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Recent blog posts

In Praise of --no-dry-run There are scripts that are designed only be run a handful of times, or maybe even once under rare circumstances. They are usually tested a lot of more times than they are intended to be executed, or when they are executed, their actions could be detrimental, this is where `--no-dry-run` option comes in. In my career, I seem to have worked on a lot of system, or application migrations. I'm not sur Read more.
EdTech gets confusing. Micah Blachman, a seventh-grader, candidly writes about the educational technology used at his school. Reading his insights brought back some memories of when technology like this was first introduced at my school. Now it's been a while, almost two decades, actually, but I remember thinking surely things would get better in the future. It does not. I wanted to add some commentary from my dated pe Read more.
GoVolta connections from Amsterdam to Berlin and Hamburg On 8 December 2025, GoVolta announced its intercity service from Amsterdam to Berlin and Hamburg, starting 19 March 2026 and 20 March 2026, respectively; at first, three times a week each, before increasing to daily in December. The service will alternate between Berlin and to Hamburg, with services to Berlin on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, and Hamburg on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Founded by Read more.
Finding AWS account names If you've worked with AWS thorugh the CLI, you'll be familair with `aws sts get-caller-identity`, essentially the `whoami` and `uname` of the cloud. While working with one or more accounts, getting the caller identity allows you to identify what role or user you are authenticated as and on which AWS account. There's only one thing that I miss while using the API call, a human-readable account name Read more.

Recent toots

@coreice InterCity rolling stock at Weesp today? Read more.
Recently took over a project that was filled with TODOs so it was time to install snitch. https://github.com/tsoding/snitch Read more.
TIL it's Tampermonkey not Tapermonkey. I've been saying it wrong for years. Read more.
@cmccullough @tehstu I can't believe this is still online after all these years. This is how I learned to touch type in school. I've bookmarked it so I can show it to my son when he's old enough. Read more.
@sami ....you're alive! Read more.
@km I used Veeam professionally too and tried it out on my homelab, the Community Edition worked pretty well. However, it's a bummer you can only run the client on a Windows machine, it was the reason I ended up tearing down the whole setup and resorting to my own rsync scripts and cron jobs again. Read more.
Another update rolled out today, this one thanks to @martijnvdven. YT-RSS now also displays members only feed URLs for shorts, videos and live streams. Their notes goes into some more details on how the URLs are formed. https://zegnat.bearblog.dev/the-rss-world-of-youtube/ Read more.

Recent beer check-ins

Pesky P. is drinking a San Miguel Premium Especial (5.4%) by Grupo Mahou-San Miguel View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a Cosmic Blond by Uiltje Brewing Company View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking an IPA by Honest Greens at Honest Greens View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a NIJPA by Brouwerij 't IJ View check-in.

Recent Anilist activity

Pesky watched episode 3 of Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 4 of Golden Kamuy: Saishuushou. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 2 of Sousou no Frieren 2nd Season. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 3 of Golden Kamuy: Saishuushou. View activity.