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Nostalgia and nowstalgia 05.05.2026 It's always fun looking back at things I've done in the past, especially if they're neatly logged or visualised in some way. Robert Birming commented on the same feeling he gets when looking at his blog calendar, or pins on a map based on completed house inspections he's done. Reading his post inspired me to finally write this one. The front page of my website has the recent activity from some of Read more.

The Travelski Night Express from Amsterdam to the French Alps 04.05.2026 Travelski, a subsidiary of Compagnie des Alpes, will begin offering a night train from Amsterdam, through Brussels, to the French Alps starting this December. This is in addition to the service launched last ski season in December 2025 that went from Paris - Gare de Lyon to Moûtiers, Aime and Bourg- Saint-Maurice. Starting Friday, 18 December 2026, Travelski will run a train from Amsterdam Centra Read more.

Querying S3 Tables with DuckDB 01.04.2026 DuckDB has the ability to query S3 Tables, when this was first announced in beta I was unable to get it to work and subsequently gave up. A little over a year later I decided to give this a go again and now that it's generally available, to my surprise, it just works. There's still guides on how to set this up with nightly releases and other feature flags but nothing that shows the generally avail Read more.

Working with dates in SQLite and Grafana 10.03.2026 SQLite can be used as a data source for Grafana using a community plugin maintained by fr-ser. Out of the box the plugin has support for time formatted columns, which work on visuals like time series, and time range macros, which use the dashboards datetime picker. This post has a few of my notes. Unix epoch numbers (e.g. `1773149763`) and RFC3339 strings (e.g. `2026-03-10T15:36:03+01:00`) work n Read more.

04.05.2026 I think it's silly to charge more for a seat that's identical to standard economy, just because it's "directly behind the Economy Comfort zone". I had an issue with booking and called KLM for assistance, for my trouble they "upgraded" my seat to the front standard seat for no extra charge. I can confirm, it's just a regular economy seat. Read more.

19.03.2026 @niccokunzmann Seeing the thought and care put into documentation was amazing. I'm really happy to have contributed towards that with you and Steve. Thank you! Read more.

18.03.2026 @maartje @smveerman Missing curtains for reference and a lack of the overhead rack. The picture was posted by the CEO on LinkedIn. Read more.

04.03.2026 Recently, I switched from a Windows laptop with WSL to Mac at work and I'm slowly realizing the things I took for granted. To start, the `watch` command. Luckily brew has a package that helps. https://blog.x-way.org/Mac/2024/11/02/Missing-watch-command-on-macOS.html Read more.

27.02.2026 @niccokunzmann Absolutely! I'd definitely like to give it a go. I just took a look at version 7.x and like the move towards guiding the user towards creating valid calendars with the new class methods. Where in the documentation would the tutorials live? Would it be a precursor to the How-to's and Reference Guide? If you already have it described in an issue I'd be happy to take a look. Time to Read more.

24.11.2025 Pesky P. is drinking a San Miguel Premium Especial (5.4%) by Grupo Mahou-San Miguel View check-in.

05.10.2025 Pesky P. is drinking a Cosmic Blond by Uiltje Brewing Company View check-in.

28.09.2025 Pesky P. is drinking an IPA by Honest Greens at Honest Greens View check-in.

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05.05.2026 Pesky watched episode 8 - 9 of Enen no Shouboutai: San no Shou Part 2. View activity.

04.05.2026 Pesky watched episode 3 - 7 of Enen no Shouboutai: San no Shou Part 2. View activity.

03.05.2026 Pesky watched episode 1 - 2 of Enen no Shouboutai: San no Shou Part 2. View activity.

03.05.2026 Pesky completed Enen no Shouboutai: San no Shou View activity.