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Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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Last weekend has been a busy one — in a good way. February greeted us with cold but sunny weather, so I spent last Saturday and Sunday on roof of the P3 parking house, sipping coffee, savoring a home-made sandwich, photographing...
It's all started with me sorting through the books on a bookshelf. That's when I discovered an old iPad mini 2 lodged between the books and the backside of the shelf. It had been hiding there for quite a while, gathering dust. There is...
I didn't want to go out this weekend, so I spent most of it working on ADS-B station. To make the main page more usable, I've replaced cards with an accordion layout inspired by the How to build a CSS-only accordion article. And I added...
In itself, an Airbus A330-300 is not something particularly exciting. But it's a rare visitor in our neck of the woods, and I really needed to get out of the house, so it was as good a reason as any to swing by NUE.
I added three lines of code, and a popup for each airplane on map now displays its photo, if one is available in the data/photos directory.
When aeroTELEGRAPH shared details of a trip they were working on, it sounded like a too good of an opportunity to pass up. I mean, how one can say no to a three-day trip that included 1) a visit to Pilatus, 2) dining at the Runway 34...
A while ago, I cobbled together a lightweight alternative to tar1090 for use with ADS-B station. It was a pretty simple affair. The map.php script pulled data from the aircraft.json file generated by readsb and plotted them on a...
If you happen to own blink(1), you'll be pleased to learn that you can use it with ADS-B station. The blink1.sh shell script that comes with ADS-B station changes blink(1)'s color depending on the number of aircraft in range. Not only it...
Recent ADS-B station updates were mostly minor ones: a fix here, a cosmetic tweak there — that kind of stuff. The latest update is a different story, though. I spent several evenings working on flights statistics functionality, because...
There is always something interesting to catch in NUE. Flightradar24 promised a Luftwaffe Airbus A400M, but the machine was a no-show. A Turkish Airlines Airbus A321-200 featuring colorful EuroLeague livery made up for it.
What promised to be a rather uneventful day in NUE, turned out to be anything but. But let's start from the very beginning. After being cooped up in the apartment for a good part of the week, I decided that a day in NUE would do me some...
The third day of 2025 dished out this winter's first (and maybe last) snow followed by sunny weather: a perfect opportunity to venture out. So I went to NUE. There wasn't much on the menu besides my good old friend D-BADA.
Summers in our neck of the wood are getting increasingly hot. And while the last one wasn't as a suffocating scorcher as it could have been, it was hot enough to make me concerned for the well-being of my ADS-B station. You see, the...
This is my 2024 report.
With just a few hours before 2025 arrives, it's safe to assume that this is going to be the last post of 2024. Considering the current state of the world, wishing you a happy year seems silly. Stay safe, take care of yourself and your...