Writing
Engineering deep dives, parsing adventures, and things I learned the hard way.
Parsing X-Plane Airport Layout Geometry from apt.dat
A guide to parsing airport geometry from X-Plane's apt.dat format — bezier curves, control point mirroring, winding order for holes, split beziers for sharp corners, and the gotchas that break your parser.
Parsing Painted Lines and Taxiway Lights from apt.dat
How X-Plane encodes taxiway markings and embedded lights using linear features in apt.dat, and the type propagation gotchas that make lines disappear.
Building a Real-Time Supervisor Dashboard for AI Voice Agents
Building a real-time supervisor dashboard for AI voice calls. Live sentiment analysis, human intervention, and seamless handoffs - all without complex infrastructure. Just LiveKit rooms and some clever thinking.