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found the default balance between posts from following & other posts to be very good!

seems like only amazon.com has the bot wall, all the Amazon regional sites (i.e amazon.ca) load normally for Muse this is what it sees on the US site:

@mysky.social bonus points for these settings, this is awesome!

Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 24/09/2026

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)

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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!

gist.github.com

ptt.swift

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 23/09/2026

walkie talkie voice to text input feat. teenage.engineering x handy.computer

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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

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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

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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.

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Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 10/09/2026

IIRC they've been working on a foldable for well over a decade now, the tech just wasn't quite there before

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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

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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."

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Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 06/09/2026

Sloely putting together all of this year's data up on solimaniac.com/astro

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astro - solimaniac

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

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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

Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 28/08/2026

soon™, I imagine with permissioned data support this is back on the table in the meantime, @germnetwork.com?

Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 26/08/2026

You've got better luck than me on that front haha, I've tried a number of times to spot/photograph them at home in southern Ontario but with no luck so far!

Dominik Biedebach @bdbch.com · 25/08/2026

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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 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"

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Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 13/08/2026

amazing, it's graysky lite™️

ontario when there's something cool to see in the sky:

A weather map showing heavy cloud cover over Southwestern Ontario

Shaquille O'Neal make a "time out" hand sign

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they gotta meet their accidental cyberattack quota for the week

shout out to @shahaan.me for actually spotting the little guy!

Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 10/08/2026

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

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inner screen is nice too but no support for landscape mode or any UI tweaks for larger screens

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:

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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"

Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 24/07/2026

ironically the new dream phone is the baby of both of these 💀

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.

shahaan @shahaan.me · 20/07/2026

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woke up with a sore neck, a bad knee and an ankle injury sleeping remains the most dangerous activity of my day

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Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 16/07/2026

Some behind the scenes night-lapse action from the night! The GoPro surprisingly managed to capture a strong outline of the Milky Way!

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.

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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

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Ahmed Soliman @solimaniac.com · 01/07/2026

the app is still rough around the edges; the UI needs work, feeds are buried under too many menus and taps, you can't migrate accounts or interact outside the Gander community, and the main algorithm leaves a lot to be desired that being said, this is only the start, and a very strong one at that!

Product roadmap titled "Where we are and where we're headed":

New: French language UI, GIF keyboard, Active Conversations feed, discovery cards, sponsored feeds

Now: Feed fixes, camera UI update, accessibility updates, dark mode, public + private groups, browser version

Next: Full AT Proto interoperability (highlighted in blue), sensitivity screens, threaded posts, Nests v3, migration tool, stories, creator tools, analytics, subscriptions...

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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