I remember seeing a similar cool GIF for 9/11 flights, and thought it'd be cool to see if for today's ground stop too, and had Claude Code generate the website in ~30 mins.
Liked it so much and thought I'd clean it up a bit, deploy, and share :) Enjoy!
Fun irony (beyond being Friday the 13th): FAA lost radar and frequencies between centers but ADS-B is broadcast by the planes themselves, so a couple hundred hobbyist receivers probably kept the full picture the whole time.
contrary to popular belief, DNS doesn't actually need 24 hours (or whatever) to "propagate". It only needs enough time for caches to expire, if they exist. For non-existent domains this shouldn't be an issue.
DNS controls the length of time an answer is valid (with time-to-live/TTL), some (poorly configured, but for a historical good reason) caching servers ignore the TTL and keep the record much longer (~24 hours).
A non-existent (not yet resolvable) domain, will get an NXDOMAIN response which also gets cached via a TTL setting (which again might be ignored by caching servers).
All that caching - while the current response is still "valid" because the TTL hasn't expired - is what people call "propagation".
I remember seeing a similar cool GIF for 9/11 flights, and thought it'd be cool to see if for today's ground stop too, and had Claude Code generate the website in ~30 mins.
Liked it so much and thought I'd clean it up a bit, deploy, and share :) Enjoy!
Everyone I shared this with while stuck in transit today loved it. Thanks for inspiring some good vibes in Montreal!
What’s underlying data source for it all?
Flight positions: adsb.fi community ADS-B network. Airport delay feed: FAA NAS Status
Really fast work! I didn't know all of this data was publicly available.
Related:
FAA issues national ground stop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641
FAA lifted National Ground Stop at 0119Z
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50492601
Fun irony (beyond being Friday the 13th): FAA lost radar and frequencies between centers but ADS-B is broadcast by the planes themselves, so a couple hundred hobbyist receivers probably kept the full picture the whole time.
Wow, impressive TTM. Barely enough time for the domain to resolve!
>Barely enough time for the domain to resolve!
contrary to popular belief, DNS doesn't actually need 24 hours (or whatever) to "propagate". It only needs enough time for caches to expire, if they exist. For non-existent domains this shouldn't be an issue.
DNS controls the length of time an answer is valid (with time-to-live/TTL), some (poorly configured, but for a historical good reason) caching servers ignore the TTL and keep the record much longer (~24 hours).
A non-existent (not yet resolvable) domain, will get an NXDOMAIN response which also gets cached via a TTL setting (which again might be ignored by caching servers).
All that caching - while the current response is still "valid" because the TTL hasn't expired - is what people call "propagation".