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I woke up on Monday, and while still not completely awake, reached for my smartphone to check Flightradar24 to see if there is anything interesting happening at NUE.

Even with everything that's going on in our lives right now, I quietly managed to work on Sky scraper.

This time, it was 54+04.

Moving from Firefox to Orion has been a success in all respects, except one: I've lost the ability to send tabs from one device to another.

It's Hack Week at SUSE, and it's my last one.

It has been a while since I visited the rooftop of the P2 parking garage, waiting for hours for a military airplane to capture.

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With our upcoming move, we have less time and less money with every passing day, so we promised ourselves that we would take advantage of as many opportunities to visit our favorite places as possible.

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.

The best part about learning a new skill is that the bar to success is very low.

When we took over our new house, we noticed that it already had a resident: a sparrow living at the rooftop.

On Monday, November 3, we took possession of our new house.

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.

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.

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.

Last Sunday, we took part in what may very well be our last Kärwa in Fürth.

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.

Last Friday was a public holiday, so we decided to spend the day at NUE.

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.

It feels slightly unreal to say that, but we've bought a house in Denmark.

# 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.

Just a quick recap of what we've been up to lately.

Another Sky scraper update, and it’s a substantial one.

A weekend with good weather means bike rides to NUE and days spent capturing airplanes.

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 .

Oh, no!

There haven't many Sky scraper-related updates for a while, mainly because it's summer, and I prefer to spend most of my spare time chasing airplanes.

I went for an overnight trip to FRA.

Last weekend, planted firmly on my regular spot in NUE, waiting for something to capture, I was wondering about a sudden, and seemingly inexplicable, increase in number of blurry frames.

Last night, when I learned that Ozzy had passed away, I listened to Black Sabbath.

I've recently started using Kleinanzeigen, and I was pleased to discover that there are plenty of enticing stuff at prices that are often lower than those on eBay.

With a heatwave making an appearance in our part of the world last week, we decided to escape to Frankfurt am Main and work from a pleasantly cool room in the Staycity aparthotel — with a bonus of capturing airplanes in my spare time.

Here's the latest addition to my modest library of aviation books: Airbus - von der A300 bis zur A380 und A350 By Norbert Andrup.

My plan to spend the entire Monday in NUE capturing airplanes was in motion way earlier and in a more hectic fashion than I expected.

There is a pond not far from my favorite spot in NUE.

Before you proceed, read the following warning carefully:

This summer, we decided to do a week-long vacation in Frankfurt am Main.

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.

I'm done with cloud storage, NAS appliances, RAID arrays, and whatnot.

Once again, thanks to strategically placed days off, I managed to have a 5-day weekend.

I readily admit that I'm nothing but a (clueless) weekend coder.

Displaying METAR data in a human-readable format has long been at the top of my "Features I want in Sky scraper" list.

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.

When I started working on the ADS-B station project, I only used its name as a working title.