Recent blog posts
Amsterdam to the Rhein Ruhr area with the ICNG
The Dutch Railway, NS, has submitted a notice to the Dutch Authority for
Consumers and Markets (ACM) of its intention to run 6 daily services in both
directions from Amsterdam Centraal to the Rhine-Ruhr region. This will be done
in collaboration with Deutsche Bahn, DB, starting in the 2028 timetable.
Since the notice on 10 June 2026, a few articles have come out, and while I
wanted to share this
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Thoughts on disclosing AI usage through commits
In general, I'm in favour of disclosing AI-generated or assisted code in
commits. In recent months, I've been seeing more and more of them across
various open source repositories, and it's a good indicator _to me_ on how the
project was developed and is being maintained. I want to actively avoid using,
relying on, or contributing to repositories that are AI-generated or heavily
AI-assisted.
Discl
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Veghel's buses and the disused rail
This weekend, Stichting Industrieel Erfgoed Meierijstad (SIEMei) will
inaugrate the work done at the marshalling yard in Veghel, connecting the
tracks that were once part of the Duits Lijntje (German line) running from
Boxtel to Wesel. Over the years the foundation has acquired various equipment
including steel carriages used in the 20th century, the Zuid-Willemsvart
lifting rail bridge that was d
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Using S3 Files and Lambda to read to SQLite databases from S3
Given a Lambda function's ephemeral nature, when working with SQLite databases
or other files, you would typically be baking it into the functions deployment
package, reading the database from S3 using external libraries, or attaching
the function to an Amazon EFS file system.
The first approach would mean any changes made during the runtime of the
function would be lost, given that the execution
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Recent toots
@rubenerd Congratulations Ruben!
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@ibboard I haven't seen them yet, but will remember steer clear. Thank you.
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Peanut m&m's are the best m&m's. It can only be marginally improved by mixing
salted peanuts into the bag of peanut m&m's.
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Note to self: When linking to documentation from my notes, always include the
essential details in the note itself. The docs I linked to have now replaced
its content with AI developer workspace crap instead of the CLI commands.
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For the fist time ever, I've encountered a yes-reply@ email instead of
a no-reply one. Makes me wonder why they didn't just sent it from the team or
employee email account to begin with.
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@smveerman This and the Tommie en Tess liveries are my favourite.
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@poni This is like the equivalent of, "if it fits, i sits. "
:blobfoxbox:
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Recent beer check-ins
Pesky P. is drinking a San Miguel Premium Especial by Grupo 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
Pesky watched episode 9 - 10 of Isekai Shokudou 2.
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Pesky watched episode 5 - 8 of Isekai Shokudou 2.
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Pesky watched episode 1 - 4 of Isekai Shokudou 2.
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Pesky completed Isekai Shokudou
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