Recent blog posts
The 50:HERTZ Club Train at ADE 2024
At the time of writing this, the 50:HERTZ Club Train should be returning to
Amsterdam Centraal after its final trip for the weekend. The Amsterdam Dance
Event (ADE) is held every October with conferences and festivals for
professionals in the industry and festivalgoers. This year 50:HERTZ organised
the "Club Train" consisting of eight separate 4-ish hour trips all starting
and ending at Amsterdam
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Stadler's Growth in the USA
Tucked away in the fields of Bussnang, Switzerland is the headquarters of one
of the world's largest railway equipment manufacturers, Stadler Rail. Well-
known for its configurable high-speed, intercity, and regional trains such as
the SMILE, KISS, FLIRT, and GTW, Stadler also manufactures trams, locomotives,
and other custom equipment such as rack railway rolling stock. You can find
their equipme
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Stabilise video using FFmpeg
FFmpeg has the ability to stabilise a video using a 2 pass approach. I first
learnt about this from a post on Paul Irish's website and later also shared
the link. Their post also includes a useful single command to stabilise and
create a comparison video to see the before and after. The purpose of my entry
is to add some references and commands that I've found useful mostly for me to
look up later
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Departure timers to improve level crossing safety
The Netherlands has a fairly large and busy railway network with close to 400
passenger stations on 3000 line kilometres and with its largest operator, NS,
transporting over 1 million passengers per day. Where rail meets road there
are over 2000 crossings throughout the country. That comes out to a crossing
every 1.3 kilometres on average.1
Given the high density of rail traffic and the number of
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Recent toots
Amsterdam Centraal gets the test ICNG-B, 3315, to Brussels-Zuid today.
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@rubenerd Miniflux user here, so that's the way I voted.
I did compile a list of popular RSS clients based on Robb Knight's App
Defaults project. "Reeder" seemed to be the most popular client. However for
those that chose a combined aggrigator and client Feedbin, FreshRSS and
Miniflux had pretty much the same number of users.
https://blog.pesky.moe/posts/2024-03-16-rss-feeds/#rss-apps
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From these pictures posted on r/Myanmar seems like some stations have level
boarding but some rely on large steps bolted onto the platform.
https://www.reddit.com/r/myanmar/comments/1fv1kdk/japans_jica_funded_mitsubishi_spain_made_demu/
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I see th new CAF DEMU's for Myanmar's Yangon Circular Railway has arrived.
They haven't got the level boarding quite right just yet...
https://youtu.be/TVqz6oZlhaM?t=880
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We meet the Tommie & Tess loc again, this time as part of the 50:Hertz Club
Train for ADE at Amsterdam Centraal.
#amsterdamcentraal
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Just my luck, I planned my afternoon trip to coincide with the 9536 service to
see the ICNG-B in action but this service is cancelled today :blobfoxcry2:
https://treinposities.nl/ritinfo/20241014/9536
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Video of bendy boi being dragged away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzjzTXPgGqw
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Recent beer check-ins
Pesky P. is drinking an Ichnusa Non Filtrata by Ichnusa
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Pesky P. is drinking a Salted Maple Stout by Totem
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Pesky P. is drinking a Peach Ice Tea Table Sour by Vault City Brewing
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Pesky P. is drinking a Non De Jus! by 100 Watt Brewery
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Recent Anilist activity
Pesky plans to watch Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season
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Pesky completed Rising Impact
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Pesky watched episode 19 - 25 of Rising Impact.
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Pesky watched episode 16 - 18 of Rising Impact.
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