Recent blog posts
Deciding on an instant access S3 class
Amazon S3 provides multiple storage classes depending on your object's access
patterns and requirements for retrieval speeds. S3 Standard, Infrequent Access
and Glacier Instance Retrieval all provide millisecond first-byte latency for
object retrievals but charge different rates per GB of data stored and
retrieved. Generally speaking, the colder a storage tier is, the cheaper it is
to store data,
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Saying goodbye to bicycle gutters?
I was not expecting a large amount of press coverage on bicycle gutters at
train stations, but it makes sense given that this is the Netherlands.
ProRail, in a weird move, based on their internal investigation and reports,
has a new policy where no bicycle gutters will be installed at staircases in
new or renovated stations. These gutters are channels at the side of
staircases designed to fit bicy
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Query Glue tables across accounts and regions
Recently, I updated a Stack Overflow answer to include some information on
Lake Formation that was new to me: _resource links_. The answer also covered a
few other methods to query data cataloged in Glue across accounts and regions.
Here's the setup: you have a Glue Data Catalog and a S3 bucket in an AWS
account called _Owner Account_ , and there are users in different AWS accounts
and regions tha
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Creating a degraded ZFS pool
TL;DR: There may come a time when you need to build a ZFS pool in a
temporarily degraded state. Reddit user u/mercenary_sysadmin describes how
this is done, and this post provides additional commentary.
The approach uses a temporary file in place of the disk, then taking it
offline resulting in a degraded pool. When the physical disk is available, the
file can be replaced with the actual disk in
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Recent toots
Fixed the config file to use the new syntax but now page summaries through
".Summary" seem to render HTML in the auto summary.
Digging through the source code commits adding `{{ .Summary | plainify }}` seems to revert this back to what I need it to be.
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/37609262dcddac6d3358412b10214111b4d4dc3d
With this change I can finally upgrade Hugo from v0.132.0 to v0
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I can get around it by using os.readFile [0] and transform.Unmarshal but I
can't go past v0.128.0 because "site config key paginate was deprecated"
:revblobfoxnotlikethis:
[0] https://gohugo.io/functions/os/readfile/
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Trying to get rid of data.GetJSON in my Hugo template so I can upgrade past
v0.123.0.
Why? I'm procrastinating on more important stuff.
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Reminded by Andreas' (@82mhz) blog post about repurposing 'Techtember'[0], a
month where companies reveal their latest products harboring consumer desires
for the latest gadget, into a month of revisiting our electronic devices and
letting go of what we don't need I saw the Gemeente Amsterdam's[1] drive in
primary schools to help repair, reuse or recycle old electrical appliances.
Students from p
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I've been sleeping on this, you can now "Skip OS shutdown" for :aws_logo: EC2
instances. Looks like it's the equivalent of just pulling the power cord on
your computer. Now just have to wait for the :terraform_logo: Terraform
provider to support this so I can bring my VPN nodes up and down quickly.
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/43726
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Over the years I've gone through a few coffee presses, they all seem to last a
year or so before the glass container breaks. Maybe I'm too rough on them or
just unlucky. Instead of buying a new one I decided to buy and try the
AeroPress for the first time, no regrets. My morning coffee has been upgraded.
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Recent beer check-ins
Pesky P. is drinking a NIJPA by Brouwerij 't IJ
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Pesky P. is drinking a Levensgenieter by KOMPAAN Dutch Craft Beer Company
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Pesky P. is drinking a Bon Chef by Two Chefs Brewing
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Pesky P. is drinking a Pilsener by Brauerei VELTINS
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