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Photo blogging 2026-10-11 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 Read more.

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.

2026-10-29 If only JSON supported inline comments I wouldn't mind using it for config files for all my personal scripts. It's just so much easier to read and write (to my brain) than YAML. Read more.

2026-10-29 @hanktank61 Purmerend is a lovely city. I was only there once to pick up a model train set but took the opportunity to walk around. Read more.

2026-10-29 @frehi Mostly yes, the part where the accident occurred was LZB. I think El Pais has a good summary of what safety systems are in use for that segment of the line. It will be interesting to read the investigation reports on what exactly went wrong and how. https://english.elpais.com/spain/2026-10-28/what-is-the-lzb-signaling-system- one-of-the-key-factors-in-the-fatal-train-accident-in-spain.html Read more.

2026-10-27 @0xabad1dea Was this the same tram line that had to have a special power supply because it interfered with the university's research equipment? https://www.railwaygazette.com/netherlands/2026/10/06/delft-tramway-extension- to-university-opens-with-custom-power-feed-to-minimise-electromagnetic- interference/ Read more.

2026-10-27 It's increasingly difficult to avoid interacting with chatbots, LLM-generated content and other unsightly "innovations" day to day. If you're developing a product and need to tick a box to include gen-AI at least let me disable it, or better yet make it opt-in. I filed a bug report for a SaaS application today that forces a chatbot on search. Probably won't be my last bug report this week. Read more.

2026-10-24 Another week, another photo. I've been enjoying picking a photo I take each week and swapping it out here. https://pesky.moe/photo/ Read more.

2026-10-23 Just found out about Record-Relay through @robb . > This is an experiment testing how long of an unbroken chain we can build > using nothing but global DNS infrastructure. I'm the current "baton holder"! :blobfoxnomcat: https://recordrelay.net/ Read more.

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2026-10-12 peskypotato watched episode 5 - 6 of Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku View activity.

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2026-08-24 peskypotato plans to watch Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku View activity.

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