James Harding: Airline Pilot and Software Engineerhttps://jameshard.ing/en-gbhttps://jameshard.ing/posts/aviation-radio/https://jameshard.ing/posts/aviation-radio/An A350 pilot's interactive guide to the radio tech — VOR, DME, NDB, ILS, TCAS — that still guide every flight and take over when GPS is jammed.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jameshard.ing/posts/married/https://jameshard.ing/posts/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.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jameshard.ing/notes/2026-04-01-astro-cloudflare-pages-trailing-slash-canonical/https://jameshard.ing/notes/2026-04-01-astro-cloudflare-pages-trailing-slash-canonical/A bit of a head-scratcher with Astro and Cloudflare Pages, but I think I've found a solution.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jameshard.ing/notes/2026-03-31-lava-lamps/https://jameshard.ing/notes/2026-03-31-lava-lamps/Lava lamps are still cool, and it was a great addition to my man cave.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jameshard.ing/posts/the-mel-minimum-equipment-list/https://jameshard.ing/posts/the-mel-minimum-equipment-list/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.Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jameshard.ing/posts/hardware-containers/https://jameshard.ing/posts/hardware-containers/I have recently totally overhauled my storage system for *stuff*. From tools to tiny screws, this is the system I settled on.Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jameshard.ing/notes/2026-02-02-apple-airpods/https://jameshard.ing/notes/2026-02-02-apple-airpods/Simple, reliable, and always in my pocket.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jameshard.ing/posts/presence-aware-lighting-home-assistant-yaml/https://jameshard.ing/posts/presence-aware-lighting-home-assistant-yaml/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.Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jameshard.ing/posts/happy-retirement-dad/https://jameshard.ing/posts/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.Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jameshard.ing/projects/pilot-logbook-statistics-and-visualisations/https://jameshard.ing/projects/pilot-logbook-statistics-and-visualisations/An explanation of the statistics and visualisations I have created from my pilot logbook data, including 3D globes and lots of interesting charts.Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jameshard.ing/posts/querying-logten-pilot-logbook-sql/https://jameshard.ing/posts/querying-logten-pilot-logbook-sql/LogTen is a pretty wrapper for a SQLite database. I will explain how to extract data from the SQLite database using SQL.Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://jameshard.ing/projects/split-flap/https://jameshard.ing/projects/split-flap/I managed to pick up a beautiful Split Flap display from a company who became bankrupt during COVID. I've been getting up and running again with some custom software!Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://jameshard.ing/posts/simple-static-markdown-blog-in-flask/https://jameshard.ing/posts/simple-static-markdown-blog-in-flask/A short tutorial explaining how to set up a static Markdown blog in Flask in just a few lines of Python.Sat, 16 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT