Sign in

Ahmed Soliman

@solimaniac.com
558 followers 303 following 417 posts

eng @ doordash / gamer / nerd mostly tech, open source, and programming sometimes pictures of the cosmos

PostsRepliesMedia
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 27/09/2026
feed the robots.ᐟ
010
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 26/09/2026
another feed to add to the list of Discover alts! genuinely surprised at how good the posts it surfaced were out of the box experience may vary, I am a chronic post liker (bluesky's drilled the feedback loop into me more than any other platform so far)
120
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 23/09/2026
walkie talkie voice to text input feat. teenage.engineering x handy.computer
220
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 18/09/2026
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
130
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 18/09/2026
love to see @gandersocial.ca assuming the title of the first associate member of the open web in Europe
0101
Reposted by Ahmed Soliman
Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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.
23473120
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 09/09/2026
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
240
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 06/09/2026
love this little atmosphere primer on @leaflet.pub
Tooltip explaining the Atmosphere at a high level in simple & easy to understand terms, it reads:

"The Atmosphere is a growing ecosystem of social apps, like Leaflet and Bluesky.
One account gets you into all of them."
080
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 06/09/2026
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
The Pelican Nebula (IC 5070)
2215
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 31/08/2026
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
010
Reposted by Ahmed Soliman
Dominik Biedebach @bdbch.com · 25/08/2026
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 screenshot showing two posts of Ahmed - one with aurora borealis in Canada and one of a map showing canada with a lot of clouds and him saying "Ontario when there's something cool to see in the sky"
121
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 12/08/2026
ontario when there's something cool to see in the sky:
A weather map showing heavy cloud cover over Southwestern OntarioShaquille O'Neal make a "time out" hand sign
2254
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 12/08/2026
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!)
Close-up portrait photo of a red fox, staring out into the distance
221
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 10/08/2026
bluesky with a 10:16 aspect ratio is a TREAT, feels like your own little walkie talkie to the web on the outer screen of the galaxy fold 8:
120
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 10/08/2026
intentionally* missed notifications
LinkedIn "Missed Notificationa" system notification stating: "See updates from LinkedIn that you may have missed"
020
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 23/07/2026
when Apple comes out with a passport-shaped iPhone Fold, and everyone says Samsung beat them to it never forget who *really* did it first
Samsung Galaxy Fold 8 foldable smartphone opened to its inner display, held in one hand.BlackBerry Passport smartphone with a square touchscreen and physical QWERTY keyboard.
110
Reposted by Ahmed Soliman
shahaan @shahaan.me · 20/07/2026
woke up with a sore neck, a bad knee and an ankle injury sleeping remains the most dangerous activity of my day
041
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 16/07/2026
IC 1848: The Soul Nebula Captured last weekend under Bortle 3 skies with a dual narrowband filter and 30 × 300-second stacked exposures! #astrophotography
The Soul Nebula, shown as a large red-orange cloud of gas and dust surrounded by stars against a dark sky.
2227
Reposted by Ahmed Soliman
oliver @eikopf.com · 01/07/2026
letting claude ssh into your infrastructure feels so good when you don't have some nerd in your ear telling you it's a bad idea
1222314
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 01/07/2026
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
110
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 29/06/2026
seeing the Fold 8 has only made me realize just how much we need a physical keyboard on the outer screen of foldables this is the final form of foldable phones, it just makes sense
An edited concept image of a white Samsung Galaxy Z Fold smartphone opened flat on a gray grid background. The left side shows the back panel with a dual-camera setup, while the right side features a black screen with a physical QWERTY keyboard edited onto the bottom. Bold white text below reads "PEAK FOLDABLE".
120
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 28/06/2026
confidence in botters has hit an all time low
A text-based verification form. The text reads "Are you human?" followed by the math question "What is 8 + 7?". Below the text is an empty rectangular text input field for the answer.
110
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 23/06/2026
suddenly having a newfound appreciation for my @xbox.com
Screenshot of a Steam notification email which reads, "An item on your Steam Wishlist has just released!" Below it, large light gray text reads "Steam Machine."Screenshot of a product configuration matrix displaying pricing options in Canadian dollars (CDN$) 

A baseline 512GB storage tier priced at CDN$ 1,509.00.

A 512GB w/ Controller bundle tier, adding a premium for the accessory to total CDN$ 1,628.00.

A higher-capacity 2TB storage tier priced at CDN$ 1,919.00.

