Recent blog posts
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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Better navigation on longer train routes
The Dutch Railway, NS, runs a few long train routes in the Netherlands and at
times these routes may seem a bit "illogical". An example of this in the July
2024 edition of the NS Panel news brief is the route from Dordrecht to Venlo
through Schiphol. This train starts in the south, travels north to Schiphol
and heads south again to Venlo. Even with all the major stops listed on the
platform depart
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Recent toots
@jimmylittle Anything in news if I don't get to within a few days, I can
discard if it doesn't interest me. These are press releases or time sensitive
posts that may be irrelevant.
For blogs, it's more subjective, there's some authors where I'll read
everything they post, and others where I choose which ones interest me.
For any feed that I realise I haven't read a post from consistently in a
wh
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@jimmylittle I don't see it the same way but I only receive about 50 new posts
each day on the 131 feeds I subscribe to. They're in two categories; news and
blogs.
I read based on what's most interesting to me at that time.
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@partim Wouldn't mind just eating ice cream myself given how hot it is.
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@verbeeld That's neat! I've seen labels that read "For those who prefer
toilets" and "For those who prefer urinals" or something to that effect at a
bar/restaurant in Utrecht. This is even better with less text to read and the
symbols go beyond any language.
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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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