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 fairly warm. The rare visitor Boeing 737-800 from Mavi Gök Airlines arrived...

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 Hamburg in 2024, but I was in luck. It turned out that I had more vacation days...

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 Class meals look like and taste, have a fair share of loo reviews, or watch a...

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, DuckDuckGo, etc. It does that while scrubbing off tracking, profiling, and other...

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 Betriebsrichtungsprognose promised several days of uninterrupted 07 East runway operation,...

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 work might be gone for good. Secondly, working via an SSH connection can be very...

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. Spoiler alert: it kind of worked. Although we were dead tired, we were feeling...

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.