Hi everyone!
After a few years break from conventional social media, here to see if I enjoy this more.
I am a PhD student in cosmology. When not at my desk you can probably find me in the local climbing gym, cooking some vegan food, reading, playing boardgames or spending time outside doing more climbing, hiking, bike packing.
Might use this account for talking about science, hobbies or both.
Originally from Germany currently living in Denmark.
It's that time again where I am asked to write an author bio. What do we think of:
Dr. Amy is the single greatest mind of her generation. She came here to chew gum and fuck things up, and she is fresh out of gum.
New app. PixStrip - batch image processor for Linux. Resize, convert, compress, strip metadata, watermark, and rename. A step-by-step wizard walks you through everything so you don't need to know what you're doing to get good results.
Full CLI for scripting. Fediverse resize presets for Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Lemmy built in.
Rust + GTK 4, native on GNOME. WCAG 2.2 AAA accessible. Free, CC0 public domain. Runs locally.
New app. EchoBoard - a self-hosted feedback platform. Your community can submit ideas, report bugs, and vote without ever creating an account. No email, no sign-up wall, no tracking. Just show up and participate.
Self-host with Docker. Plugin system, roadmap, changelog, webhooks. WCAG 2.2 AAA accessible. Free, CC0 public domain. Privacy by design.
https://apps.lashman.live/echoboard/
Running it for real for my own apps here, not a demo:
https://echoboard.lashman.live
TIL: over two dozen Philip K. Dick stories are in the public domain because their copyright was not renewed
https://philipdick.com/2012/04/03/public-domain-philip-k-dick-stories/
Partial lunar eclipse starts in 2.5 hours, total lunar eclipse starts in about 4 hours. Will I manage to stay awake? (Haha no. But I'm going to pretend I will stay awake!)
Made a new thing. ZeroClock - time tracker with invoicing. Runs off a single SQLite file on your machine. No accounts, no cloud, nothing phoning home. Nobody else sees your data.
Completely free, not "free tier" free. Portable, CC0 public domain, WCAG 2.2 AAA accessible from the ground up. No VC money, no subscription, no catch.
Whether you freelance or just want to know where your hours go, give it a look.
Alexander Oestreicher
Dr. Amy, Psy.D.
lashman
vga256
Prof. Sam Lawler
The Public Domain Review
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