Posts
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How Airlines Safely Dispatch Aircraft With Failed Equipment (the MEL)
Airlines fly planes with broken parts every day — legally and safely. The MEL is aviation's feature flag system for hardware, and it has lessons for how we think about graceful degradation in software.
All About Containers - The Physical Edition
I have recently totally overhauled my storage system for *stuff*. From tools to tiny screws, this is the system I settled on.
Presence-Aware Lighting in Home Assistant Using a YAML Blueprint
A short tutorial explaining how to set up presence-aware room lighting in Home Assistant, including pre-off flashes and day/night scenes, using a reusable blueprint.
Happy Retirement, Dad!
On August 24th 2025, my father Neil Harding had his final flight at British Airways. I was his First Officer, and my brother Ben gave Dad his final landing clearance.
Querying a LogTen Pilot Logbook With SQL
LogTen is a pretty wrapper for a SQLite database. I will explain how to extract data from the SQLite database using SQL.
Build a Simple, Static, Markdown Blog with Flask
A short tutorial explaining how to set up a static Markdown blog in Flask in just a few lines of Python.