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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

After a week of using Windows 11, one thing that really grinds my gears is the inability to open an app when clicking on a notification. Surely there's a way to do this? It's worked fine on Windows 10. Also, seems I'm not alone in this. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/clicking-notifications- in-windows-11-doesnt-open/864e5deb-1bea-4248-90fe-4befd8ce57ce Read more.
With the Windows 11 choice of font, rounded corners and new icons all make the OS look more inviting and comfy. Not something I expect from a work laptop, but okay. The emojis, though... they just look creepy. Read more.
Anyone interested in a DAF B1600 bus or a replica of a Fokker F.VII? The Nederlands Transport Museum has put up some of their stuff for auction after unfortunately being unable to find a new location. They officially closed in 2023. https://www.onlineauctionmaster.com/en/auctions/7669/lots Read more.
My work laptop just upgraded from Windows 10 to 11. First job was to set the task bar to be left-aligned, next is to learn to embrace all the rounded corners. Read more.
@cinimodev I've had the site open in a browser tab for the last few days. Way too easy to sucked in... Read more.

Recent beer check-ins

Pesky P. is drinking a Cerveza Fresca by Brouwers at Untappd at Home View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a Wispe Blond by Wispe Brouwerij at Untappd at Home View check-in.
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.

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.