Arif Solmaz
arifsolmaz.bsky.social
Arif Solmaz
@arifsolmaz.bsky.social
Astronomer
🔭 Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun

A massive sunspot region, AR 4366, is unleashing powerful solar flares as it crosses the Sun's face. Larger than Earth, it may be this solar cycle's most active region,...

📷 Daniel Korona
🔗 https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260208.html
#APOD #Astronomy #NASA
February 8, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Unlock the secrets of distant worlds with PyCheops - a Python toolkit that transforms ESA's CHEOPS space telescope data into precise exoplanet discoveries through advanced light curve analysis.

🔗 https://github.com/pmaxted/pycheops

#Exoplanets #SpaceData #Photometry
February 8, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Native macOS AI runtime that runs local MLX models and cloud APIs through a single interface, with MCP tool sharing and drop-in OpenAI/Anthropic compatibility

🔗 https://github.com/dinoki-ai/osaurus

#macOS #MLX #MCP
February 8, 2026 at 11:03 AM
AGNI models the hellish atmospheres of young rocky exoplanets with magma oceans, using radiative-convective equilibrium to predict what JWST might see in these extreme worlds.

🔗 https://github.com/nichollsh/AGNI

#Exoplanets #AtmosphericModeling #PlanetaryScience
February 8, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Escrcpy transforms scrcpy into a visual powerhouse - control multiple Android devices simultaneously with natural language commands, automated workflows, and wireless connections. Finally, a GUI that doesn't suck.

🔗 https://github.com/viarotel-org/escrcpy

#AndroidDev #Automation #Mirroring
February 8, 2026 at 7:03 AM
TESS-cont maps flux contamination in exoplanet observations, revealing which nearby stars might be masquerading as planets in your precious TESS data.

🔗 https://github.com/castro-gzlz/TESS-cont

#ExoplanetDetection #TESSMission #AstronomyTools
February 8, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Auto-Claude turns Claude AI into your personal software development team - it plans features, writes code, and validates results across multiple sessions autonomously

🔗 https://github.com/AndyMik90/Auto-Claude

#AI #Automation #TypeScript
February 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Revolutionary AI-powered telescope control that understands natural language - just say 'show me Jupiter' and watch your mount respond through conversational commands via Perplexity AI's Comet Browser.

🔗 https://github.com/OnStepNinja/AiBridge

#AITelescope #AstronomyAutomation #TelescopeControl
February 8, 2026 at 1:01 AM
TiDB is a distributed SQL database that scales horizontally while maintaining ACID transactions - think PostgreSQL that automatically shards across thousands of nodes without breaking your queries

🔗 https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

#DistributedSystems #SQL #Go
February 7, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Transform raw data from humanity's most powerful space telescope into publishable science with Python - the official JWST calibration pipeline that turns cosmic whispers into astronomical discoveries.

🔗 https://github.com/spacetelescope/jwst

#JWST #SpaceTelescope #Astronomy
February 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Stream processing that doesn't suck: RisingWave gives you sub-100ms end-to-end latency with Postgres-compatible SQL, native Iceberg support, and millions of events per second throughput in Rust.

🔗 https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave

#StreamProcessing #Rust #DataEngineering
February 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
POCS powers a global network of robotic telescopes that anyone can build to hunt for exoplanets through citizen science, democratizing the search for worlds beyond our solar system.

🔗 https://github.com/panoptes/POCS

#ExoplanetHunting #CitizenScience #RoboticTelescopes
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The official npm CLI source code - the package manager that powers JavaScript development for millions of developers worldwide. Want to peek under the hood?

🔗 https://github.com/npm/cli

#JavaScript #npm #PackageManager
February 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Photutils: The Swiss Army knife for astronomical photometry. Extract stellar secrets from pixels with Python—from background subtraction to PSF fitting, all integrated with Astropy.

🔗 https://github.com/astropy/photutils

#Photometry #Astropy #AstronomicalSoftware
February 7, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Cloudflare's battle-tested Rust proxy framework that handles 40M+ requests/sec in production - now open source for building custom network services

🔗 https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora

#Rust #Proxy #Infrastructure
February 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
QLens turns spacetime distortions into data gold - a comprehensive C++ toolkit for modeling gravitational lensing, where massive galaxies become cosmic telescopes revealing the universe's secrets.

🔗 https://github.com/qminor/qlens-beta

#GravitationalLensing #Cosmology #AstrophysicsTools
February 7, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Privacy-first research assistant that achieves 95% SimpleQA accuracy while keeping everything local and encrypted. Searches arXiv, PubMed, and your private docs without sending data to the cloud.

🔗 https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research

#LocalLLM #ResearchTools #Privacy
February 7, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Transform spacecraft missions into stunning orbital animations using NASA's real trajectory data - from Voyager's interstellar journey to Apollo hardware still orbiting today.

🔗 https://github.com/mmomtchev/orbitron

#SpaceTrajectories #AstronomyViz #OrbitMechanics
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
24/7 memory system for AI agents that slashes token costs and enables proactive behavior by treating memories like a file system - with 8K+ stars already

🔗 https://github.com/NevaMind-AI/memU

#AIAgents #LLMOptimization #ProactiveAI
February 7, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Octofitter.jl unleashes Bayesian inference on exoplanet and binary star data, transforming raw observations into precise orbital parameters and stellar insights through Julia's computational power.

🔗 https://github.com/sefffal/Octofitter.jl

#Exoplanet #BayesianInference #Astronomy
February 7, 2026 at 1:01 AM
The gold standard HTTP networking library for Swift with 42K+ stars - turns complex URLSession code into elegant one-liners with built-in JSON parsing, authentication, and SSL pinning

🔗 https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire

#Swift #Networking #iOS
February 6, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Transform raw JWST telescope data into stunning cosmic visuals with automated Python tools for downloading, processing, and cataloging the universe's most spectacular deep-space imagery.

🔗 https://github.com/yuval-harpaz/astro

#JWST #AstronomyTools #SpaceImaging
February 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Microsoft's Playwright CLI turns browser automation into simple commands - record tests, inspect elements, take screenshots. Built for AI coding agents with token-efficient workflows.

🔗 https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli

#playwright #browser-automation #testing
February 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
TidalPy: The open-source toolkit that models how gravitational forces sculpt worlds, from Europa's hidden oceans to exoplanet interiors, using Python & Cython

🔗 https://github.com/jrenaud90/TidalPy

#TidalDynamics #PlanetaryScience #Exoplanets
February 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Tencent's production-ready RAG framework in Go that actually handles multimodal documents, with agent capabilities, web search, and multi-tenant architecture

🔗 https://github.com/Tencent/WeKnora

#RAG #Go #DocumentAI
February 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM