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Recent blog posts

EdTech gets confusing. Micah Blachman, a seventh-grader, candidly writes about the educational technology used at his school. Reading his insights brought back some memories of when technology like this was first introduced at my school. Now it's been a while, almost two decades, actually, but I remember thinking surely things would get better in the future. It does not. I wanted to add some commentary from my dated pe Read more.
GoVolta connections from Amsterdam to Berlin and Hamburg On 8 December 2025, GoVolta announced its intercity service from Amsterdam to Berlin and Hamburg, starting 19 March 2026 and 20 March 2026, respectively; at first, three times a week each, before increasing to daily in December. The service will alternate between Berlin and to Hamburg, with services to Berlin on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, and Hamburg on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Founded by Read more.
Finding AWS account names If you've worked with AWS thorugh the CLI, you'll be familair with `aws sts get-caller-identity`, essentially the `whoami` and `uname` of the cloud. While working with one or more accounts, getting the caller identity allows you to identify what role or user you are authenticated as and on which AWS account. There's only one thing that I miss while using the API call, a human-readable account name Read more.
NS Sprinters: Flirt Flex On 19 November 2025, the Dutch Railway, NS, announced the purchase of 36 new sprinter trains called the NS Flirt Flex. This will be the 5th generation of sprinter trains used by NS. The tender for these trains began in July 2022 with a request for information (RFI) from European manufacturers. Given sprinter services stop at all stations, the train needed to have quick acceleration and decelerati Read more.

Recent toots

@cmccullough @tehstu I can't believe this is still online after all these years. This is how I learned to touch type in school. I've bookmarked it so I can show it to my son when he's old enough. Read more.
@sami ....you're alive! Read more.
@km I used Veeam professionally too and tried it out on my homelab, the Community Edition worked pretty well. However, it's a bummer you can only run the client on a Windows machine, it was the reason I ended up tearing down the whole setup and resorting to my own rsync scripts and cron jobs again. Read more.
Another update rolled out today, this one thanks to @martijnvdven. YT-RSS now also displays members only feed URLs for shorts, videos and live streams. Their notes goes into some more details on how the URLs are formed. https://zegnat.bearblog.dev/the-rss-world-of-youtube/ Read more.
@82mhz That's great! I'm still surprised how much steady (genuine) traffic this tool gets. Read more.
Looks like version 2.2.15 of miniflux supports fetching RSS feeds for a YouTube channel (all videos) as well as long-form videos, shorts or live streams separately. This is achieved by prefixing the Channel ID with UULF for videos, UUSH for shorts, and UULV for live stream. Now I can remove all the shorts from my subscription feed. This morning I worked this into YT-RSS so you can now get these i Read more.
@cks @gordoooo_z @mayintoronto I've received a system that was developed and maintained by a sole owner, and now am in the position of passing it on to a different team. One of the first things I did was to collect all documentation scraps I could find and glue them in a larger high-level overview. This page/README now serves as a more complete high-level overview of the system that then links t Read more.

Recent beer check-ins

Pesky P. is drinking a San Miguel Premium Especial (5.4%) by Grupo Mahou-San Miguel View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a Cosmic Blond by Uiltje Brewing Company View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking an IPA by Honest Greens at Honest Greens View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a NIJPA by Brouwerij 't IJ View check-in.

Recent Anilist activity

Pesky completed Shuumatsu no Valkyrie III View activity.
Pesky watched episode 12 - 13 of Shuumatsu no Valkyrie III. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 11 of Shuumatsu no Valkyrie III. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 8 - 10 of Shuumatsu no Valkyrie III. View activity.