We hit a record recently: ran 17 million flight plan calculations in a single day. The #flightplanningsupercomputer scales.

Recent interest of mine: Why do large orgs tend to become inefficient and what can be done to fix it? Read this article this morning, has some great insight and pointers for further reading blog.nuclino.com/two-pizza-team…

One thing I wish I had picked up earlier was the importance of unit testing. A team member recently introduced me to mutation testing. Wonder if that's the next things I'll be regretting I didn't pick up on earlier stryker-mutator.io

You won't want to miss what we're unveiling at #NBAA19. Come see how ForeFlight is bringing it all together in one integrated app for planning and flying, and be among the first to demo something special! Learn more: bit.ly/2BdSJ8J

Loved our giant spinning signs at NBAA.

"The best feature of Performance Plus is one you barely see: ForeFlight’s database of detailed performance profiles." I agree, but I'm also biased. ipadpilotnews.com/2019/11/forefl…

My Black Friday purchase: A full DNA sequencing kit, gives you raw data (100 go file). Bioinformatics is an interesting and rapidly growing field.

The innovation the COVID19 crisis is fostering is amazing. MIT emergency ventilator, buildable for approx $100 e-vent.mit.edu

Easy: Find complicated solutions to complex problems Hard: Find simple solutions to complex problems Being able to do the latter is what makes a great software engineer

Modeling how an aircraft turns is going to go in my personal top 10 of problems that seems straight forward but turns out to be pretty hard

“We could make a setting” “Let’s just do both options”. Sentences overheard while walking past the technical debt graveyard

#1 scam in flight planning: Take someones filed routes, generate new routes, compute fuel on the old and new routes, claim X% cost saving. In reality, those filed routes included weather avoidance, getting cleared as filed, routing around delays. That is not optimization.

@DeltaAssist When booking a Delta flight through KLM (SEA -> AMS) is there no way to do an upgrade to a prefered seat? (i.e. aisle seat)

@DeltaAssist Hi, i bought a Comfort+ upgrade, but my seat dosen't show up in My Trips anymore. What to do?