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Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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ADS-B station prominently shows the number of aircraft in its range. To spruce up this tiny feature, I've tweaked it so that the background color of the counter badge changes depending on the current number.
Up until now, I've been using my ADS-B station with a generic 1090 antenna. It did the job: my station routinely tracked around 40-50 aircraft on a normal day, with the current record of 67 machines on July 28. I did entertain the idea...
Geeqie (pronounced geeky) doesn't come up often in conversations about useful Linux photography tools, and that's a crying shame. Because despite its simple looks, Geeqie is a truly versatile and genuinely useful tool for managing RAW...
Good weather, a thermos with hot coffee, a home-made sandwich, and, of course, a camera is all I need to have an enjoyable time at NUE (or any airport for that matter). There weren't any exciting airplanes on the menu this Saturday, but...
Using something like YAD, you can add GUI elements (dialogs, input forms, drag-and-drop panels, etc.) to shell scripts on Linux. On macOS, you can do the same and more with Platypus. This venerable open-source tool makes it possible to...
Global warming and the unfolding climate collapse is a tragedy, so I kind of feel bad enjoying the absolutely gorgeous and unusually warm and sunny for late November Monday. But not too bad? That's what I was contemplating while idling...
We didn't plan to travel this weekend. But then we discovered that our favorite hotel in Frankfurt had pretty sweet room rates. And we thought why not? We spent Saturday enjoying everything the city had to offer. And on Sunday morning, I...
My ADS-B station automatically takes a screenshot of the tar1090 interface whenever it detects an interesting airplane. Today's highlight is Boeing 747-4H6(LCF) Dreamlifter (reg. N718BA).
My humble Fujitsu Futro S720 running Debian makes a decent home server. But it has one weakness: the power button is too easy to press by accident, which shuts down the machine. I know that, because I've done it several times. Not the...
I woke up this morning only to discover that an Eastern Boeing 767-336(ER) (reg. N700KW) was about to land in NUE. It is a very rare guest in our neck of the woods, but there was no way I could make to the airport to capture it. :-(
Despite all the precautions taken during our trip to Helsinki, we managed to catch a cold. As a result, I spent last week indoors. So as the weekend approached, I was hoping that something interesting would show up in NUE, giving me a...
Here's a problem: I need to modify content of a specific EXIF tag in RAW files, and I want to use exiv2 for that. Oh, I need to do that on macOS. Since Exiv2 is available in Brew, installing it on macOS is a matter of running the brew...
Recently, I rediscovered Unison. I was also pleased to learn that the tool is available on macOS as a native app. It works well, except one minor limitation: you can create profiles, but you cannot delete or edit them in the app. As I'm...
No so long ago, I added notes to Tinble. Already then, I knew I wanted something a little bit more sophisticated. Lo and behold, I stumbled on a Admonitions in CSS article describing pretty much exactly what I had in mind. Better still,...