YOITSAGRB is a web service that sends you a Yo whenever a gamma-ray burst occurs in the known universe. With our current gamma-ray observatories, humans detect a new GRB every few days, give or take.

This page has the source code that drives the web app. See the main site for a non-programmer’s description.

The file grb.py is the main one. There’s absolutely nothing fancy: we get GCN email alerts, and translate them into Yos.

Philip Cowperthwaite and Peter K. G. Williams.

Most definitely. The source files are copyright Philip Cowperthwaite and collaborators, 2014, but they are all (including this one) licensed under the permissive, open-source MIT License.