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dmpop
Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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There is no need to expose your ADS-B receiver and feeder to the Internet, unless you need to access ADS-B data from outside your local network. But how would you actually pull ADS-B data from outside your network without exposing your...
The best part about learning a new skill is that the bar to success is very low. I know nothing about home improvement, so when I managed to release air from the radiators and insulated a few places (both are pretty trivial tasks), I...
When we took over our new house, we noticed that it already had a resident: a sparrow living at the rooftop. It greeted us with its cheerful chirp, and we promptly named it A318.
On Monday, November 3, we took possession of our new house. Of course, I managed to catch a cold on our way to Denmark, but that didn't make me appreciate the moment any less.
I saw a kindred spirit in Hamburg.
What started as an idle idea I was entertaining while riding my bike from NUE after a day of airplane photography turned into an amusing application that pleases me to no end. I'm talking about RetroPPI. Similar to tar1090, it visualizes...
The weather is gradually getting less conducive to airplane photography, so I'm spending more and more time working on Sky scraper.
A week or so ago, I did a clean install of Debian 13 on my Sky scraper station, and I had to re-install all ADS-B feeders too — including fr24feed. Since Flightradar24 provides an installer script that automates the entire process, it...
When a German Government Airbus A350-941 is scheduled to appear in NUE, no self-respecting airplane photographer would miss the chance to capture it. This explains why I got up at 7:00, and after a quick shower and breakfast, I jumped on...
Last Sunday, we took part in what may very well be our last Kärwa in Fürth. It was fun as always, and I took hundreds of snapshot — including a terrible, blurry one of Brütsch Mopetta.
Even though the weather is still pretty mild for the time of the year, it's not as much fun to bike to NUE and spend time there, waiting for airplanes. It's not cold, but no matter how much clothes you wear, when you stand still for a...
Last Friday was a public holiday, so we decided to spend the day at NUE. The highlight of the day promised to be a Luftwaffe Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules (reg. 55+01).
A while ago, I scored a couple of super cheap Fujitsu Futro S-series thin clients that I now use to self-host my own homemade applications. To keep an eye on them, I wanted to use a lightweight monitoring tool, and after some lazy...
It feels slightly unreal to say that, but we've bought a house in Denmark. It has been a somewhat protracted and nerve-wracking process, so when on October 2nd the last piece of the puzzle fell into place, it came as a huge relief.
# September update