dashboard
Flight statistics, currency status, and an overview of recent flying activity.
> whoami
Nicola Beirer
Engineer. Explorer. Builder of things.
> ls ./flying --all
nicolaflies.com ↗> ls ./adventures --sort=date | head -3
view all ↗
cycling
Feb 10–15, 2026
Taipei -> Kaohsiung
Last minute cycling trip through central Taiwan and a bit of the west coast before starting a new job
> 630.985 km
> +5445 m
> ls ./gallery --sort=date | head -3
view all ↗
> ls ./projects | head -3
view all ↗AI RAG to query documents related to General Aviation
AI-powered chatbot that uses Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to answer questions about general aviation documents. Users can upload PDF documents and interact with an intelligent chat interface that provides sourced answers from the uploaded content.
Python
Django
RAG AI
PostgreSQL
Docker
AWS
Vector DB
Basketball Reference Team Stats Scrapper
My first major programming project - a Java application that scraped comprehensive NBA team statistics spanning 30+ years from Basketball Reference. Used HTML parsing and regex to extract data, generating hundreds of CSV files. The resulting dataset was published on Kaggle and received positive community feedback.
Java
Web Scraping
HTML Parsing
Data Processing
Regex
LLA Database Project
A complete file-based database implementation in C for managing employee information. Features binary file format with custom headers, CRUD operations, and robust error handling using return values instead of exceptions. Built as a learning project to understand low-level programming concepts.
C
File I/O
Systems Programming
Memory Management
> cat ./blog/index | head -3
view all ↗Aug. 3, 2026
Revisting Flight AI
Update on aviationdocs.net
Sept. 8, 2025
My First Aviation Project
My First time building a full-stack website that is meant to help pilots study and find FAA regulations!
April 9, 2025
LeBron James is not the GOAT
If you think LeBron James is the best basketball player of all time I think you don't have eyes or are just ignorant.