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Zac Swider

@zacswider.bsky.social

Biologist turned programmer. Working on data pipelines for high throughput imaging. Mostly posting about Python and Rust but no guantees :)

344 Followers  |  850 Following  |  125 Posts  |  Joined: 05.02.2024  |  1.7354

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Friday night lights

19.07.2025 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks!

05.06.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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...

05.06.2025 03:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t recommend it, I’m falling back to a macro because whatever FIJI is doing can handle the *several* different formats masquerading under the same file extension

05.06.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Had a convo with someone yesterday who dismissed Python as β€œnot a real language” and β€œa scripting language”.

Python is everywhere β€” the web, machine learning, analytics, devops, embedded systems, mobile, etc.

04.06.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 1

Any ideas @psobolewskiphd.bsky.social ? this was partially motivated by one of your napari plugins

04.06.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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There has to be a better way to open .lut files right??

04.06.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Effortless

30.05.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I love Dask

29.05.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

github.com/zacswider/me...

20.05.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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/

19.05.2025 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Many such cases

19.05.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also adjust low/high points while color mapping πŸŽ‰

18.05.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Building soon - adding support for 3D and u16 images to github.com/zacswider/me...

18.05.2025 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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

16.05.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Measles doesn’t seem that fun to get tbh

25.04.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

24.04.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 :)

19.04.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks interesting, have you tried it?

13.04.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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🐍

11.04.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow this is super cool thanks for sharing!

11.04.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amaziiiiiing I love matplotlib πŸ₯°

11.04.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Probably! Anything ready for use?

11.04.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wow blending brightfield and fluorescence is always such a pain

11.04.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yep been there πŸ˜’

10.04.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What did they do this time

10.04.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reason #42 to use a split keeb - multiplexing side projects

10.04.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s still a little half baked, but hopefully very soon

10.04.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

10.04.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

:(

07.04.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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