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Desire paths and shadow IT 2026-10-07 Any substantial use of a system or solution will usually result in some sort of workarounds where users will try to get what they want if it's not officially or adequately supported. Chris Siebenmann documented an example of users running heavy jobs on the university's login server, something it's not designed to do. This undesired usage was described by him as a _desire path_ : > In a university Read more.

Barcelona to Madrid: Flights and High Speed Rail 2026-10-02 In just a few short days, on 5 October 2026, Vueling flight number VY1010 will be on its way to Madrid after taking off from Barcelona at 07:25. The roughly 485 kilometres between the two Spanish cities takes 1 hour and 25 minutes in flight time and has enough demand that Vueling decided to restart this service after having given up this route in March 2025. When this restart was announced over th Read more.

Access S3 Tables in QuickSight without Athena 2026-09-29 Over the summer AWS announced S3 Tables buckets were natively supported by QuickSight (yes, I'm still calling it QuickSight, not Quick). This meant simplifying a process I talked about earlier on using Athena as a middle-layer between QuickSight and S3 Tables when creating data sources. I just got the time to give it a go, and I think the AWS docs could use some clarifying. The S3 docs, Quick docs Read more.

Jardines de la Rambla de Sants 2026-09-26 The _Jardines de la Rambla de Sants_ starts at Plaça de Sants and goes roughly 760 metres south-west over the Mercat Nou and Santa Eulàlia metro stations. Unlike most metro stations here in Barcelona, Mercat Nou and Santa Eulàlia aren't undergoround which means the park is actually elevated. Beside the metro line is also the Rodalies train tracks carrying commuters on the R1, R2, R3, R4, R13, R15 Read more.

2026-10-10 This week in my railspotting adventures, two Alstom Civia (serie 465) trains on the Pont de la Vanguard. Under this rail bridge is the "La pell de L’Hospitalet" mural. This section of track sites between the Bellvitge Gornal and Barcelona - Sants stations. Read more.

2026-10-04 Tomorrow Vueling will once again resume its Barcelona-Madrid service after having stopped in early 2025. I was curious how many flights go between the two cities, which are roughly 485km apart. On a regular Monday, there are 18 flights going from Barcelona to Madrid, including the two new Vueling services. The capacity is 3158 per day in one direction. In contrast, there are 45 trains from Barcel Read more.

2026-10-03 The plan this morning was to see if I can take pictures of the metro approaching from Rocafort to Espanya. With the curve of the track and the short distance between the stations, at specific points at the platform you can see Rocafort from Espnaya. The L1 metro had other plans. Read more.

2026-09-26 In the same theme I've written about train spotting at Jardines de la Rambla de Sants. This is my new favourite location, lots of trains a nice park and easy to get to with the metro. https://blog.pesky.moe/posts/2026-09-26-jardines-sants/ Read more.

2026-09-21 @aproposnix I cannot unsee it now. Read more.

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