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We Got Married!
On 5th May 2026, I married the love of my life, Bruna. A wonderful day shared with a small group of friends and family in London.
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, with lessons for software engineers on graceful degradation.
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 Room Lighting in Home Assistant
How to set up presence-aware room lighting in Home Assistant with pre-off flashes and day/night scenes, packaged as a reusable YAML 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.