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Recent blog posts

First impressions of Excalidraw A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon Excalidraw, which is a whiteboarding/diagramming tool that has a certain _aesthetic_. I liked the design of the diagrams I saw, so I decided to give it a try. Coming from drawio, I was immediately impressed with how intuitive it felt. After playing around with Excalidraw for an hour, I decided it was worth actually using for work, and so I hosted it locally on my m Read more.
Notes on backup plans in AWS Backup AWS Backup is a service that helps orchestrate, audit, and restore backups within and across AWS accounts. The content of this post are my personal notes on backup plans, and do not reflect the views of my employer. A core component of the AWS Backup service is the backup plan. The AWS documentation describes a backup plan as: > […] a policy expression that defines **when** and **how** you want Read more.
Railway crossing at Keverdijk May 5 is Liberation Day in the Netherlands, commemorating the country's liberation from the Nazis in 1945. The day proceeds Remembrance Day, which honours those who died during the Second World War. Every five years Liberation Day is a public holiday in the Netherlands, and 2025 is was one of those years. I decided to use the day off and visit Keverdijk, a strip of road that sits on the _Nieuwe Ke Read more.
Configure Amazon Cognito with Grafana In my foray into becoming more active on StackOverflow I came across a question from 7 years ago asking how to use Grafana with Amazon Cognito. I'm sure they either figured something out or no longer need an answer but I gave a stab at answering it anyways. This post will be a step-by-step guide on setting up authentication for self- hosted Grafana through Amazon Cognito using the generic OAuth m Read more.

Recent toots

I might have been too aggressive while pulling out this dead hard drive. At least it was already kaput. Read more.
I needed to add an extra drive to my computer but didn't have room. I guess I've done worse. Read more.
"When cities fail to provide benches we build and install our own." Over 40 benches placed mostly at bus stops by the community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Good to see it. https://sfbabc.org/ Read more.
Just navigated the web without an ad blocker for the first time in maybe two years. It's like staring at the sun. Read more.
You MUST listen to RFC 2119. https://ericwbailey.website/published/you-must-listen-to-rfc-2119/ Thank you @eric for this gem. Read more.
I see Albert Heijn has a new pesto varieties, that's replaced some of their old ones. It's sad to see the regular vegan red pesto gone. They'd just switched that to the new AH Terra packaging too. The vegan option now is the "Pesto Arrabbiata" without the Terra branding. Let's see how it tastes... Read more.

Recent beer check-ins

Pesky P. is drinking a Lander Bräu Weissbeer by H-West B.V. View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a Wispe Tripel by Wispe Brouwerij at Untappd at Home View check-in.
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.

Recent Anilist activity

Pesky watched episode 10 - 16 of Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 8 - 9 of Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 6 - 7 of Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 4 - 5 of Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite. View activity.