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Recent blog posts

Trams in Luxembourg On 5 September 1964, the last tram ran in the city of Luxembourg from the district of Beggen. First introduced in 1875 in the form of horse-drawn carriages on rails, trams helped transport passengers to and from the central train station in the country's capital to the north of the city. The construction was funded by the city and the company SATL, _Société Anonyme du Tramway Luxembourgeois_ , was Read more.
Import a CSV file into SQLite ## sqlite3 CLI Using the sqlite3 CLI allows you to import CSV files into a new or existing database file. The following multi-line command will import the CSV file, `disruptions.csv` into the `disruptions` table. All columns will be of type TEXT if created by the import command. sqlite3 data.db <Read more.
Bad week for the Dutch Railway The Dutch Railway, NS, has not been having a good week, in fact, this Monday NS reported the lowest punctuality score this year with 72.3% of passengers arriving to their destination with less than a five-minute delay, the average is around 90%. This week has been difficult due to several different factors. There were a few very unfortunate incidents between trains and passengers on the track on M Read more.
Fetching RSS feeds from YouTube It's an open secret that you can follow YouTube channels through RSS, it's also something I've covered on this blog before. What I wasn't aware of until recently was how difficult it could be to find the RSS feed for a YouTube channel. I mistakenly thought any RSS service could discover the feed URL from a YouTube channel, but after chatting with Andreas (82Mhz) on Mastodon we discovered this wasn Read more.

Recent toots

Well, I just temporarily took down my server. Note to self, do not edit videos directly off the file share. Read more.
@q The Siemens Desiro (AM08) trains used by NMBS have the same overhead plug. I've seen an adapter fall and bonk a passenger on the head once. :blobfoxscared: Read more.
I see Duivendrecht station is ready for the new Intercity direct route. Read more.
SNCF Voyageurs seems to think the new OUIGO Train Classique is a rocket, but only from Paris to Brussels on 19 December at 19:15. Read more.
@mattgrayyes I've been loosely following Gov.uk's blog this year on their development of the chat bot. They completed some internal "red teaming" earlier this year and later started private betas. I think their first post in January provides the most context for those just now learning about the bot: https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2024/01/18/the-findings-of-our-first- generative-ai-experiment-go 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 completed Dandadan View activity.
Pesky watched episode 4 - 6 of Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 1 - 3 of Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi. View activity.
Pesky plans to watch Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi View activity.