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Ahmed Soliman
Ahmed Soliman
@solimaniac.com
eng @ doordash / gamer / nerd mostly tech, open source, and programming sometimes pictures of the cosmos
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I ran some LLMs through the Kamski test
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My thoughts on the current state of AI driven software development, why I'm no longer concerned about a runaway intelligence explosion, and what I think is a far worse outcome we could be walking into maevyn.codes/decoherence
one of my favourite things about atproto & the Atmosphere is this thematic push to 'make it your own' @blackskyweb.xyz is doing it with Acorn, Bluesky wants to do it with Spaces, and now @eurosky.social too we'll have a million different pockets of the web, all compatible with each other (fun!)
If you could want to make your own social app, you'll want mu Studio. Our vision isn't to build a massive single social app, but rather to bring media pluralism to social. And so we should have apps for all tastes that also work together. Some are coming, one could be yours!
shortlist of good stuff the @bsky.app team shipped this year (with probably only ~20 engineers?) while keeping the lights on - group DMs - draft posts - in-app post translations - new gif picker - @standard.site rich embeds - better trending topics - @attie.ai (some might sigh but genuinely useful)
for atproto: - OAuth granular permissions - network replay support through jetstream v2 - goat cli (PDS management, debugging, PDS account migrations) - private account & communities support through spaces (alpha) - account management in the PDS UI - new atproto.com site & docs - new typescript sdk
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walkie talkie voice to text input feat. teenage.engineering x handy.computer
doesn't work out of the box, but just needs a line-in adapter and a script to use mic activity as a signal for the handy PTT shortcut gist up here for a vibe-coded version!
tons of excitement for this behind the scenes talking to folks, the energy around this feels like a breakthrough on the same level as 3.5 sonnet everyone's looking for a way to fit this into their product/workflow
Message from our CEO: After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev
love to see @gandersocial.ca assuming the title of the first associate member of the open web in Europe
🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 • 🇪🇺💞🪿 I'm delighted to announce that @eurosky.social and our brilliant friends from @gandersocial.ca are partnering up! Ahead of Canada's associate EU membership announced by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu this morning, we'll be weaving our social internets closer.
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Dividing up AI users in 3 categories: Wizard: approaches AI academically & with appropriate guards & wards. Treats it like a tool. Warlock: Makes a pact for power with an alien entity without considering the costs. Is corrupted by the whispers. Cleric: worships their new machine god. Is insane.
This is warlockphobic. Shameful.
god that's clean best thing about Apple getting into foldables is that more devs will finally get their hands on one and maybe decide to whip up a tablet mode for their apps
looking at the iPhone Duo fold animation makes me wish that Windows 11 wouldn't re-arrange all my apps on my multiple monitors every time I resume from sleep 🥲
The Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) Still working through all the data from @nyaastarfest.bsky.social this year but really liking how everything's turned out so far! Captured using 40 stacked 5 minute exposures under Bortle 4 skies using a dual narrowband filter #astrophotography
Sloely putting together all of this year's data up on solimaniac.com/astro
bluesky needs some sort of atproto-powered plugin system, registered implementations & views of different PDS records made by devs in the community the @standard.site integration was the first step towards this, but anyone should be able to build these integrations
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This looks sick, I haven't seen an Aurora Borealis yet. Highlight for me was to be able to see a pinkish tint in the sky when I used my phone to take long-exposure shots of the sky here. Also ironic to have those posts next to each other haha. Over here in Berlin each night is just... black. 😭
A red fox, photographed last week on a trip to Bruce Peninsula. One of my favourites so far! Slowly putting up all my photos from this year on solimaniac.com/wildlife (thank you @leaflet.pub for the custom pages!)
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excited to see the launch of @gandersocial.ca! yet another example of @atproto.com being the go-to web foundation for social platforms and startups
We’d ask you to sign up for Gander. But honestly, we’d rather you didn’t. It’s Canada Day. Put away your phone. Talk to your friends. Get some fresh air. Touch grass if you can. It's what we'll be doing. Sign up for Gander tomorrow. It’ll still be here when you get back.
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