dmpop
dmpop
Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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The forecast this Saturday looked encouraging, and Flighradar24 promised a rare visitor in our neck of the woods. So I took a bus to NUE after more than a month since my last visit there. The weather didn't disappoint: it was sunny and...
A few week ago, I scored a Fujitsu Futro S720 passively cooled mini PC (technically, it's a thin client) with an AMD GX-217GA processor, 4GB RAM and an 8GB mSATA SSD. All of that for paltry €14,03 — with free DHL shipping included.
Even though we live only a 5-hour train ride away from Hamburg, going there can be a costly affair. I did book a trip early this year, but I had to cancel it for reasons that I don't recall now. I pretty much gave up the idea of visiting...
I have a soft spot for Airbus A340, and especially the -600 variant. So the article Which Airlines Are Still Flying the A340-600? is right up my alley. I was also pleased to discover that the article uses my photo as a title image.
In the sea of mediocrity that is YouTube, there are plenty of "aviation" channels you can spend countless hours watching yet learning absolutely nothing of value about aviation. You can, of course, get exciting insights in what First...
After trialing SearXNG for a while, I decided to host my own SearXNG instance. In case you are not familiar with SearXNG, it's a metasearch engine that pulls search results from multiple sources, such as Google, Qwant, Brave Search,...
Although I don't care much for dark themes, I've added a simple dark theme to Tinble anyway. It was just a matter of adding the following to the styles.css file, after all:
No prizes for guessing where I spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning. Yeah, FRA again. What can I say? It's my favorite place, and it's not going to change any time soon. The forecast on Aktuelle Betriebsrichtung und...
When I need to update content of this very Tinble-based blog, I usually do that via SSH. It's a simple solution that works, but it does have drawbacks. Firstly, there is no backup: I edit original files, so if something goes wrong, my...
Even though the missus and I weren't feeling all that well, we decided to go on a weekend trip to Frankfurt. After all, if staying there helped my back, so there was no reason to think it wouldn't help to banish the rest of the flu....
Just a quick update to let you know that Tinble now uses the unified content directory for storing articles, pages, drafts, and images.
Although I have been sick like a dog for almost two weeks, I spent most of my couch time productively. Besides finishing off several books, I've also learned a few useful self-hosting and Docker skills. Here's what I know how to do now.
I've tweaked the Tinble logo, because I wanted something simpler and with punchier colors than the current one. Plus, I was bored, because I'm still trying to shake of the flu that has been dogging me for two weeks now. Also, because I...
I've added a tiny block of code to Tinble, and now you can pin articles, so they always appear at the top of the article list no matter the date they were published on.
The "feeling under the weather" thing just wouldn't go away, so my plan this Sunday was not to have any plan at all. I just wanted to stay on the couch and binge on Slow Houses. I was through the Episode 1 of Season 4, when I glanced on...