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GoVolta connections from Amsterdam to Berlin and Hamburg 01.01.2026 On 8 December 2025, GoVolta announced its intercity service from Amsterdam to Berlin and Hamburg, starting 19 March 2026 and 20 March 2026, respectively; at first, three times a week each, before increasing to daily in December. The service will alternate between Berlin and to Hamburg, with services to Berlin on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, and Hamburg on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Founded by Read more.

Finding AWS account names 19.12.2025 If you've worked with AWS thorugh the CLI, you'll be familair with `aws sts get-caller-identity`, essentially the `whoami` and `uname` of the cloud. While working with one or more accounts, getting the caller identity allows you to identify what role or user you are authenticated as and on which AWS account. There's only one thing that I miss while using the API call, a human-readable account name Read more.

NS Sprinters: Flirt Flex 22.11.2025 On 19 November 2025, the Dutch Railway, NS, announced the purchase of 36 new sprinter trains called the NS Flirt Flex. This will be the 5th generation of sprinter trains used by NS. The tender for these trains began in July 2022 with a request for information (RFI) from European manufacturers. Given sprinter services stop at all stations, the train needed to have quick acceleration and decelerati Read more.

Accessing AWS credentials from the console 15.10.2025 When working on an AWS account it's sometimes useful to have CLI access to run commands that automate repetitive tasks or to get to pesky resources that don't show up on the console. If you federate into an AWS account through Identity Center you could simply get the credentials through the portal when selecting an account. If you get console access through other means those credentials are not al Read more.

11.01.2026 Another update rolled out today, this one thanks to @martijnvdven. YT-RSS now also displays members only feed URLs for shorts, videos and live streams. Their notes goes into some more details on how the URLs are formed. https://zegnat.bearblog.dev/the-rss-world-of-youtube/ Read more.

10.01.2026 @82mhz That's great! I'm still surprised how much steady (genuine) traffic this tool gets. Read more.

10.01.2026 Looks like version 2.2.15 of miniflux supports fetching RSS feeds for a YouTube channel (all videos) as well as long-form videos, shorts or live streams separately. This is achieved by prefixing the Channel ID with UULF for videos, UUSH for shorts, and UULV for live stream. Now I can remove all the shorts from my subscription feed. This morning I worked this into YT-RSS so you can now get these i Read more.

02.01.2026 @cks @gordoooo_z @mayintoronto I've received a system that was developed and maintained by a sole owner, and now am in the position of passing it on to a different team. One of the first things I did was to collect all documentation scraps I could find and glue them in a larger high-level overview. This page/README now serves as a more complete high-level overview of the system that then links t Read more.

28.12.2025 @partim Can't forget the sprint at Venlo to make the connecting train. Read more.

25.12.2025 Merry Christmas! Read more.

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30.12.2025 Pesky completed Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi 2 View activity.

30.12.2025 Pesky watched episode 11 of Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi 2. View activity.

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