A top-tier 2TB w/ Controller bundle tier priced at CDN$ 2,038.00, which is the actively selected option on the screen.
020
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 21/06/2026
the snap marketing team really put in the WORK on the new glasses
A close-up, right-side profile of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel wearing thick, glossy black Snap Spectacles AR glasses against a plain, textured gray background.Marketing photo of musician Jack Harlow posing with his hand under his chin, wearing the Snap Spectacles AR glasses. Jack's hair, the angle, and the perspective of the shot mask the thickness and overall lack of style of the glasses.
230
Reposted by Ahmed Soliman
Samuel @samuel.fm · 27/05/2026
my slack process
Slack message that is saved for later, due 4 months ago
1484
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 04/05/2026
new blog post! all about dev tooling
solimaniac.com
"The IDE is Dead, Long Live the IDE" - solimaniac
With the rise of agents, terminal emulators are quickly evolving into a lot more than just interfaces, here's a glimpse into where they're headed!
140
Reposted by Ahmed Soliman
Dan @d4m1n.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
there is only one correct way to redesign GitHub and this is it
651789249
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 29/04/2026
was really only a matter of time! curious to see what other OSS projects follow suit mitchellh.com/writing/ghos...
mitchellh.com
Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub
010
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 22/04/2026
know this is old news by now, but @frame.work pushing out new hardware without gatekeeping it from existing customers will never not be epic
010
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 22/04/2026
with all the claude code pricing discourse here's a reminder that opencode.ai/go exists and kimi k2.6 is just as good as opus 🤌
opencode.ai
OpenCode Go | Low cost coding models for everyone
Go starts at $5 for your first month, then $10/month, with generous 5-hour request limits for GLM-5.1, GLM-5, Kimi K2.5, Kimi K2.6, MiMo-V2-Pro, MiMo-V2-Omni, Qwen3.5 Plus, Qwen3.6 Plus, MiniMax M2.5,...
030
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 21/04/2026
just got through the last chapter of The Dark Forest, and wow... not at ALL what I was expecting! awesome book, super fun read, maybe even the all-time peak of science fiction?!
010
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 19/04/2026
Calling this one the Bortle Wallbreaker
000
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 19/04/2026
side project got out of hand, accidentally invented a puzzle that's probably impossible to fully solve
A dense field of light-blue circles of many sizes scattered on a white background. Each circle represents a star from one of 88 constellations. Star positions and circle sizes are preserved within each constellation but all constellations are overlaid, forming a complicated (and probably unsolvable) star puzzleAn alternate view of the puzzle that makes overlapping stars clearer to identify and distinguish
220
Reposted by Ahmed Soliman
spencer chang @spencer.place · 14/04/2026
the firehose if everyone was just DMing you
1120830
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 12/04/2026
neat app! very opinionated take on the coding workflow, really the first one I've seen that takes it a step further than "run multiple agents in parallel" been using this for work the past two weeks and getting a lot out of it, blog post soon!
themaestri.app
Maestri · A new kind of terminal app
Orchestrate multiple AI agents, terminals, sketches and notes on one infinite canvas. Built for macOS.
130
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 12/04/2026
civilization destroys itself and all that's preserved are the sacred learnings on building B2B SaaS
131
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 10/04/2026
shoutout to whoever is building @popfeed.social! one of the quickest atproto app downloads I've ever made managed to replace other tracking apps I've been using for *years*
popfeed.social
Popfeed
Track, review, and discuss your favorite media on Popfeed.
020
Reposted by Ahmed Soliman
niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 02/04/2026
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
38068051799
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 02/04/2026
crescent Earth! what a view from Orion, space exploration will never not be the coolest thing ever #artemis
Live view from the Orion spacecraft showing part of the white spacecraft structure and engine nozzle on the left side of the frame, with a thin crescent Earth glowing against the blackness of space on the right.
140
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 01/04/2026
the children yearn for the mines the code yearns to be open sourced
120
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 15/03/2026
first blog post on @leaflet.pub! digging into some of the recent buzz around that OpenAI developer blog from last month
solimaniac.com
Harness Engineering: What It Might Mean For Your Job
Software engineering is going through an Extreme Home Makeover™, what it will look like in 2 or 3 years?
152
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 14/03/2026
the internet's suddenly cool again, how long did this take to make??
010
Reposted by Ahmed Soliman
npmx @npmx.dev · 03/03/2026
the heart of open source is human
413219
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 04/03/2026
photos I managed to capture of the lunar eclipse this morning! had some trouble focusing the camera during totality, but still such a cool thing to experience for the first time! #astrophotography
A partial lunar eclipse with a dark, curved shadow covering the top half of the moon, leaving a bright white crescent below.A total lunar eclipse, or "Blood Moon," glowing orange-red against a solid black sky.
1366
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 22/02/2026
can't win them all, still a lot to be proud of though 🇨🇦 the energy at the watch party downtown was sublime
Photo of Scotiabank Arena during the Canada vs. USA Olympic Gold Men's Hockey watch party
140
Reposted by Ahmed Soliman
Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 19/02/2026
Man I really need to go back and watch this show again
35517
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 16/02/2026
never been one for vim or emacs keybindings, but all the agent CLI tools have me doing everything out of the terminal lately having to open intellij or zed just to see or tweak something is starting to feel like a hassle stumbled on this neat rust-based cli editor: getfresh.dev
getfresh.dev
Fresh - The Terminal Text Editor
Fresh is a fast, modern terminal text editor with intuitive keybindings, syntax highlighting, and instant startup.
120
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 07/02/2026
gone but not forgotten february 7th, 2038: "Learn more about upcoming changes to Google Search"
support.google.com
Learn about upcoming changes to Gmailify & POP in Gmail - Gmail Help
Gmail will start removing support for the following features: Gmailify: This feature allows you to get special features like spam protection or inbox organization applied to your third-party email
020
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 31/01/2026
the views out of Whitehorse last weekend
Green aurora borealis over snowy mountains and a frozen valley in Whitehorse, Yukon, beneath a star-filled night sky.Bright green northern lights glowing above snow-covered mountains and frosted trees in Whitehorse, Yukon.
418420
Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 02/01/2026
fortunately for me and unfortunately for the wallet this now exists
crackberry.com
This is the new Clicks Communicator… and BlackBerry fans, we need to talk!
Clicks just announced their new Clicks Communicator and it is GLORIOUS. This the post-BlackBerry QWERTY your thumbs deserve, and you can reserve it today!
060