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An afternoon in a radar room
Notes from an afternoon inside a busy approach control: the noise, the scopes, the paper, and how the controllers handled a go-around.
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Why Mexico City is hard to simulate
Mexico City is not New York with the colors changed. A simulator built around a sea-level field broke a piece at a time when I pointed it at 7,316 feet.
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Two kinds of north
A bug that passes every test and ships anyway, because the code is right and only the meaning is wrong. Why domain software needs a domain expert as its real check, not a test suite.
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What ATC sims get wrong about the job
Most ATC sims let you configure each aircraft from a panel. Real controllers give spoken commands. A few of the domain truths the genre keeps missing.
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Mi revisor de código es un controlador de tránsito aéreo retirado
Quien decide si una función se publica no es una métrica ni una prueba de QA. Es un hombre que trabajó la aproximación de la Ciudad de México durante 41 años.
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My code reviewer is a retired air traffic controller
The person who decides whether a feature ships isn't a metric or a QA pass. It's a man who worked Mexico City approach for 41 years.
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Por qué empecé con el espacio aéreo mexicano
Por qué SECTOR empezó con el espacio aéreo de la Ciudad de México y no con el de Nueva York, y por qué esa no fue una decisión técnica.
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Why I started with Mexican airspace
Why SECTOR started with Mexico City's airspace instead of New York's, and why that wasn't a technical decision.