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Recent blog posts

Goodbye ICE 3M! In 1994, Deutsche Bahn (DB) placed an order for 13 ICE 3M trains. These were the international variants of the 50 ICE 3 trains that would enter service in 1998. The "M" in 3M stands for _mehrsystemfähig_ , as the trainsets would be able to operate under different power supplies, initially for Germany and the Netherlands and later in Switzerland, Belgium, and France. To supplement DB's order, the D Read more.
Querying an object's access tier Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering moves your data to the most cost-effective S3 storage tier based on the object's access pattern for the price of $0.0025 per 1,000 objects it monitors. Since the movement is done by the service you don't know, or need to know, the access tier the object is currently in as all objects can be retrieved asychronously. If you opt-in for asynchronous archive tiers, you can Read more.
Service disruption on 25 March 2025 Last month, my homelab experienced an incident that resulted in service disruption for 3 hours and 8 minutes, and because I like to cosplay as a sysadmin in my free time this is a post-incident analysis. The effects of the disruption were mostly external, mainly affecting the main site and ytrss, internal systems remained unaffected. A virtual machine hosted on Linode needed to be moved between p Read more.
Creating databases and tables for Athena Ben Welsh and Katlyn Alo have created a course that walks through running your first Athena query, complete with sample data. I've written about Athena a few times on this blog and the course works as a great primer. This post will act as an addendum to the guide, specifically step 4, where you create an Athena database and table. A database, in Athena, holds one or more tables, and the table poi Read more.

Recent toots

@cinimodev I've had the site open in a browser tab for the last few days. Way too easy to sucked in... Read more.
I wanted to track down a 53ft shipping container used to transport goods to the US. That's when I came across "Matt's Place". A website with a huge collection of intermodal containers, sorted by type; documenting images, markings and current owners. The FAQ describes the site's purpose is to act as a photo gallery for "transportation historians, scale modelers, and people in the transportation in Read more.
@0xabad1dea This screams, "SAVE ME FROM MY MISERY!" Read more.
@82mhz @sanderium @cinimodev Now that you're not on Hugo, you're really missing out playing Whac-A-Mole with all the deprecation warning and errors—it keeps you on your toes. I've been holding back on upgrading from Hugo v0.132.2 because data.getJSON is deprecated. One weekend, I'm sure I'll get the motivation to fix that and upgrade. Read more.

Recent beer check-ins

Pesky P. is drinking a Stella Artois by Stella Artois at Stadhuis Leuven View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a La Goudale - Blonde à l'Ancienne by Brasserie Goudale - Les Brasseurs de Gayant View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking an Ichnusa Non Filtrata by Ichnusa View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a Salted Maple Stout by Totem View check-in.

Recent Anilist activity

Pesky watched episode 4 - 5 of Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-hen. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 2 - 3 of Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-hen. View activity.
Pesky plans to watch Shuumatsu no Valkyrie III View activity.
Pesky watched episode 1 of Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-hen. View activity.