Current events for June 2026.
I have not written much for the business lately because the work itself has been keeping me busy. The main project on the bench right now is an operations dashboard for an aviation customer.
It started as a simple flight status page: pull the current Takeflite schedule, clean it up, and give people an easier way to see what is going on. That first version did its job, but it also revealed the bigger opportunity. Once the schedule is synchronized and trustworthy, it becomes the backbone for all kinds of daily workflow: customer visibility, internal notes, flight releases, airport risk, weight and balance, duty tracking, boxweight planning, and operations analytics.
The flight board is now less of a "status page" and more of an operations console. Dispatch can see the day, select a flight, check aircraft and timing details, open the related flight release, and manage customer-visible notes from one place. Once a flight is complete, the tracker profile can also be used as a quick review surface for altitude, speed, descent profile, and stabilized-approach criteria.
The map workspace has become another major piece. It brings terrain, route briefing, METAR categories, aircraft tracker positions, and qualification-region context into the same view so the operational picture is not split across half a dozen tabs.
The weight and balance side has grown into its own same-day CG planner. It syncs scheduled flights, opens a flight into a working loading sheet, draws the CG envelope, flags no-go conditions, and keeps the plan usable even when the app is working from cached data.
The flight release workflow has also moved from paper thinking into a live app workflow. The coordinator and pilot sides can work through a structured release, attach airport risk assessment items, track the draft state, and keep the operational decision tied to the actual flight.
Airport Risk Assessment turned into a full workbench of its own. The customer can maintain airport records, risk items, notes, gripes, qualification requirements, and map context in one library instead of scattering that knowledge across forms, spreadsheets, and memory.
The analytics work has been one of the more interesting expansions. Once the Takeflite data is being pulled reliably, the system can start answering operational questions: on-time performance, flight hours by day, cargo movement, freight versus mail, route behavior, activity versus disruption, and which parts of the operation are generating the most friction.
There is still plenty to do. The tool keeps expanding because real users keep finding the next useful thing once the previous one saves them time. That is a good problem to have. Pragman Labs has been doing the part I like best: turning the messy middle of an operation into software that people can actually use during a workday.