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Suggesting related content in Hugo
It has been 87 days since I enabled the ability to show related content at the
bottom of each post on this blog, aptly titled "Related ramblings". This uses
Hugo's built-in Related Content functionality. If you use a pre-made theme you
may never directly work with this feature. I wanted to highlight how easy it
was to use and how impressed and I am with the results.
To enable my theme to use this
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Farewell NS 1700
Between 1990 and 1994 eighty-one Class 1700 locomotives were built by Alstom.
These were an iteration of the Class 1600 that came before, based on the
French BB 7200. Over the years they were used in a push-pull configuration for
DD-AR coaches, ICRm coaches, and others. By the 2010s most of the locomotives
were no longer used and in 2019 the 1700 locomotives were only used to pull
the IC Berlin
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Leaves and trains don't mix: Maliebaan edition
Well, it's time to revisit the topic of leaf fall. About a month has passed
since my last post on the subject of adhesion and leaves on the track, and it
is time for a quick update. As of 8th November, ProRail has deemed it unsafe
to operate trains between Utrecht Centraal and Utrecht Maliebaan, the home of
the railway museum. The culprit? Leaves on the track causing the train to go
incognito.
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Should you really build your own SSG?
It was a rainy Saturday afternoon when I was at a cafe with my wife scrolling
through Hacker News when I came across Arne's blog on why you should write
your own static site generator (SSG). I had recently gone down that road
myself, at least partially, so seeing someone's views on the same topic
intrigued me. I've been meaning to gather my thoughts around the subject, and
what better time than
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Recent toots
choo choo 🚂
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Both ProRail and NS have described their approach in extreme winter conditions
to keep trains running.[1] They mentioned in severe winter, 92% switches would
be reduced, leaving 500 active switches. Given this number, the total switch
count would be 6250, whereas ProRail Key Figures says there are 6107
switches.[2] It's a small discrepancy but where are these extra switches
:blobfoxcomputerowono
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@TechConnectify I think "warm white" is a better description.
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@donkersgoed @werner Congratulations!
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Good morning from the quiet side of Amsterdam Zuid.
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@neilmadden A very informative and scary read.
"The problem is [IT staff] ... did not sufficiently consider the actual
clinical workflow.. [The workflow is] seen as an
annoyance, not as a patient safety effort."
"In rare exceptions, when the workarounds become
obvious to leaders ... there may
be repercussions. These common forms of ignorance, or willful blindness, or
incomprehension al
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I would consider it uncalled for and inappropriate to yell at a colleague. My
job allows me to interface with other companies and I've seen some yelling
:blobfoxteaterrified:
It's rare but still.
Reading Jacob's (@jacob) blog reminded me of those times..
A quote:
If emotional expression were a ten-point scale, with 1 being “a computer” and
10 being “soap opera”, at work you should never get
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