Zac Swider

Now up to v0.5.5, added thread safety for no-GIL Python, multithreading on the rust end for large images, support using external colormaps, support exporting internal colormaps, and more!

mergechannels 0.5.3 is thread safe with Python 3.14t. Keep those cores busy!

Friday night lights

mergechannels 0.5.0 adds support for passing colormap objects from cmap (github.com/pyapp-kit/cmap) or matplotlib in addition to built-in colormaps from FIJI, myself, @christlet.bsky.social and @jamesdmanton.bsky.social pip install mergechannels or build from github.com/zacswider/me...

Had a convo with someone yesterday who dismissed Python as “not a real language” and “a scripting language”. Python is everywhere — the web, machine learning, analytics, devops, embedded systems, mobile, etc.

Effortless

I love Dask

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Just pushed v0.3.0 which builds in the lovely suite of LUTs created by @jamesdmanton.bsky.social also installable directly into FIJI at sites.imagej.net/JDM_LUTs/luts/

Also adjust low/high points while color mapping 🎉

Building soon - adding support for 3D and u16 images to github.com/zacswider/me...

Mouse just died, time to see how good I can vim.

Measles doesn’t seem that fun to get tbh

Someday when I lead my own engineering team, the style guide will state that JSON must be pronounced with a French accent.

If you’re like me and want to use/blend FIJI lookup tables from Python you can now install mergechannels with pip or build from source: github.com/zacswider/me... This is a very *minimal* working implementation but there’s more to come :)

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Amaziiiiiing I love matplotlib 🥰

Wow blending brightfield and fluorescence is always such a pain

Reason #42 to use a split keeb - multiplexing side projects

Added next gen color flavors from @christlet.bsky.social and native blending for inverted cmaps github.com/cleterrier/C...

Baby steps! Autocompletion for built-in colormap names 👀

After 42 different re-writes of my config, I'm unironically using nvim now

configuring vim is free, but only if you don't value your time

Just learned of a new one a couple days ago

It's time to delete all the "test.txt", "trash.py", and "delete_this.pdf" files from your desktop

Programming with copilot/cursor is literally backseat driving. It's only fun if you have no idea where you're going.

Don't work on the same repo on three different devices. It just isn't a good idea.

Working on bringing FIJI lookup tables to Python

Just came up with a new app idea and opened BlueSky to this meme… but this time it will be different!

if I were santa, I'd construct the list and perform both checks in a single pass

+10000, some other recs based on academic code I've seen: 1. use type annotations by default. Will make it MUCH easier to debug later on. 2. variable names: t_transpose bad, explain what it means 3. PyTorch shape suffixes: good idea medium.com/@NoamShazeer... 4. enums good, dataclasses great

Solution - rent more gpus

I guess I can only train three models at once on this gpu :(

I feel seen. (h/t to @forrestbrazeal)

I tried to do AOC with Zig today and I think what I learned is that the Rust documentation is really good

Advent of code day 4 🦀 I’m not good at working with strings in Rust, performance is degrading quickly!

Advent of code day 3 🐍

typing.Literal is so underrated. Why claim that your function allows any string of only allows a handful of very specific strings?

Me, tonight, reading my code.

Advent of code day 2 🦀

Advent of code day 1 🦀

Joker (2019) was really good. The sequel was every bit as bad as the reviews would suggest :(

do not like that I need to load >120GB of data into memory in order to train a model :(

8th time is the charm…

Playing with moondream github.com/vikhyat/moon...

Trying instanseg next

How many different flavors of “structured illumination microscopy” are there these days?