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Recent blog posts

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.
Finding duplicate objects in an S3 bucket I've been spending more time browsing StackOverflow recently and came across a question asking if it was possible to find duplicate objects within an S3 bucket. One way would be to hash the object prior to upload and store the value in a local or remote data store. If that's not possible or too much overhead, I figured I could use S3 Metadata and Athena to solve this, services I've covered on this Read more.
Goodbye ICE 3M! In 1994, Deutsche Bahn (DB) placed an order for 13 ICE 3M trains. These were the international variants of the 50 ICE 3 trains that would enter service in 1998. The "M" in 3M stands for _mehrsystemfähig_ , as the trainsets would be able to operate under different power supplies, initially for Germany and the Netherlands and later in Switzerland, Belgium, and France. To supplement DB's order, the D Read more.

Recent toots

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 1 - 2 of Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite. View activity.
Pesky completed [Oshi no Ko] 2nd Season View activity.
Pesky watched episode 11 - 12 of [Oshi no Ko] 2nd Season. View activity.
Pesky watched episode 9 - 10 of [Oshi no Ko] 2nd Season. View activity.