#ClaudeCode : "Did telemetry win? Yes — unambiguously, and it's a little embarrassing for me. The bug was invisible to code inspection and to my local forensics." Want to develop faster with or without AI? Use OpenTelemetry. Avoid thrashing in the dark. When I develop Dart servers, Flutter apps, web apps in Vue or React, nginx, Docker containers, anything - my try/catches create OpenTelemetry (OTel) spans. Logs are exported as OTel signals and OTel ties them together across the stack from mobile to server. Since the OpenTelemetry standard is available everywhere (new to #Dart and #Flutter) it's easy to trace what happened from a user's tap, through layered services, into the database. AI eats it for breakfast especially because OTel defines Semantic Conventions. So it always knows to look for 'http.header" or "host.name". It doesn't have to grok what each service calls what. Dartastic.io - OpenTelemetry for Dart and Flutter #Dart #Flutter

"She was there when the nun died and dissolved into light." My post "Drying Wet Blankets", about the *science* of Yoga, is directly related. mindfulnomad.org/p/2025-09-1…

Affleck is just another guy educated in Massachusetts. 🧠💪

How do we know it's ageism? It's as obvious as racism. Compare how @ryanlpeterman is uncomfortable and offput when talking with an old person, even one he should respect - the inventor of PostgreSQL. This was a painful video to watch. Vs How engaged he is when talking to someone his age. This is not the only video where he looks like this at older people. If you know how to read microexpressions, you will see the disgust on his face. Many of his age peers would say it's violence. He leans back when talking with old people, leans forward when talking to younger ones. Kudos to Mr. Peterman for interviewing many older people. These are subconscious tendencies and we all have work to do. In our modern multicultural society tribalism can no longer be racial. Our clan can't be white people or Asian people because we live together. Many are mixed themselves, including my child and maybe Mr. Peterman. But we're still tribal. So our tribe is now our generation. This is leaving a lot of talent on the sidelines. Why are so many older accomplished software engineers with real skills delivering production software in many situations left on the sidelines and they could be helping businesses? **Until I was 45 I had exactly one interview where I was not offered the job.** (I was 24, the feedback was that I was so talkative I would distract other employees. Fair!) After 45 it's a 1 in 25 chance. After 55, it's a 1 in 100, maybe 200 or 500 chance, who knows? Same person, even better, what changed for the worse? My age. I'm not crying for me, I made a business. My numbers make it obvious. Many are hurting. Ageism has always been real. Now it's on steroids. When I interview I feel like I have to peel off the "Boomer" sticker on people's foreheads. Hey, kids - Boomers don't interview, they are all over 62. I'm 59 and GenX. Tell a young person that and they will tell you that all old people are "Boomers" that it's just a general term. When I was their age people threw around general terms for black people, Hispanic people, Asian people - and none of those were appropriate either. Back then, the N word was reserved for private conversation. But now, we can see your posts. All these generalisms hurt society. They take productive people out of it. It hurts business. Not all societies! Asians revere older people. Level up. Do better. Make sure you know that diversity comes not just from place but from time. Both influence culture. Multiculturalism means having old people bring old culture to business. It's desperately needed. Gen X doesn't treat a sneeze as a slight. They come to work everyday. They work together, like Gilligan's Island, not individually, like Survivor. Companies would be well-served by reducing ageism bias. The video: youtu.be/YPObBOwIrHk?is=vAhs…

This dude's more spot on than anyone. He makes number light up the world.

Scored this pressure cooker for "only" $68 because it speaks Spanish. I was looking for an even cheaper pressure cooker because I can use any of them. In the US you can get a cheap one for even $35 but maybe $50 is more typical. A fancier one like this would be about $100, maybe $120. And Europe would be €120 because items are just more expensive here. Why was this so cheap? It got a bunch of five star reviews, 4.5 overall, but in every review the French person said it worked great but complained about how it spoke Spanish and not French! It was almost out of stock. They can't give them away. I'm in the second largest city in France, Toulouse, and it's closer to Barcelona (260km) than Boston is to New York (310km). To the global go the spoils.

