James Harding
@jameshard.ing
Software Engineer → Airline Pilot
☀️ by day: Airbus A350 First Officer 👨✈️
🌙 by night: Python/TS/React 👨💻 (when not flying overnight, of course!)
https://jameshard.ing
☀️ by day: Airbus A350 First Officer 👨✈️
🌙 by night: Python/TS/React 👨💻 (when not flying overnight, of course!)
https://jameshard.ing
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James Harding
@jameshard.ing
· Jun 27
Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
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!
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4439...
jameshard.ing/pilot#statis...
Turns out there are lots of software people who are also into aviation!
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
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.
jameshard.ing
July 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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
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
July 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Reposted by James Harding
![3-panel comic. (1) PERSON WITH SHORT HAIR to Person 2: Shining laser pointers at planes is a federal crime. It’s incredibly dangerous. PERSON 2: Oh, because it can blind the pilot? SHORT HAIR: That’s one reason… (2) [Laser pointed at flying airplane] (3) [Cat close to the size of the plane pouncing on airplane and taking it down]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicdr4m3a7s2i232wlvcu7dkwytnrh3tlqfbojtmyg3pzr7a6ibxra@jpeg)
July 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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?
I’ve been thinking about making a webpage where anyone on the web can upload messages to the board in my living room. Dangerous?
June 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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?
I’ve been thinking about making a webpage where anyone on the web can upload messages to the board in my living room. Dangerous?
Reposted by James Harding
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.
jameshard.ing
June 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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
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.
June 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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.
June 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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!
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4439...
jameshard.ing/pilot#statis...
Turns out there are lots of software people who are also into aviation!
Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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!
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4439...
jameshard.ing/pilot#statis...
Turns out there are lots of software people who are also into aviation!