Up until now, I've been using my ADS-B station with a generic 1090 antenna. It did the job: my station routinely tracked around 40-50 aircraft on a normal day, with the current record of 67 machines on July 28. I did entertain the idea of building a DIY antenna, but I never managed to make any meaningful progress.

Geeqie (pronounced geeky) doesn't come up often in conversations about useful Linux photography tools, and that's a crying shame. Because despite its simple looks, Geeqie is a truly versatile and genuinely useful tool for managing RAW files and photos.

Good weather, a thermos with hot coffee, a home-made sandwich, and, of course, a camera is all I need to have an enjoyable time at NUE (or any airport for that matter). There weren't any exciting airplanes on the menu this Saturday, but that didn't stop me from going to the airport anyway, because 1) RWY 10 was...

Using something like YAD, you can add GUI elements (dialogs, input forms, drag-and-drop panels, etc.) to shell scripts on Linux. On macOS, you can do the same and more with Platypus. This venerable open-source tool makes it possible to transform plain shell scripts into macOS micro apps in a matter of minutes, and...

Global warming and the unfolding climate collapse is a tragedy, so I kind of feel bad enjoying the absolutely gorgeous and unusually warm and sunny for late November Monday. But not too bad? That's what I was contemplating while idling on the rooftop of the P3 parking building this fine Monday. And why exactly I was...

We didn't plan to travel this weekend. But then we discovered that our favorite hotel in Frankfurt had pretty sweet room rates. And we thought why not? We spent Saturday enjoying everything the city had to offer. And on Sunday morning, I headed to Zeppelinheim. This time around, I decided to do things differently.

My ADS-B station automatically takes a screenshot of the tar1090 interface whenever it detects an interesting airplane. Today's highlight is Boeing 747-4H6(LCF) Dreamlifter (reg. N718BA).

My humble Fujitsu Futro S720 running Debian makes a decent home server. But it has one weakness: the power button is too easy to press by accident, which shuts down the machine. I know that, because I've done it several times. Not the end of the world, but a mild nuisance I can live without. Turned out, it's an easy...

I woke up this morning only to discover that an Eastern Boeing 767-336(ER) (reg. N700KW) was about to land in NUE. It is a very rare guest in our neck of the woods, but there was no way I could make to the airport to capture it. :-(

Despite all the precautions taken during our trip to Helsinki, we managed to catch a cold. As a result, I spent last week indoors. So as the weekend approached, I was hoping that something interesting would show up in NUE, giving me a reason to get out. And when I checked Flightradar24 on Saturday evening, I was...

Here's a problem: I need to modify content of a specific EXIF tag in RAW files, and I want to use exiv2 for that. Oh, I need to do that on macOS. Since Exiv2 is available in Brew, installing it on macOS is a matter of running the brew install exiv2 command. I have no problems using the tool from the command line,...