OrbitalMartian

Today's work on the Hawk T.1 for #FlightGear is formations.

Finally got a working Diamond Nine formation.- The trademark formation of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Display Team The Red Arrows.

So, I did a ton of work the last couple of days on the Hawk T1 project for #FlightGear .

And... today, for the first time in FlightGear, I've gone "Smoke on" in the Red Arrows Livery (which is now somewhat fixed, compared to the mess that it was).

Video of smoke: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ37L3GpO9U

And a new release on git. - https://codeberg.org/OrbitalMartian/HawkT1/releases/tag/0.3

New #Blost !

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2026-05-13-week-notes-19/

#WeekNotes W19

Am I the only #Polymaths social user whose notifications feed has just gone blank, I only have one in there.

Yesterday, I finally got around to making a Catppuccin Latte theme (with a blue accent colour) for #Orbitalfore , update got published yesterday morning.

Matches my #Vivaldi theme - https://themes.vivaldi.net/themes/ayRlXVdAJ0M

I'm really enjoying the Catppuccin Latte theme.

New #Blost !

Spicing Up My Website

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2026-05-09-spicing-up-my-website/

New #Blost !

April 2026

I have borrowed a couple of ideas from @joel 's Month Summaries (the emojis and the Goals section).

... I've been slowly chipping away at this for the last couple of weekends, and I released v0.2 this evening.

https://codeberg.org/OrbitalMartian/HawkT1/releases/tag/0.2

#FlightGear

I'm working on something for #FlightGear . Another aircraft, this one from scratch. Got a lot of work left to go.

New #Blost !

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2026-04-25-week-notes-15-16/

#WeekNotes 15 & 16 - together.

I felt like showing this off.

I took the existing T-45 Goshawk (US Navy trainer) and converted it to the British Hawk T.1. I've still got a bit of work to do on it but it's coming along really nicely.

#FlightGear

Oh cool, #Smolfedi has just got the Local and Federated timeine. I never go to the Federated but Local is a big one for me.

I've gone naked for #CSSNakedDay

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/

Hopefully I remember to readd the CSS tomorrow 🤣

New YouTube video!

Finally got round to recording another video, It's only been 2 months :D

https://youtu.be/BWXcQzdn2Q0?si=FcO32F6oyKoF9mlx

#FlashingLights Fire Department Calls

New #Blost !

Looking back on March.

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2026-04-01-march-2026/

New #Blost !

There's a chirping coming from my desktop - thanks to @buddiesofbudgie

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2026-03-20-chirping-desktop/

#BudgieDesktop

I finally got round to getting a release out for Apollo - my text editor.

**Release Announcement #Blost **
https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2026-03-18-apollo-1-the-launch/

Release Itself
https://codeberg.org/OrbitalMartian/apollo/releases/tag/v1.0

Hopefully I've remembered everything in the details :D

I'm facing a slight problem with my project.

#QT / #Kirigami doesn't show properly outside of KDE Plasma, I need to figure it out before I can think about a new release of Apollo.

https://codeberg.org/OrbitalMartian/apollo/issues/28

New #Blost !

KoulDE I Use Plasma?

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2026-03-06-koulde-i-use-plasma/

I'm livestreaming some #FlightGear HEMS flying in the AW109.

Come along and hang out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TApKQJaCjHU

Today I setup a #WritingMonth project for my new novel project that I started last month. I've got a goal of 2000 words in January (setup as of today) which I am very close to reaching, with a goal of 5000 words in February.

Check out my WritingMonth profile here which will show all current and future goals - https://writingmonth.org/~orbitalmartian/

I did a new video on YouTube. Not my Minecraft series but
#FlightGear this time with a HEMSGen mission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sKOoCGdceQ

Enjoy!

I've did an awesome flight today in #FlightGear a 4 hour HEMS shift. I posted about it on the FlightGear forum, with some screenshots. I won't send the screenshots themselves here as I don't want to burden the server.

But you can see them on the forum - link here - https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=43989#p437378

Enjoy looking at them :) Any questions, please ask.

So today I quickly doodled a penguin in #PixelArt using #LibreSprite on my new tablet.

Yes LibreSprite has an Android version.

New #Blost !

It's been a while since the last one, so here's a nice long one.

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2025-10-21-32-days-of-debian/

#2YearLinuxChallenge

PSA to #OrbitalFore and #Enafore users, a mass amount of emojis in your notifications tab will break things. The interaction buttons will not properly render, clearly as it's trying to load emojis first.

New Video!

