check METAR and TAF instead of weather forecast

Promising not to do something ever again is a tall order, but at least I'm going to give it a try. So here's what I'll avoid buying in the future:

This is my 2025 report.

Guten Rutsch, NUE! Thank you for all good moments, nice surprises, iced coffee, and delicious Brezen!

Enabling an external USB Wi-Fi dongle on a Linux machine is a skill that is hardly in high demand these days -- until you have a Wi-Fi-deficient machine, and you want to add it to your wireless network. That was the exact problem I faced when I discovered an old Edimax EW-7811Un Wi-Fi dongle in a storage box, and I...

I don't know if bit rot can be a real problem, but I have zero desire to find out when it's too late. So I've tweaked and extended the Bash shell scripts I use to back up data to my data fridge. Now, instead of a single script, I have three.

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. And, boy, I was in for a nice surprise! A Boeing 777-200 operated by Eastern Airlines was scheduled to arrive at NUE at midday. It was only the second...

Even with everything that's going on in our lives right now, I quietly managed to work on Sky scraper. Firstly, I renamed it to TERMINAL-1090. Why? Because while I liked the Sky scraper name, it felt a bit too generic. The new name is more closely related to aviation, and is in line with the main technologies it...

This time, it was 54+04. Surprisingly, the machine arrived on time, but it didn't land. Instead, it flew over the RWY 10 and disappeared into the foggy skies. That gave me an opportunity to capture the airplane from eye level, which doesn't happen often.

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. I've tried several approaches, but most of them were too kludgy to be practical. Last night, I realized that I actually already have a tool for that — the Element app. I created...

It's Hack Week at SUSE, and it's my last one. This time around, I decide to spend part of the week on fixing and cleaning a Technics Hi-Fi stack I bought for a pittance, without electrocuting myself. The SA-EX100 AV control stereo receiver was in pretty good shape, so I only had to give it a proper clean and nothing...