Photogrammetry on commercial flights (2021)(leifgehrmann.com)

211 points by tildef 3 years ago | 36 comments

Airfoil(ciechanow.ski)

4 points by gronky_ 2 years ago | 0 comments

Airfoil(ciechanow.ski)

2422 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 280 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how airplanes fly by examining the forces generated by airflow around wings and airfoils.

Airfoil (2024)(ciechanow.ski)

508 points by brk 9 months ago | 59 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how airfoils generate lift by examining the forces created by airflow around aircraft wings.

PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights(robertheaton.com)

790 points by oumua_don17 2 years ago | 377 comments

Robert Heaton's blog post describing PySkyWiFi, a hack that tunnels internet traffic through an airline airmiles profile field to get free in-flight wi-fi.

Goodbye, San Francisco(yolken.net)

33 points by bhyolken 3 years ago | 26 comments

Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways(saxrag.com)

577 points by vinhnx 1 year ago | 137 comments

Blog post describing how the author bypassed British Airways' messaging-only free in-flight WiFi restrictions to get broader internet access.

Delta WiFi Survival Guide(dialta.adorellc.pro)

9 points by husky8 23 days ago | 8 comments

A guide page about using or getting by with WiFi on Delta Air Lines flights; no page content was captured.

Dead Internet Theory(kudmitry.com)

597 points by skwee357 9 months ago | 638 comments

A personal blog post by Dmitry Kudryavtsev reflecting on the Dead Internet Theory, starting from his experience browsing Hacker News.

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable(adriano.fyi)

537 points by acaloiar 3 years ago | 269 comments

Blog post by Adriano Caloiaro describing how AT&T Wireless traffic shaping appears to make some websites unusable, observed while living in an RV.

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come(blog.muni.town)

341 points by erlend_sh 1 year ago | 234 comments

A 2007 Coding Horror post by Jeff Atwood explaining why he avoids private social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn and prefers the public web.