dmpop
dmpop
Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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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
Pellicola has served me well — both as a way to learn PHP by building a real-world application and as a platform for publishing my photos. But with a heavy heart, I've come to the realization that this humble bundle of mediocre code is...
Just a quick recap of what we've been up to lately. We spent the last week of summer in Zurich. Right after breakfast on Sunday, I headed to the airport, and later that day I joined an Airsidefoto tour.
Another Sky scraper update, and it’s a substantial one. Sky scraper is designed to work with data flowing from readsb, which requires an ADS-B receiver and an antenna. But if you don’t have either of these, and you still want to monitor...
A weekend with good weather means bike rides to NUE and days spent capturing airplanes. My catch last weekend wasn’t all that impressive. The only interesting addition to my library was a Learjet 75 operated by Polish Air Ambulance (reg....
Last Monday, I finally managed to capture a Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules exactly the way I wanted it.
Saturday before last, we went on a road trip with our friends to the Technik Museum Speyer . Of course, I was looking to see their airplane collection that included an An-22 and a variety of other vintage airplanes.
Oh, no! ANA Retires Star Wars R2-D2 Boeing 787 livery 😢 I'm so grateful that I had a chance to see and capture it.