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James Harding
Personal blog · jameshard.ing/posts · on HN as jameshardinghardwareprogramming
James Harding's personal blog at jameshard.ing covers hardware and programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link James Harding's posts on querying his LogTen Pro pilot logbook with SQL and on his split-flap display project, which sit alongside his flight-data graphs and globes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
James Harding: British Airways A350 First Officer and computer engineer. Aviation, software projects, and 3D printing adventures.
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/querying-logten-pilot-logbook-sql2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-27
What Hacker News says?
The data is all in a sqlite file from my logbook software! I wrote a little post about extracting the data here: https://jameshard.ing/posts/querying-logten-pilot-logbook-sq... I have only seen a few clips from The Rehersal (the bit with Sully listening to Evanescence), so I don't have much to go on. Pilot communication is definitely something that we spend a lot of time talking about and training (under the larger…
Comment linking /posts/querying-logten-pilot-logbook-sql
on “Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights”Submitted Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights as a story · 1539 points
HN discussion> How is the raw or display data stored? He answered in the post that he uses LogTen Pro[1] which enables querying with SQL[2]. In the SQL post he says the app has an export for CSV but the app stores it in SQLite which you can access and query from directly. [1] https://logten.com/ [2] https://jameshard.ing/posts/querying-logten-pilot-logbook-sq...
Comment linking /posts/querying-logten-pilot-logbook-sql
on “Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights”Submitted Show HN: Airline pilot's interactive guide to aviation radio as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe logbook is nice, but the split-flap display is downright awesome. ;) https://jameshard.ing/projects/split-flap
Comment linking /projects/split-flap
on “Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights”Submitted Airlines Safely Dispatch Aircraft with Failed Equipment (The Mel) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://jameshard.ing is mine :) My airline pilot logbook statistics page was quite popular on HN last year
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”I work as an airline pilot, and I just recently calculated mine to be 65,658 tonnes in my 10-year career so far (not quite so bad when calculated per seat-mile, but still eye opening!). https://jameshard.ing/pilot/#statistics
Comment linking /pilot/
on “I put my whole life into a single database”