dmpop
dmpop
Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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I'm still a wreck, with no improvement in sight. But I schlepped myself to NUE anyway, because there was little point staying on the couch feeling sorry for myself. I hoped that a walk and fresh air would do me good, but I was wrong....
Yesterday, I uploaded 500th photo to Aircraft Photography.
I wish I could write something coherent, but we're still recovering from the awful flu that hit us last week. It will take a long while before we shake off the rest of the illness, that's for sure.
After a fairly unproductive weekend in NUE, both yours truly and his lovely wife are down with the flu. We're are really down for the count this time. I can see the future, and it tells me that I'll be calling my doc tomorrow. Not...
After a quick Sunday breakfast, I wanted to work a bit on ADS-B station. Unsurprisingly, I ended up spending the entire day with my ThinkPad.
Another day, another tiny feature added to ADS-B station. If there is a file named message.txt in the data directory, the text in the file is shown in the Message section of the Dashboard.
It didn't take me long to whip up a PHP script that generates a page with a random photo picked from the data/photos directory. But why? Because, I can now use my iPad mini 2 as a digital frame showing the photos stored in ADS-B station....
Last weekend has been a busy one — in a good way. February greeted us with cold but sunny weather, so I spent last Saturday and Sunday on roof of the P3 parking house, sipping coffee, savoring a home-made sandwich, photographing...
It's all started with me sorting through the books on a bookshelf. That's when I discovered an old iPad mini 2 lodged between the books and the backside of the shelf. It had been hiding there for quite a while, gathering dust. There is...
I didn't want to go out this weekend, so I spent most of it working on ADS-B station. To make the main page more usable, I've replaced cards with an accordion layout inspired by the How to build a CSS-only accordion article. And I added...
In itself, an Airbus A330-300 is not something particularly exciting. But it's a rare visitor in our neck of the woods, and I really needed to get out of the house, so it was as good a reason as any to swing by NUE.
I added three lines of code, and a popup for each airplane on map now displays its photo, if one is available in the data/photos directory.
When aeroTELEGRAPH shared details of a trip they were working on, it sounded like a too good of an opportunity to pass up. I mean, how one can say no to a three-day trip that included 1) a visit to Pilatus, 2) dining at the Runway 34...
A while ago, I cobbled together a lightweight alternative to tar1090 for use with ADS-B station. It was a pretty simple affair. The map.php script pulled data from the aircraft.json file generated by readsb and plotted them on a...
If you happen to own blink(1), you'll be pleased to learn that you can use it with ADS-B station. The blink1.sh shell script that comes with ADS-B station changes blink(1)'s color depending on the number of aircraft in range. Not only it...