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Recent blog posts

The 7 hour trip to Metz Train for Metz-Ville at Luxembourg station. This month I had to travel to Metz and decided to book the trip by train from Utrecht. The other option was to fly from the Netherlands to Luxembourg and take the train across the border to Metz, France. I'm happy to say the 7-hour journey by train went great. There were a few minutes of delay in places but the transfer times between trains were enough Read more.
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 Read more.
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 Read more.
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 Read more.

Recent toots

Intercity (IC 500 series) service between Naarden-Bussum and Utrecht Centraal today :blobfoxhyper2: https://treinposities.nl/ritinfo/20241115/532 Read more.
With my home lab I've gotten to the point where if a service fails or the network goes out everything will eventually work. Mostly thanks to Docker, application side resiliency, fstab mounts, systemd and a bit of scripting. However, if something does go sideways my status page notifies me and I can go in and fix it. The problem is things run a long time without breaking and I forget how they're a Read more.
Utrecht to Luxembourg was booked through NS International, and Luxembourg to Metz was booked through SNCF Connect. NS International was actually able to show the entire trip to Metz but didn’t allow me to book it hence having to use SNCF Connect for the last leg. The end to end trip totalled €116.20. A flight from the Netherlands to Luxembourg alone is anywhere between €116 to €152 and the overal Read more.
This month I had to travel to Metz and decided to book the trip by train from Utrecht. I’m happy to say the 7-hour journey by train went great. There were a few minutes of delay in places but the transfer times between trains were enough of a buffer. A breakdown of the trip; Utrecht Centraal 🇳🇱 - Maastricht 🇳🇱 - Liége- Guillemins 🇧🇪 - Luxembourg 🇱🇺 - Metz 🇫🇷. Read more.
Amsterdam Centraal gets the test ICNG-B, 3315, to Brussels-Zuid today. Read more.
@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 Read more.
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/ Read more.

Recent beer check-ins

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.
Pesky P. is drinking a Peach Ice Tea Table Sour by Vault City Brewing View check-in.

Recent Anilist activity

Pesky watched episode 5 - 7 of Dandadan. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 1 - 4 of Dandadan. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 2 - 6 of Ranma 1/2 (2024). View activity.
Pesky watched episode 1 of Ranma 1/2 (2024). View activity.