Recent blog posts
NS Dubbeldekker Nieuwe Generatie's design
On 5 March 2025, the Dutch Railways (NS) presented a model of their interior
for the Dubbeldekker Nieuwe Generatie (Double-Decker New Generation), or DDNG
for short. This train will be introduced in 2029 to replace the ageing DDZ and
provide additional capacity to intercity services.
I was going to write an overview of the DDNG and realised the train did not
have an English Wikipedia page yet, so
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Using S3 Metadata to list recently uploaded objects
Recently, Simon Willison shared how he uses S3 event notifications with Lambda
and DynamoDB to list recently uploaded files from an S3 bucket. The first
thought that occurred to me was to use S3 inventory which provides a daily
catalog of objects within a bucket queriable through Athena. The second idea
involved doing the same with the recently announced S3 metadata feature. Both
methods, I discov
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Identifying your AWS account when using multiple sessions
Last month, AWS announced multi-session support natively in the AWS console;
previously I'd relied on Firefox containers to separate logins between
accounts. This can be easily enabled from the account drop-down in the top
right of the console.
Multi-session support enabled and the usual account ID and IAM role is visible
in the top right.
Once enabled, this feature supports up to five sessions
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Save and load Docker images locally
While trying to test recovery of a service from a backup, as everyone should,
I discovered a container image was no longer available from Docker Hub
anymore. I was greeted by the following error:
ERROR: The image for the service you're trying to recreate has been removed. If you continue, volume data could be lost. Consider backing up your data before continuing.
Continue with t
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Recent toots
@alex Thank you! I've been trying to figure out how the tiles and coordinates
worked on tiny-world-map so I could modify the base map and add my own cities.
Gave up last summer after being unable to reverse the maths involved and my
DDG and Google searches didn't bring anything up.
Your code and link to the OSM Wiki will help me finally resume my project.
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Recent beer check-ins
Pesky P. is drinking a Stella Artois by Stella Artois at Stadhuis Leuven
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Pesky P. is drinking a La Goudale - Blonde à l'Ancienne by Brasserie Goudale - Les Brasseurs de Gayant
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Pesky P. is drinking an Ichnusa Non Filtrata by Ichnusa
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Pesky P. is drinking a Salted Maple Stout by Totem
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Recent Anilist activity
Pesky plans to watch Shuumatsu no Valkyrie III
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Pesky watched episode 1 of Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-hen.
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Pesky completed Kimetsu no Yaiba: Yuukaku-hen
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Pesky watched episode 9 - 10 of Kimetsu no Yaiba: Yuukaku-hen.
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