I work with the people of Hub Realty, who have looked after apartment communities in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania since 1974 — and I build, by hand, the software the office runs on.
The day job is the buildings: who is arriving and who is leaving, what needs fixing, what the books say and whether they are right. The other job grew out of it. An office this size runs on a bookkeeping system, a working spreadsheet, a filing room and a lot of memory; the software exists to keep those four honest with each other and to hand the people here one thing at a time, with the facts already filled in.
How the software is built
A few rules hold it together. Truth outranks beauty: a figure that hasn’t been checked against its source is withheld, and the page says so. There is one reader, a landlord, so everything is in plain English. Every call that matters stays with a person; the system drafts, and a person decides. And nothing is called working on the strength of a screenshot — the device itself has to say so.
It runs on a small cluster of real machines behind the office. The code is written with an AI operator under those same rules — every change checked against the live system, nothing shipped on a claim — and a person says ship.
Where
Bridgeport, Connecticut. Hub Realty’s office is in Fairfield. How to reach the office →