Just finished a new post about all the different ways we use radio while flying. VOR, ILS, DME, etc. Lots of interactive illustrations to play with too! jameshard.ing/posts/aviati...

Hello to the new followers who have somehow discovered my flying stats website :) not sure where the burst of traffic has come from!

Lots of new stats added to my website: 🕰️ +23.8µs of time dilation due to cruising speed/altitude ☢️ 23.032 mSv of radiation (19% of a chernobyl liquidator) 🌲 65,000+ tonnes of CO₂ emitted jameshard.ing/pilot#statis... I also have a new interactive logbook exporer: jameshard.ing/pilot/logbook/

Pilot - James Harding

James Harding is a British Airways Airbus A350 pilot. Explore his career, flight statistics, and unique 3D globe visualisations of his flying history.

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I’ve been going deep on hardware storage systems! For anyone who wants to put their (small hardware component) problems in a 📦, here is what I’ve found: jameshard.ing/posts/hardwa...

All About Containers - The Physical Edition - James Harding

I have recently totally overhauled my storage system for *stuff*. From tools to tiny screws, this is the system I settled on.

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I know that almost everyone north of 50N got to see them yesterday, but here was the view from 65N flying Vancouver to London a few days ago! #aurora #northernights

Just launched something I've been tinkering with - a visual timeline of my life in weeks 📅 Each colored dot represents a notable moment. The scary part: weeks pass by at an alarming rate, but they're long enough that they all fit on one page. Check it out: jameshard.ing/weeks

My Life in Weeks - James Harding

A grid showing every week of my life (so far), and any significant events from that week.

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England status: hot 🔥 At least @home-assistant.io makes the climate data look nice

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Since the number is still non-zero, I quickly threw together a new screen for my split flap display, pulling data from my privacy-friendly Umami self-hosted server. I’ve been thinking about making a webpage where anyone on the web can upload messages to the board in my living room. Dangerous?

James Harding flies A350s out of London, and he's got a computer engineering degree, so he's got gorgeous globe visualizations of his flights plus lots of others. jameshard.ing/pilot/globes may be of interest to @erwin-hattingh.bsky.social

3D Globes - James Harding

A list of all of the 3D globe visualisations available.

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This is madness. I have historically had an average of around 5-10 visitors to my website a day, mostly looking at an old Flask tutorial that I wrote orignally almost a decade ago. Hacker News traffic alone has brought around 140K pageviews in two days.

Cloudflare has really saved my poor little VPS in the last 24 hours! My flight data API (a tiny Flask service) is the only part not heavily cached, and it has survived despite the hammering.

Wow! I posted my interactive pilot logbook webpage to Hacker News on a whim, and it has somehow reached the top spot. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4439... jameshard.ing/pilot#statis... Turns out there are lots of software people who are also into aviation!