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If any of this looks like fun (it is so very much fun), dropping by your friendly local soaring club on a weekend is a good place to start! The Soaring Society of America has a clu…

Super affordable for an aviation thing. I'll often fly 4-5 hours from a $50 tow. My previous club charged about $500/yr with no hourly fees for glider use. I bought my own mid-perf…

Also, as pointed out below, Github's GraphQL types also include fields like `permalink` and `url` (and interfaces like `UniformResourceLocatable`) that probably save you from needi…

I wouldn't decode them like this, it's fragile, and global node IDs are supposed to be opaque in GraphQL. I see that GitHub exposes a `databaseId` field on many of their types (lik…

Ditto, except in my glider! I would appreciate a slightly smaller form factor, though - the cockpit in the Libelle is a bit... tight.

There are plenty of different definitions of the word "bubble" out there, but most of them relate in some way to asset prices coming untethered from fundamentals. For example, here…

Yep, I was wondering the same - it reminds me a lot of the SwiftUI visual editor in Xcode. Very nicely done.

I've been consulting full-time since my early 20s - it's been an adventure! You could talk to your current employer about switching to a part-time contract - it seems like in the l…

These two things are simultaneously true: 1. The experience of using a native app is substantially superior to web/electron. 2. Figma has done an amazing job of building features t…

Thanks! METARs [1] are standardized weather reports that pilots use to evaluate current conditions. They're often reported from stations located at airports, and include (among oth…

Good callout. I've got a feature coming to show age on the widget face, but for now you can tap the widget to view the full version, which includes the age and timestamp.

Not a pain at all - I did explore this, but I wasn't really happy with the result - which may have been because I was trying to cram it in with the existing information. Having an …

Thanks! Onwards to the instrument rating. That's a great idea RE: nearest reporting airport - I've put it on the list to explore for the next version. Haha, roger wilco on the tail…

Me too! The lack of ForeFlight widgets was the reason I started hacking on this, actually. Love the idea of showing wind direction relative to the phone - one challenge with this i…

Hi all! This was a side project I worked on over the last few months while learning to fly in South Dakota. I learned a lot about working with Widgets and SwiftUI, and I hope to do…

Lots of negativity here, but I think if your goal is to be able to sprinkle in bits of interactivity (or demos) among mostly static content, this is a great choice. Yes, it has mor…

I’ve been using the muji cases for years. My partner just got an Away case of equivalent size as a gift, and I can’t figure out why people would choose them over muji. In almost ev…

I've been traveling full-time for a year and living out of basically one big rolling-suitcase. Every time I'm back in the states, I convince myself to put the OP-1 in storage - it'…

One datapoint to the contrary - I had an excellent experience with their support. Shortly after I bought my original OP-1 (the $800 version), I managed to brick it during a firmwar…

IIRC, the instability is caused by the engine nacelles (the metal shroud around the turbofan), and therefore is present whether the engines are active or not.

I studied in Boston and then lived in SF for several years, and also needed a break. SF is incredibly beautiful - land's end, the presidio, twin peaks, the fog, hwy1 in either dire…