Recent blog posts
Stabilise video using FFmpeg
FFmpeg has the ability to stabilise a video using a 2 pass approach. I first
learnt about this from a post on Paul Irish's website and later also shared
the link. Their post also includes a useful single command to stabilise and
create a comparison video to see the before and after. The purpose of my entry
is to add some references and commands that I've found useful mostly for me to
look up later
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Departure timers to improve level crossing safety
The Netherlands has a fairly large and busy railway network with close to 400
passenger stations on 3000 line kilometres and with its largest operator, NS,
transporting over 1 million passengers per day. Where rail meets road there
are over 2000 crossings throughout the country. That comes out to a crossing
every 1.3 kilometres on average.1
Given the high density of rail traffic and the number of
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Delays on the drielandentrein
After years of delays, the drielandentrein finally started operating at the
end of June this year. However, despite all the planning and waiting, the
train connection between the three countries is not without its hiccups.
Earlier this week, Rover, the public transport traveller's association,
expressed their disappointment with the reliability of the drielandentrein.
For starters, Arriva still ha
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Working with dates in Athena and Grafana
Grafana has the ability to use Amazon Athena as a data source allowing you to
run SQL queries to visualize data. The Athena table data types are
conveniently inherited in Grafana to be used in dashboard panels. If the data
types in Athena are not exactly how you'd like them in Grafana you can still
apply conversion functions.
In this case the timestamp column in Athena is formatted as a string, a
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Recent toots
@donkersgoed Seeing Monitron go is a tough one :/
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@duky Unassigned seating in an open floor office.
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Agile seating was a mistake.
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An interesting side effect since the train conductor is no longer in charge of
beginning the departure procedure if they move between trainsets at a stop
they must notify the driver so as to not be left behind. This is seen at 16:18
in the video.
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Machinist Stefan uploaded a new video of the 'Airport Sprinter' equipped with
cameras and software that enable the driver to close the doors before the
train departure. A task that is typically done by the train conductor. It's
been in testing since 2022 using the SNG rolling stock and according to the
video saves 10-15 seconds on average per stop.
I wonder if the time savings will finally be wor
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Recent beer check-ins
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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Pesky P. is drinking a Peach Ice Tea Table Sour by Vault City Brewing
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Pesky P. is drinking a Non De Jus! by 100 Watt Brewery
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Recent Anilist activity
Pesky completed Rising Impact
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Pesky watched episode 19 - 25 of Rising Impact.
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Pesky watched episode 16 - 18 of Rising Impact.
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Pesky watched episode 14 - 15 of Rising Impact.
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