dmpop
dmpop
Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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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...
I host my open-source projects on Codeberg. But out of respect for this excellent service, I don't want to clutter it with one-off piles of code and stuff I don't take seriously. Also, I wanted to have my own "incubator" where I let my...
Whenever I'm traveling or photographing airplanes (or both), I use snapshots taken with my smartphone camera as a visual diary of my adventures. Normally, I'd dump them into my photo library and rarely revisit them, which is a shame...
I didn't quit my job per se — we moved to another country with higher living costs, and the company was unable (or unwilling, depending on how you look at it) to give me the required salary increase. It was a relief, really, because...
A lot happened this week aviation-wise. The most important news is that I've become a member of the Sindal Flight Club and its kind-of-official photographer. I spent every day this week — except Monday and Saturday — in the airport,...
Ironically, the home-brewed application I use most is also the most neglected one. I’m talking about Tinble, the tiny blog engine that powers this very blog. At long last, I got my act together and spent some time tweaking and improving...
Say what you want about agentic coding, but thanks to the Zed editor paired with the MiniMax M2.5 model, I was finally able to build an application I've been dreaming about for as long as I have been using digiKam. It's a companion to...
Today, I learned that my blog is on Bubbles. Normally, the fact that a random site &madsh; for reasons unknown — has picked up my blog wouldn’t excite me in the least. But a) Bubbles is actually pretty neat, and b) they do exercise...
A while ago, I contacted Sindal Flight Club to inquire about its activities and perhaps joining it. I was about to give up hope of hearing back from them when, out of the blue, I got a reply thanking me for my interest and inviting me to...
This time it's a rather simple sketch running on my new favorite board — the ESP32-2432S028. It reads and displays a random line from the vocabulary.txt file on the SD card. I use it to brush up on my vocabulary. Auto-refresh is set to...
I've been obsessing with weather from the very moment you returned to Denmark. And how could I not? The weather is so abysmal and unpredictable, it's hard not to be obsessed with it. Which probably explains why I've been spending most of...
Yesterday, I woke up in the morning and decided to build myself a Bongo Cat.
Last week, I biked to CNL twice, and both times I lucked out. First, I enjoyed watching and capturing a tiny Evector EV-97 EuroStar practicing touch-and-go, and during the second visit, I was lucky to catch a brand new Cirrus SR22.
Two things happened last Saturday: 1) I finally had idle time, 2) the weather was perfect for riding a bike. So at long last, I decided to check out Sindal Airport (CNL/EKSN). Actually, it's more like an airfield, but whatever.
Now that my TERMINAL-1090 station and 5G router sit in the attic, I don't have them in line of sight. Not a problem per se, but I wouldn't mind checking up on them every now and then, without taking an arduous trip from the living room...