I came to France mostly because I thought my daughter would be safer in France than in the US. Now I am afraid for her to go to high school. What the "you're racist" people have to understand is that we were taught not to be racist. That's not universal.

A flock of birds is conscious. An avalanche is not.

This just happened to me and I am not even married. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Disasters avoided this week by reviewing Opus 5.5's work: - allowing anyone to elevate to admin privileges - every message sent to every mobile device in the fleet - crashing the OTel collector from stupidity - reusing a UI for a nearly identical purpose doubles the app code

This was awesome. Legend. Not picking on him but when you hug kids, crouch like a catcher. Heart to heart. They can't get up to your height, get down to theirs. It takes effort but they appreciate it without realizing.

I'm still walkin', So I'm sure that I can dance. Just a Saint of Circumstance. A Tiger in a Trance. Check out Saint Of Circumstance -> (7:57) from 1993-09-26 by Grateful Dead on @relistenapp: relisten.net/grateful-dead/1…

I've been a cardiologist for 25+ years. The last 90 days changed medicine more than the last decade, and almost nobody noticed. Here are the 10 biggest AI breakthroughs, and why you should be excited, not afraid 🧵 1/ 37,000 AI agents. One "virtual biotech." It analyzed thousands of trials, figured out which drug targets actually work in humans, and independently proposed a lung cancer strategy that a major pharma company later pursued. AI isn't a search engine anymore. It's a co-scientist. 2/ The first drug discovered AND designed entirely by AI (Insilico's rentosertib) just entered Phase 3. In patients, it reversed biological age by 3–6 years across six different aging clocks. Read that again! 3/ As a cardiologist, this one gives me chills. The FDA authorized "Queen of Hearts," an AI that reads a standard ECG and catches heart attacks, including the hidden ones doctors miss. 2x the sensitivity. Far fewer false alarms. It pages the cardiology team itself. In a heart attack, minutes are muscle. 4/ EchoNext spots 6 types of hidden structural heart disease from a cheap, 10-second ECG, and it does it better than cardiologists. It already flagged a patient who went on to get a heart transplant. Screening that used to need an echo lab now needs a test any clinic can run. 5/ UpDoc is the first FDA-cleared AI that talks directly to patients. It checks in between visits, adjusts insulin within limits the doctor sets, and documents everything in the chart. Chronic disease no longer has to wait for your next appointment. 6/ An autonomous AI agent called MIRA, with full access to medical records, went head-to-head with ER physicians on hundreds of real cases. AI: 87.8% correct Doctors: 78.1% It ordered the tests, read the results, and wrote the plan. 7/ Google released MedGemma 1.5 and MedASR, open medical AI for imaging and clinical speech that anyone can build on. Every hospital. Every researcher. Every country. Open models mean medicine moves at internet speed. 8/ The FDA authorized Aletta, the first robot that draws blood on its own. It gets the vein on the first stick 94–95% of the time, even hard veins. One technician supervises three robots. The most common procedure in medicine just got automated. 9/ UCLA's SLIViT matches specialists on 3D MRI, CT, ultrasound, and retinal scans, and it's 5,000x faster. It isn't a new model for every organ. One architecture reads them all. 10/ The FDA has now authorized 1,600+ AI medical devices. They cover radiology, cardiology, and surgery, including real-time AI that checks breast cancer margins while the patient is still on the table. This isn't coming. It's here. What this means to you: → Drugs that took 10–15 years are showing human results in a fraction of the time → Heart attacks get caught on a cheap ECG, not after a collapse → Doctors get hours back → Patients get answers between visits → Aging itself is becoming treatable This isn't "AI will replace your doctor." It's AI finally becoming good enough that medicine starts to compound. The next 18 months will feel different. Bookmark this. We're early. Stay positive!!!

