is maybe an all time favorite shot I’ve taken
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 31/08/2026
Uh wrong Ethan it seems.
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 30/08/2026
I'm really frustrated by the constant fear-mongering about AI-designed superviruses. Can we focus on the things that should actually worry us, such as measles? blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/im-sorry-y...
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus
God save us from economists who think they can competently talk about biology
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 31/08/2026
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 30/08/2026
No I think that’s perfect! I realistically just want to take this MCP server wired to harness and model with image support to run OCR on coffee bags to fill the form.
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P(atrick) @pdewey.com · 30/08/2026
also I'm going to release an @arabica.social mcp tomorrow, stay tuned.
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 30/08/2026
Interesting! Any preview on what gets exposed to users?
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Ethan Holz @ethanholz.com · 30/08/2026
Successfully moved the mini rack to a new house and it was the easiest setup of my infrastructure in my life. All I need to clean up is the power situation and I’m set.
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austin @aparker.io · 29/08/2026
the problem is that you really don’t know what the tradeoffs of the friction are until you remove it. github demonstrated that if you remove friction you can scale up — oss with tens of thousands of contributors, hundreds of maintainers, all more or less coordinating well.
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Jo Franchetti @thisisjofrank.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Today is my last day with the Deno team 🦕💖💔 I know they're gonna keep making awesome things. But now *I* need to make awesome things for someone else! If you're looking for a DevRel with a JS focus and extra sparkle, get in touch!
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Sophie @localghost.dev · 29/08/2026
Returning to owning things in a streaming world: buying CDs again (and rediscovering some old loves) localghost.dev/blog/returni...
localghost.dev
Returning to owning things in a streaming world - localghost
In 2011, I sold my CD collection; in 2026 I bought it back again. (Well, the good bits.)
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/08/2026
Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.
Instructional image titled "Hide your posts from non-followers in Discover" accompanied by a screenshot of the "privacy and security" options from the Bluesky settings menu. "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is toggled to the "on" state.
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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.me · 27/08/2026
SUPER interesting! Systems are hard.
blog.ricci.io
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About AT Protocol and Bluesky - Stuff Rob Wrote
I've been interested in atproto (the protocol that Bluesky, Blacksky, and many other applications - including pckt, where this blog is hosted! - run on) for abo...
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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 26/08/2026
yeah i've been saying. we need a new venture backed company to rebuild the linux desktop. ground up, all the plumbing and porcelain bits. venture backed because grants are few and far between, and unstructured OSS clearly hasn't worked here. we need a new, consistent, coherent system.
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Sarah Perez @sarahp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web
techcrunch.com
Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web | TechCrunch
Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization tools into Flipboard’s growing open social web ecosystem.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/08/2026
I think every major company is looking at open weight AI models and realizing they can just bring them in house with an internal engineering team and cut out the frontier model companies to save money. They have more control and privacy. I really don't see frontier labs surviving this.
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