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Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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Even though I use my Bambu Lab A1 mini printer regularly, and I occasionally design my own parts, I still haven't progressed beyond Tinkercad. And why would I? It's simple, and it gets the job done, so I see no reason to complicate my...
Free and open-source system monitor that sits in the macOS menu bar. It looks good and offers plenty of customization options.
Here's a one-liner to generate PNG favicons in multiple sizes from the icon.svg file using Inkscape on macOS:
Last Friday, I woke up to the news that Codeberg is officially banning vibe-coded projects. And just like that, many of my personal tools have become homeless. So I took down my self-hosted instance of Forgejo because it was overkill for...
I've had enough of using my Android smartphone for casual snapshotting, I said to myself one day. I climbed to the attic and, after rummaging through boxes of stuff, unearthed an Olympus PEN Lite E-PL7 camera. I won it a lifetime ago...
As any self-hoster would tell you, having a way to access servers running on your home network from the outside world is a must. This explains why services like Tailscale, Zerotier, et al. enjoy popularity with the self-hosting...
Wednesday in EKSN wasn't looking promising airplane-wise, but I decided to bike there anyway, because a) the weather was wonderful, and b) I wanted to test our new backup bicycle that we bought second-hand. But no sooner had I reached...
Let me explain. First, greed-driven, shareholder value-focused businesses turn the web into a cesspool. Then we're offered an option to pay for a cleansed version of it. I don't have an issue with someone asking to be paid for their...
The moment I bought my Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D printer, I went looking for photography-related designs I could print. I spent a lot of filament on things that looked promising in theory but quickly ended up in a drawer. However, several...
... the ability to back up the contents of the card to an external storage device. I want to be able to plug an SSD directly into my camera's USB-C port and let the camera automatically back up all JPEGs and RAWs. That's it. It's neither...
When we moved to our new place not far from CNL, I hoped that I'd have occasional opportunities to photograph smaller private airplanes. What I didn't expect at all was to encounter military airlifters at our humble airport. Which...
Every last Sunday of the month, our flight club (now that I'm a paying member, I take particular pride in saying "our") arranges an open house event. My first one back in April as a guest was a slightly muted affair due to the...
The weather has been suspiciously good (albeit windy) lately, so I spent the last couple of days in CNL. Wednesday was pretty uneventful, and I spent most of it chatting with a fellow flight club member and digging through vintage...
Last Friday, for whatever reason (most likely because we never learn), we decided to watch Gladiator II. Familiar with the masterpieces Ridley Scott has been foisting on us for the last two decades, our expectations were low.
Last time I had a chance to photograph airliners was way back in February in AMS. And although I've been thoroughly enjoying capturing small airplanes in CNL, I did miss proper airports and big machines. So when an opportunity to spend...