Software & business
Turning real operations — factory floors, painting crews, radar rooms — into software an industry actually runs on. Case studies and patterns from twenty years of shipping products under real constraints.
The posts
- July 30, 2026
The first job I ever automated was my own
In 2007 an E-4 space console operator got tired of five beeping timers and wrote a C# app that put every upcoming satellite pass on one live board. The brass liked it. It never got adopted. Joseph Dattilo on what that taught him.
- July 10, 2026
The management system an industry standardizes on
Rotomolding, painting contractors, and AI dev teams: how walking the floor first keeps producing the software a whole industry ends up running on — by Joseph Dattilo.