Police K9 Major Incident Response

https://youtu.be/uK-huYu-uI4

#FlashingLights

New #Blost !

I don't use Arch btw!

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2025-09-26-debian-13-switch/

#2YearLinuxChallenge #Debian

Welcome all the new people here at #Polymaths ! It's great to see all the new faces :)

New #Blost !

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2025-09-11-2-year-linux-challenge-update/

64 days and going strong.

#2YearLinuxChallenge

#OrbitalFore users, it seems that the previous issue of pages not automatically updating has been fixed. I am going to pull the latest commits and let it build, update should be available in about 10-15 minutes I'd say.

#Orbitalfore users — I have just pulled the latest commits from the upstream, this has deployed successfully, your app may ask you to reload it. It seems to be all backend stuff, nothing too exciting nor anything in your face.

New #Blost !

I Start My #2YearLinuxChallenge .

https://orbitalmartian.codeberg.page/blog/2025-07-09-2-year-linux-challenge/

New #Blost !

June 2025

https://orbitalmartian.codeberg.page/blog/2025-07-02-june-2025/

#MonthReview - been a while, going to try to get back into these.

This is a repost from my main account - to test Mastodon comments on my blog.

New #Blost !

June 2025

https://orbitalmartian.codeberg.page/blog/2025-07-02-june-2025/

#MonthReview - been a while, going to try to get back into these.

New #Blost!

June Is Upon Us

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2025/june-is-upon-us/

#MonthReview

I've muted the #Hellthreadia conversation. I lost track within the first hour of it and I got lost in notifications.

My #Vivaldi theme has 239 downloads with 5 star review. Glad people enjoy it.

https://themes.vivaldi.net/themes/ayRlXVdAJ0M
#VivaldiThemes

I need to get round to writing a blost about how to make the themes.

I’ve played with my #QTile config and I’m having some fun. I am going to change the bar up a little bit and change the border colours.

I’m also using this change of WM to give dmenu a try as opposed to Rofi (which has slowed down on my laptop of late) which is a lot speedier, now I need to customise the config of that.

#Blost 4/100 for #100DaysToOffload

My QTile Journey Begins Here

https://orbitalmartian.codeberg.page/blog/2025/qtile-journey-begins/
#QTile

I'm going to be trying QTile today. I'm curious what cool features does it have (that aren't publicly known?

Also is QTile going Wayland? I'm asking so I know what to expect in the future.

#QTile #AskFedi

So in this year, I have moved my site around so much and I think that I am going to move it in the New Year. I don’t want to experiment with my main site, I want to have a final iteration of it first. I’m thinking Zola (as I felt more at ease with that).

I’ve used:

• #Eleventy
• #Zola
• #Hugo
• #Pelican
• #barf
• #BashBlog

If there is any other SSGs that people know about and recommend, I’ll give them a go and then make a decision. But I do think it’ll be a Zola site.

#FediNotes

I’m curious whether there is an eta from @Vivaldi on when the Sync will be back up.

Is there an estimated date for when it will be sorted.

Best of wishes in getting the issue/s sorted :)

#Vivaldi #VivaldiSync @jon

@rl_dane Will this become the first Polymaths Social #Hellthreadia ?

New YouTube video!
Big Fire in the Tunnel
#FlashingLights
https://youtu.be/a2ivxfPMcLk

The first time I used the built in Steam recording too, it is great until you try to watch back on Windows as it is encoded with HVEC which the codec is paid in the MS Store.

I'm getting myself setup with a nice i3 rice. I'm working on the bar at the minute, does anyone know how to get all workspaces to show (no matter whether it's got something in or not) in #Polybar . It's using the xworkspaces module (code below).

[module/xworkspaces]
type = internal/xworkspaces

label-active = %name%
label-active-background = ${colors.background-alt}
label-active-underline= ${colors.primary}
label-active-padding = 1

label-occupied = %name%
label-occupied-padding = 1

label-urgent = %name%
label-urgent-background = ${colors.alert}
label-urgent-padding = 1

label-empty = %name%
label-empty-foreground = ${colors.disabled}
label-empty-padding = 1

#AskFedi #PleaseBoost

@amin #hellthreadia !!!

Poll time.

Which CSS framework should I use on my website?

#AskFedi #ReadableCSS #SimpleCSS
My mind is leaning more towards Readable but that might just be me.

New YouTube video!
https://youtu.be/XjzNuVq48r4

Shorter than normal but still great content.
#FlashingLights

@krafter #Hellthreadia :)