Antonio Solano-Román

Grafana Faro OSS | Web SDK for real user monitoring (RUM) Grafana Faro is an open source tool for monitoring web application performance, discovering frontend errors, and performing real user monitoring (RUM).

Cool! I'd also suggest looking into Faro grafana.com/oss/faro/

Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting about Observability. Not from the operational aspect, but from the sociotechnical one. I’ll dive into design and the humanistic inquiry of shaping captured data about the state of a system.

Oh hi. I work here now (week 3). How fun!

A heatmap describing peak recorded crime times across days of the week and hours

Because I'm a nerd I looked at the Arlington crime data for their other 24/7 location within 500ft of their location, and lo and behold peak crime over the last 6 years is at 8pm on Sundays

I also love how the first letter complaints first about lack of “security measures” and then complaints that lighting for safety would be bothersome.

People need to get a grip. I live in North Old Town and got so excited when I saw the sign and the fact they’ll open late. It’s a restaurant not a bar or a disco.

Do you know if non Del Ray residents can send an email of support as well?

The biggest irony in this whole story is FDA staffers bringing their own water to FDA offices because they don’t wanna catch Legionnaires’ disease.

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As an immigrant on a green card (and a Costa Rican lol) I can say they’re not sending them to CR (I know you didn’t mean that literally).

Anyway, I have an automation on my phone that will share my latest know location if I get arrested.

Kinda effed up

Wife was a probationary employee let go over the weekend. She was a researcher with CMMI. If anyone has leads on jobs for a PhD social science researcher with an expertise in Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance, please let me know!

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

This is a great question! Daniel Bernoulli was already creating survival tables in 1760 but his original paper from that year only has tables, no charts. Hoping someone has the answer!

Screenshot of post: "I never thought robots would steal MY intellectual property, says inventor of Robot That Steals Intellectual Property" - @dinosaursheriff.bsky.social

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

Use the Human Microbiome Compendium data!

We made the data and code available, & created a website and R package to navigate the compendium. Links:

- Website: microbiomap.org

- Data: zenodo.org/records/1373...

- R package: blekhmanlab.github.io/MicroBioMap/

- Code: github.com/blekhmanlab/...

It dawned on me that all the designers of my new core team are Latinos/Spanish. One Colombian and one Mexican living in Dublin. One Spaniard in Boston, and myself (Costa Rican) living in Virginia. Our boss is Irish born, but honorary Latino at this point. They’re all superb designers.

How lovely 🥰

I fear there is deep truth here.

People think of WhatsApp as a messaging app, but entire economies run on it. In the global south many business don’t have websites, they have WhatsApp contacts and many transactions are possible thanks to it

So are we also leaving IG? I don’t use FB, and I can’t stop using WhatsApp because that’s how I communicate with my entire family and friends, but as a Latino, queer, immigrant using meta services feels just plain wrong.

Network of the day. From: Pitts, "Graph theoretical approach to historical geography" (1965)

Felicidades!

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

Another picture of the night sky showing a bit more of the top of trees

Here’s another one

A picture of the night sky in Costa Rica showing lots of brights stars and other celestial objects, and some trees near the bottom of the frame.

It’s crazy how good the quality of phone cameras is today. I took this on an iPhone 16 Pro in RAW 12 format using the default Photo app and only tweaked it a bit. I didn’t even use a tripod, I just laid flat and held the phone on my face 😂

My Micro 4/3rds Olympus cannot do this.

That device does not seem to function in Spanish. Plus, we don’t need recording capabilities.

Obviously this tech already exists over the web but we need something that also ideally works offline and in Spanish.

Dear #accessibility folk. A family member has hearing loss that cannot be aided with ear devices.

I’m looking for a handheld device that can live transcribe a conversation in SPANISH so that they can read what others are saying. So far the closest I’ve found is a recorder from iFLYTECH. Ideas?

100%. I had to pass on some of the coolest job opportunities out there like at the Fred Hutch because I had to think about my student loans and living in a very expensive city

Pobre mujer. Entiendo que son muy difíciles de hacer bien

This is fun! Where is it sourcing words from? It told me that Uzbek is not a word, but it’s a 20 point word! 😂

Map shows the location of wastewater sampling locations around the US. Most of the sites indicate low levels and are colored blue. However, there are a number of sites in CA with high levels and few other scattered sites around the US with medium/high levels and are colored in orange/red

1/ Influenza wastewater activity levels are currently low across the US, aside from conspicuous areas in CA where #H5N1 is spreading in dairy cows.

A deeper dive into the Wastewater Scan data paints a very concerning picture and should add to our sense of urgency.

It takes courage and integrity not to be co-opted into systems of injustice. As public health and science come under attack, I have profound respect—even reverence—for those who choose to RESIST and keep fighting for truth and what is right.
#ProtectPublicHealth #Resist