A apărut azi un documentar despre Untold, realizat de fifteen films: Untold, costul nevăzut. Are aproape o oră și adună la un loc vocile oamenilor care locuiesc în Cluj și care, an de an, plătesc un cost pe care nimeni nu îl trece în vreun bilanț. Apar și …
Passengers don't want your airport app
July 24, 2026Every few months I sit in a meeting where an airport asks us how to get more passengers to download their app. My honest answer is usually the one they least expect: don’t. The app is the wrong tool, and the numbers have been saying so for years.
The …
Scaling Down Is the Hard Part
July 13, 2026Everyone assumes the engineering challenge is the mega-hub. After a decade of building airport systems, I have come to believe the opposite: the real test of an architecture is whether it can run a two-million-passenger airport profitably, for both sides.
Data Integration Is a Home Renovation. Most Airports Are Living in the Gut Job.
July 10, 2026I’ve spent eleven years watching people renovate the same house.
The house is an airport. Underneath the nice terminal you walk through there are dozens of systems, installed by different people, in different decades, to different standards. None of …
I still read every support ticket
July 7, 2026I still read every support ticket. On the rare occasion we have a major incident, I join the call too.
One thing I should say up front: I do not run support, and neither should you. We have people who do that job far better than I would. My aim is not to …
Bani publici, cod public: am analizat inițiativa legislativă privind codul sursă deschis în sectorul public.
July 1, 2026Am văzut pe social media un post al lui Ciprian Rus despre o inițiativă legislativă prin care codul sursă plătit din bani publici ar deveni public. Ideea „bani publici, cod public" mă interesează de mult, așa că mi-am permis să citesc și să analizez …
Two things airports get wrong about replacing an AODB.
June 30, 2026First, they assume the careful method is the slow one. It is the fast one. O’Hare went from selection to go-live in about four months, at the busiest airport on earth, with no operational disruption, precisely because nobody bet the operation on a …
LOFIC sensors and the promise of huge dynamic range
June 29, 2026I have been geeking out lately over LOFIC sensor technology, and the main reason is dynamic range. This is one of those quiet leaps that could change how everyday photos and videos look, and I am genuinely excited about it.
What dynamic range is, and why …
My mom asked me if AI is going to affect us.
June 29, 2026My mom asked me if AI is going to affect us. She’d heard about so many people getting fired.
I told her: it’s like accountants and Excel. Excel never replaced accountants. But the ones who used it ran circles around the ones who didn’t. …
We are working through the design of a new performance-linked bonus at AirportLabs.
June 25, 2026We are working through the design of a new performance-linked bonus at AirportLabs.
I walked into that conversation expecting the usual questions. How do we hit the targets. How big are the numbers.
That is not what happened. The team spent the time on a …