dmpop
dmpop
Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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There is a pond not far from my favorite spot in NUE. The pond is part of a nature reserve around the airport, and it has been taken over by frogs. I can't tell you how much I enjoy listening to them croaking all day long. It's a...
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This summer, we decided to do a week-long vacation in Frankfurt am Main. It is after all our favorite city in Germany for obvious and not so obvious reasons. We booked a room at Staycity close to the airport, and my vacation plan was...
The missus had to work this weekend, and there was nothing exciting going on in NUE, so I decided to go for an overnight trip to MUC. Besides capturing airplanes, my plan was to field test my "meal kit" consisting of a Trek'n Eat main...
I'm done with cloud storage, NAS appliances, RAID arrays, and whatnot. I want a solution that's simple, inexpensive, local-only, and easy to maintain. Allow me to introduce you to my new data storage setup that I jokingly refer to as...
Once again, thanks to strategically placed days off, I managed to have a 5-day weekend. Here's a brief list of my accomplishments:
I readily admit that I'm nothing but a (clueless) weekend coder. While this doesn't prevent me from enjoying cobbling together home-grown tools, my limited skills can also be a source of frustration. Often, a task that would take a...
Displaying METAR data in a human-readable format has long been at the top of my "Features I want in Sky scraper" list. But my previous attempts to implement this feature failed miserably, because parsing raw METAR data in PHP wasn't...
Last Sunday, NUE celebrated its 70th anniversary with a huge party featuring a handful of aircraft and specialized vehicles on display, booths, and of course food. Despite the drizzling rain, the place was packed. Though we spent most of...
When I started working on the ADS-B station project, I only used its name as a working title. I kept it for so long simply because I couldn't come up with a better name.
When I woke up and checked Flightradar24 this morning, I almost jumped out of bed; an Airbus A330-200 operated by the French Air Force was scheduled to depart in the afternoon. I promptly requested a half-day off, and raced to NUE on my...
The map feature in ADS-B station is nowhere near as good as tar1090. But that doesn't stop me from trying to make it more useful: partly because I enjoy finding my own simple solutions and learning new techniques in the process, and...
Last Saturday was a wonderful day in NUE in every respect. I had to get up earlier than usual, because I wanted to catch a Boeing 737-800 operated by SunExpress (reg. TC-SPY) featuring the Schlumpfe livery. The weather was absolutely...
My ADS-B station instance uses rclone to back up its data to MEGA. It works well, but I thought it would be even better if it created a separate backup copy for each day of the week. This suggestion was exactly what I had in mind. I...