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Trains to Hamburg again? Sort of. 2026-08-28 Earlier this year, I shared how excited I was for a direct service between Amsterdam and Hamburg by GoVolta. This rail link could have also provided a hop to Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia, especially as it lined up with GoVolta's expansion plans. Unfortunately, that didn't last long and the service to Hamburg was cancelled only three months after starting. According to Thibault Lapers from m Read more.

Ground-level power supply for trams 2026-08-22 Most trams you'll encounter today run on electricity using an overhead contact system, or OCS for short. This usually includes one wire, called the contact wire, powered by feeder stations providing DC voltage, which is "collected" by a pantograph connected to the roof of a tram. This provides power to the tram while it's moving or standing still. A GVB 15G tram (CAF Urbos 100) at Amsterdam Zuid. Read more.

Deleting S3 Tables resources 2026-08-13 S3 Tables still does not provide a great console experience despite being around for two-ish years now. This is evident when looking for an easy way to delete the resoure you create with it through the console. So here are some easy AWS CLI commands I've been using to delete resources when testing S3 Tables. First, there's three resources types that get created, a table, a namespace and a table b Read more.

Eurostar Snow and Travelski Night Express 2026-07-26 Eurostar released the schedule for its winter ski season, earlier this month, the "Eurostar Snow". Since I covered what the inaugural Travelski Night Express service would look like, it would be interesting to compare it against the now established Eurostar Snow. Eurostar Snow begins their seasonal service on 19 December 2026, offering a train to and from Amsterdam and Bourg-Saint-Maurice every S Read more.

2026-08-29 Exit through the window. Read more.

2026-08-28 I noticed the GoVolta route between Amsterdam and Berlin goes through Hamburg starting October (because of track works between Hannover-Berlin), at least according to the NS Intl travel planner. The GoVolta site itself doesn't show any tickets for sale to Hamburg through, I guess that ship has sailed, if the route is correct. Read more.

2026-08-26 @mattblaze Including an interesting interview after the talk https://youtu.be/AJCWsoozg0Q Read more.

2026-08-22 @chetman @matdevdug @daringfireball I read Gruber's take after reading about the decision directly from the Dutch data protection authority (AP). While the number of drivers affected may be few, everything was done by the book. It's not that AP is against catching scamming drivers but that the suspension was done fully autonomously and without proper notification. It seems Uber only did this betw Read more.

2026-08-22 Just updated Kdenlive from 25.x to 26.x and I don't have to worry about pre- converting my variable frame rate (VFR) video files any more so they work well with everything else. The built-in conversion is much more stable. I've been missing out. #kdenlive Read more.

2026-08-21 🚧 Construction rail vehicles at the Santa Eulàlia metro depot. #Barcelona Read more.

2026-08-20 I recently learned that :aws_logo: internet gateway does a one-to-one destination NAT for public IPs inside a VPC, this includes public load balancers and elastic IPs (EIPs) on EC2 instances. So for any inbound IP filtering rules I need get the private IP addresses of the resources (if filtering by destination IP). The closet documentation[1] I could find of this behaviour talks about this in reg Read more.

2025-11-24 Pesky P. is drinking a San Miguel Premium Especial by Grupo Mahou-San Miguel View check-in.

2025-10-05 Pesky P. is drinking a Cosmic Blond by Uiltje Brewing Company View check-in.

2025-09-28 Pesky P. is drinking an IPA by Honest Greens at Honest Greens View check-in.

2025-09-07 Pesky P. is drinking a NIJPA by Brouwerij 't IJ View check-in.

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2026-07-27 peskypotato completed Isekai Shokudou 2 View activity.