How to Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi ✈️

​How to Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi​

A little DIY project my son and I have built several times. My son asked to build it yet again and this time I decided to document the process. A simple overview of how to setup a Raspberry Pi and start monitoring air traffic in no time at all. This article also landed on the front page of Hacker News for two days in a row ;)

​Stories for VS Code

Adding the social aspect to coding in VS Code is a great idea. Now, with the new Stories Extension, you can share live coding snippets to a broader audience. It works just like Facebook or Instagram stories. You record your screen into a GIF and share it with other interested VS Code users. Please have a look at the YouTube demo to see it in action.

​How Kelsey Hightower became one of the most respected people in Cloud Computing​

I couldn't agree more with this article. A great story about Kelsey's journey. Better read it as it's amazing!

​6 Scary Outage Stories from CTO's​

It is interesting to read some of the crazy things that happen behind the scenes of tech companies. However, I find the title a bit misleading as my experiences are closer to DevOps/SRE teams which usually are the ones with a finger on the pulse of the entire operation. Outages happen all the time, but by the time it gets to the CTO level, it is already bad...really bad.

​How Hydrogen Powered Drones will fix 5G Coverage​

The challenge with mobile antennas is that they are on the ground and are challenged with the landscape, buildings, and other objects to block or deflect the signal. A solution that has been in use for years in the military is to use planes or in this case drones to broadcast signals downwards. Mounting 5G antennas on drones would significantly increase coverage.

…That’s this week’s theByte newsletter!

-Brian

​theByte.io