Recent blog posts
Photo blogging
Capturing photos and potentially sharing them has been on my mind lately.
Coincidentally, I discovered the #the100pics challenge through Adam Duglas and
was tempted to give it a go. It involves taking and posting 100 photos in a
year on your blog. The rules allow you to share already existing photos, but
if I were to do it, I'd like to stick to new photos and have some descriptive
captions to go a
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Desire paths and shadow IT
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
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Barcelona to Madrid: Flights and High Speed Rail
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
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Access S3 Tables in QuickSight without Athena
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
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Recent toots
@antrelescent hah, first thing I ran on all prod servers this morning. I was
sure we're safe, but couldn't be too sure.
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I spent a good chunk of today working on creating, updating and validating
internal developer documentation. It was quite satisfying. I'm grateful to be
able to spend time on these tasks. Although, it is a bit discouraging knowing
that only a handful of people will ever read it and it'll mostly be used as
input for LLMs.
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@rubenerd I had the same feeling two weeks, it was very uncomfortable, and I
was only on my first coffee. I can't think of another time I felt that way. So
when I saw @GyrosGeier 's I had to repost.
Hopefully you've recovered!
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@gspeed0689 I've done this course, it's pretty interesting.
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Recent beer check-ins
Pesky P. is drinking a San Miguel Premium Especial by Mahou-San Miguel
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Pesky P. is drinking a Cosmic Blond by Uiltje Brewing Company
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Pesky P. is drinking an IPA by Honest Greens at Honest Greens
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Pesky P. is drinking a NIJPA by Brouwerij 't IJ
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Recent Anilist activity
peskypotato watched episode 5 - 6 of Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku
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peskypotato watched episode 1 - 4 of Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku
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peskypotato plans to watch Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku
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peskypotato completed MARRIAGETOXIN
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peskypotato watched episode 5 - 12 of MARRIAGETOXIN
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