Today I gave someone hope and direction that I'm pretty sure set them on a new course. 💪🏆

I don't greive coding because of AI. Why? Yoga. I code for others, not myself. We are one. That's what Yoga means - union. Yoking cows. Same root. I AM THAT. THAT IS ME. I don't take pride in building algorithmic monuments to myself. I make software to enhance people's lives. I serve others through software. The difference is real. I'm never the smartest guy on a team, but I always deliver good quality software that serves users well. I would say the vast majority of software engineers are the opposite - they code for pride. They rarely, often never, talk about users. They don't craft experiences, they craft designs to impress other software engineers. It's all ego. The hard part for me was delivering around the egos. It would be like a salesperson crafting the perfect chart for sales, and not convincing people to buy. It's like a lumberjack, proud of the body using an axe all day got him. Unhappy about the new chainsaw. Me? I'm cutting down firewood so the village can be warm. I'm happy to have a chainsaw now. I'm thrilled that AI does the little bits for me so fast that I can deliver great software far faster than ever. Everyday is a thrill now. Before, I was just slowed down from my mission by all the tedium. There is no loss for me. My mission has gained strength. No loss, just change. Meditators let things go and roll with it. Serve others, it's the way to happiness and fulfilment.

Ah, no. It's them, the French. I've lived in Paris and Toulouse for over a year total now. The nice people here are all Arab. Somehow they speak Arab, their own country's language, French and English. But the French can only speak French despite learning it from 3rd grade in school. I've been to 40 countries where I don't speak the language and only the French are this rude. You'll get better treatment anywhere in Asia, Latin America and any other EU country. Example from this week: I walk into a print shop, give them a 40 euro job. I introduced myself in my very poor French, told them what I needed in poor French, and told them the directions were on the USB stick, in a perfect French document, written by Claude, who is French, I assume. They used a few English words back, "twee in colur, twee in black and white." "Oui" "Come back in 20 minutes, get a café" I come back in 20 minutes, pickup and pay, all in his broken English. That's natural. Usually you switch to the most comfortable language for both. I came back the next day, "Encore, suel une." (Again, just one, which is not right but gets the idea across). We spoke some English then. In any other country after I tried that hard to speak French they would have easily and seamlessly switch to English for me and for the conversation to go more easily. It's seamless everywhere else and nobody has trouble with it. As he's doing the job... "Where are you from?" "Massachusetts" "Ah, Massachusetts. USA. When the French go to Massachusetts do they speak French or English?" [I realize now we need an asshole emoji.] In my best Boston accent: "When you go to Japan do you speak Japanese? When you go Thailand do you speak Thai?" It's a real slap in the face because my hidden messages is: French is not very important but English is. He deserved it. He was being rude. They're all rude. Another case: I went to a jewelry store and I looked up how to say "my daughter needs another earring" in French. I practice saying it with my daughter. My young daughter speaks native fluent French and English. When they spoke back to me in French I asked my daughter what they said and she explained it to me. They just burst out laughing because I couldn't speak French. Even worse all the other customers started laughing as well. About 8 people having a good long laugh. I couldn't imagine any people around the world being that rude. I have been around the world. I have never been treated the way every French person treats me. And these are not old people. People will tell me the young people speak good English and that's a little more true. But they all are provincial. I've never had a French person gracefully switch to English and be happy about it except for one time when I had my internet installed. He and his girlfriend studied English to go on a trip to Costa Rica a few months before. He was young. And if I've been here that long and I can only remember one, that says a lot. In the Parisians or even worse - more provincial. If you are not from Paris and you speak fluent French in Paris with an accent that's from Toulouse or Montreal, you will get ignored or treated badly. There is no English person to talk to at a bank, or Orange France, or any other service. Sometimes they have somebody who speaks a little English. I have to do everything with a chat bot and translate it. As an American who's had to sit through "press 1 for English" for 30 years and have had to put up with various levels of English in my country, gracefully for many years and even deal with people who don't speak English at all, gracefully, I find the French unbearably rude. And I am not alone.

If people: - were honest - not thin-skinned - and had courage to speak truth - cared for each other enough to speak it We'd all: - be better - speak more clearly - have better relationships - not be frustrated

It's elder abuse. Same as Macron in Versailles.

mlb.com/news/d-backs-nationa… No excuses. Get your job done and do it well.

9/9/6? Lightweights. 7/10/7 is my pace.