Flight Path

A rotating globe of the 2026 POAP Airport Rally with claims, a leaderboard, and each collector’s path, built from an iPhone.

Status: Retired Deliberately ended.
Dates: Started Feb 25, 2026. Ended Jul 24, 2026
Where: web.archive.org/web/20260312035500/flightpath.poaprally.com/
Topics: POAP Agents
Latest evidence: Latest commit, Jul 24, 2026

Flight Path lived at flightpath.poaprally.com and extended POAP’s year-long Airport POAP Rally, which I already followed on my Airport POAP Rally site, which put location POAPs at 100 airports around the world. It showed a rotating globe with every rally airport and the number of claims at each, a leaderboard of collectors, and any one collector’s own path.

As I told it in Weekly Thing 342, I built it on the evening of 2026-02-25, in bed, entirely on my iPhone. I worked out the idea with ChatGPT, had it write a CLAUDE.md, created a fresh GitHub repository on my phone with that file and my CSV of rally airports and drop IDs, and attached a cloud Claude Code session to it. While Claude Code wrote the site I set up the DNS name and GitHub Pages, and it worked on the first deploy. I called it bonkers. In late March 2026 the repository added teams, maps, and a daily data update.

Flight Path read live POAP claim data, so it could not outlive POAP. On July 24, 2026, a week before POAP shut down, I replaced the site with a notice that the rally had ended, pointing to poaparchive.com, removed the daily update, and archived the repository. The host no longer answers; a March 2026 capture preserves the site as it ran.

Activity

41 commits (28 with Claude, 5 with another agent, 8 by me), the first on Feb 25, 2026.

The latest weeks with activity

Week of Jul 20, 2026 2 commits, all with Claude
- Fix npm audit highs so the sunset notice can deploy
- Retire Flight Path: replace site with POAP sunset notice
Week of Jul 13, 2026 5 commits, all with an agent
2 more commits on GitHub
Week of Jun 8, 2026 7 commits, all with Claude
4 more commits on GitHub
Week of Mar 23, 2026 12 commits (9 with Claude, 3 by me)
9 more commits on GitHub

All activity, week by week. Who made each commit is from its author and co-author lines.

Sources and evidence

Observed daily from GitHub, sitemaps, feeds, the Internet Archive, and Tinylytics. Evidence never sets a status.

jthingelstad/flightpath.poaprally.com implementation archived on GitHub

Flight Path — a visualization for the POAP Airport Rally.
- Repository created Feb 26, 2026 (a development record, not a launch date)
- JavaScript, CSS, Python
- Latest commit Jul 24, 2026; 7 commits on main between Jul 1, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026
- Observed Oct 23, 2026
weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/342/ reference
www.thingelstad.com/2026/02/25/it-is-bonkers-to-me.html reference
web.archive.org/web/20260312035500/flightpath.poaprally.com/ archive
- First archived Mar 6, 2026 by the Internet Archive (existence evidence, not a launch date)
- Observed Oct 18, 2026

Commits and publications per month, last twelve months.

Connections

Airport POAP Rally led to Flight Path

Flight Path, built two months later on the same poaprally.com domain, drew its globe from the CSV of rally airports and drop IDs I had made for “another project I had done.” Source

History

Jul 24, 2026 retirement Flight Path retired
A week before POAP’s shutdown, I replace the globe with a sunset notice and archived the repository. Source
Feb 25, 2026 launch Flight Path takes off
I build Flight Path, extending the POAP Airport Rally, entirely on an iPhone with Claude Code. Source