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Everything I have published here since 2017. Architecture, gliding, lab experiments, and the occasional side note. Filter by pillar or scroll through the lot.
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2017
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Kraken A5/1 on macOS ARM64 (port notes)
Frank Stevenson’s Kraken builds on Apple Silicon with three patches and a semaphore shim. CPU cracker only. Cross-checked against libosmocore.
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Setting up an SDR lab on macOS Apple Silicon: Part 1
A small passive SDR research lab on MacBook Pro M4 with LibreSDR B220 Mini. GSM BCCH decode from wideband capture, 35 2G and 34 4G cells inventoried across all Bucharest operators, full srsRAN LTE stack in loopback, native macOS ARM64. Notes on the four porting problems and the bitstream trap that looked like a UHD…
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Berchtesgaden, Obersalzberg
View toward Untersberg and Watzmann, from the southern slope of Obersalzberg.
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Sample density bias in Zigbee temperature averages
Consumer Zigbee sensors report on change, not on schedule. A naive mean() weights every sample equally regardless of how much real time it stands for. When a transient produces hundreds of clustered samples, the monthly mean drifts by two or three degrees. Fix at query time with hourly pre-aggregation.
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Why Grafana MCP clients fail behind the Home Assistant ingress proxy
Grafana as a Home Assistant add-on serves its API under a hassio_ingress prefix, not at /api/. Every third-party client I tested hardcodes the shorter path and fails silently with HTTP 200 and HTML. Diagnosis, prefix workaround, and two InfluxDB notes.
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Flying in Unterwossen
In-flight video of an ASK 21 glider at DASSU Unterwössen, in the Bavarian Alps.
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2023 in pictures
A photo essay of 2023: a selection of favourite pictures from the year, taken in the cockpit and on the ground.
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Gliding in Germany
A Google map of German gliding clubs and airfields, sourced from segelflug.de and remapped so cities and routes are visible for trip planning.
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25 points landing
Video from the 2020 precision-landing contest at LRCN Clinceni. A windy day and a 25-point result, useful practice for the next season.
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Cloud Strategy, podcast with Gregor Hohpe
Gregor Hohpe on Software Engineering Radio: a decision-driven approach to successful cloud migration, framing cloud strategy as a series of well-scoped architectural choices rather than a single big project.
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Glider winch launch
Video of a glider winch launch, taken from the winch.
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Digital transformation with Gregor Hohpe
Gregor Hohpe on digital transformation: what the term actually means, why most transformations stall, and how architects can push beyond IT modernization into genuine business change.