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Recent blog posts

NS Dubbeldekker Nieuwe Generatie's design On 5 March 2025, the Dutch Railways (NS) presented a model of their interior for the Dubbeldekker Nieuwe Generatie (Double-Decker New Generation), or DDNG for short. This train will be introduced in 2029 to replace the ageing DDZ and provide additional capacity to intercity services. I was going to write an overview of the DDNG and realised the train did not have an English Wikipedia page yet, so Read more.
Using S3 Metadata to list recently uploaded objects Recently, Simon Willison shared how he uses S3 event notifications with Lambda and DynamoDB to list recently uploaded files from an S3 bucket. The first thought that occurred to me was to use S3 inventory which provides a daily catalog of objects within a bucket queriable through Athena. The second idea involved doing the same with the recently announced S3 metadata feature. Both methods, I discov Read more.
Identifying your AWS account when using multiple sessions Last month, AWS announced multi-session support natively in the AWS console; previously I'd relied on Firefox containers to separate logins between accounts. This can be easily enabled from the account drop-down in the top right of the console. Multi-session support enabled and the usual account ID and IAM role is visible in the top right. Once enabled, this feature supports up to five sessions Read more.
Save and load Docker images locally While trying to test recovery of a service from a backup, as everyone should, I discovered a container image was no longer available from Docker Hub anymore. I was greeted by the following error: ERROR: The image for the service you're trying to recreate has been removed. If you continue, volume data could be lost. Consider backing up your data before continuing. Continue with t Read more.

Recent toots

The office building I work at has been replacing the old chairs with new ones. It's been 4 years and I still haven't figured out how to lower the arm rests and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. Read more.
@limebar @freebliss I'm not familiar with hostinger but if I understand what you are asking it should be possible. I've done something similar on Linode in the past. I purchased/managed a domain name and generated subdomains for family/friends to use. They each got a user created in Linode so they could log in and create DNS records for their subdomain only, that way they could point it to whate 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 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.
Pesky completed Kimetsu no Yaiba: Yuukaku-hen View activity.