Rahul Pathak

Fun day taking pictures of airplanes at #Seafair yesterday. This is @BlueAngels 4 going vertical while exiting a formation over Lake Washington. More shots in the thread below🧵… #avgeek #flying #aviation

A day late but here are some #Caturday shots of Jasper (Tuxedo) and Luke.

Short clip of aerobatics practice from September. Fingers crossed for good weather soon.

First ever color Kindle Scribe is here and think customers are going to really like it. We completely redesigned it from the ground up, and it’s now ultra-thin, writing and sketching feels like it’s happening on paper, and moving between pages is almost instantaneous. The AI we’ve baked in (featuring our Nova models) is especially useful, helping people find their notes, create note summaries, and ask questions of their notes. Think this is gonna change how folks work. aboutamazon.com/news/devices/n…

Good conversation with @SwedishPM Kristersson on Sweden’s digital future. From supporting a thriving startup ecosystem to expanding our cloud and AI capabilities, we’re committed to Sweden’s innovation journey. Proud that our investment here is supporting our customers, creating opportunities for Swedish businesses, and strengthening the country’s position as a leading tech nation. Look forward to continuing our collaborative work together.

Today, we’re bringing developers a faster and improved coding experience with the general availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q. This integration accelerates complex, multi-step tasks across the entire dev lifecycle and reduces context switching between tools. Customers who had early access to this new experience are enjoying the time they’re getting back to focus on innovation and modernizing their legacy systems. More here in our blog ➡️ aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/a… Here’s a quick look at how GitLab Duo is transforming dev workflows ⬇️

Happy with my landing at Boeing Field yesterday. Always things to improve but I’ll take it! Cirrus SR22T G6 with Garmin G1000 Perspective+ avionics. ILS Rwy 14R approach. The green reticle shows your flight path and the yellow chevron shows attitude.

@jasoncwarner I literally just watched Over the Top on my flight back from Europe a week ago. Epic movie - enjoy!

Mom can’t stop me so it’s an Over the Top and Iron Eagle family movie night double feature for the kids. It’s time they learned about the ‘80s

@ChrisWillx Agree with this. Systems will inevitably get better at inferring intent and learning your preferences.

Question. How long until prompt engineering is obsolete because AI is so good at interpreting what you mean that it's no longer required?

@msuster Such an awful situation. Glad you are ok.

I biked in this morning. My house survived. Got valuables & sentimental things out. My heart goes out to all my friends - so many friends - who lost everything. I can’t explain why I got lucky and and embarrassed to even say it. But for anybody worried about me - I’m fine 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Congratulations on your transformation and thanks for sharing the post and the dive into stents. I’m always amazed at how much there is to learn once you start peeling the onion, even for the simplest things, let alone something as high tech as a stent. Hope you have an amazing 2025 and beyond!

Yesterday was Just after I turned 41—17 years ago—a life of poor habits and family genetics caught up with me. I had a heart attack and ended up with a stent. Over the past 17 years, I've transformed my life: no red meat, no alcohol, and most importantly, no smoking. With medication and major lifestyle changes, I've worked to improve my health. Lost in my morning reverie today, I realized I had never thought about the actual technology that set me on the right trajectory - the stent. I couldn't help but think of coronary stents — one of medicine's most significant technological advances — as akin to the revolutionary impact of the iPhone on consumers. American Heart Association data shows that cardiovascular diseases accounted for 19.91 million deaths in 2021, making them the leading cause of death globally. Stents help save many millions of lives -- including mine. A stent is a small, tube-like device inserted into the body to keep a passageway open, usually within blood vessels. The term originated with Charles Thomas Stent, a 19th-century English dentist, though he never envisioned cardiovascular applications. The real game-changer came in the early 2000s with drug-eluting stents (DES), which coat metal scaffolds with medications to prevent re-narrowing. Think of everything before DES as the pre-smartphone era. Early stents were like rotary phones—functional but basic. The emergence of bare-metal stents in the 1980s would be like the Nokia 3310 at the dawn of the mobile era. The first drug-eluting stents were the "BlackBerrys" of the stent world. My Taxus stents keep me ticking. Since 2007, new versions of DES stents have emerged—sleeker, more reliable, and generally offering better patient experiences. Today's stents use advanced alloys, ultra-thin struts, and sophisticated drug-delivery systems. The future promises fully bioabsorbable platforms, smart monitoring capabilities, and personalized designs. Now, like the iPhone-facing AI-powered devices, stents are seeing competition from GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. These drugs help improve cardiovascular health through various mechanisms. For me, they're Batman and Robin—I don't care who is whom. GLP can help control certain aspects of my life, and stents have already proved to extend it. I can't live without the stents and am ever so grateful for the innovators and tinkerers who are helping improve them day by day. Looking back, what seemed like a dark period in my life has turned out to be the best thing that has ever happened to me. Life, as it turned out, has been much better than how I had planned it.

Insightful piece by @alexwilliams on @poolsideai and their impressive innovation. Excited to be partnering with @eisokant and @jasoncwarner and their team!

@marcrandolph Love this. Thx for sharing.

@PIC_Colleen Your photography is always great but this is a special shot. Thx for sharing!

@rahulpathak Thank you!!

The future is ever looming here at south cargo. I was leaving the warehouse yesterday morning and saw the sun rising behind this beautiful 757 and just then one of our fleet was departing to continue the logistical train that never stops. Though the Caravan is much smaller, her mission is the same: transport pilot and packages from point a to b safely and on time. Have a great weekend, friends. Safe and clear skies to you!

@preston_holland Preach, brother.

Happy with this landing that capped off a great flight from Boeing Field (KBFI) to Deer Park (KDEW- eastern Washington, near Spokane) yesterday.

@eisokant We got super lucky and it never gets old. It’s also right under the instrument approach for Renton Airport so I get my airplane fix too.

@rahulpathak That’s one hell of a view! 😍

Spectacular sunrise today. Happy Friday folks!