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Just found out that the ASML Marathon Eindhoven will no longer provide a secure area where you can hand over your bag and valuables, but require you to rent a locker for €6,50. These are the extra costs for travelling by public transport I guess, which apparently is not promoted...



Sometimes I have posts on my mind for so long that I need to do a search to check I haven't posted it already... Sorry for duplicates if the search failed. (Meta if this is the duplicate)


YouTube thumbnail: How to do "x"
YouTube title: Tips to learn doing "x"
Actual YouTube video: Subscribe to my course to learn doing "x"
Course, presumably: Buy my book


When people say "What is the worst thing that can happen?" to motivate you to do something, it is just an utter failure of the imagination on their part. And shows the cushy life they lived so far.


I've had this video about procrastination in my watchlist for ages... 😉

The way she describes procrastination is so spot on.
youtu.be/rxm8vlkLEHM?si=UmtTGK…

(Contains in-video sponsorship)



This is one people here will like I think: find out if you will survive the zombie apocalypse in 28 questions, by Crystal: youtu.be/uvUF6f4gey4?si=GQoNXj…

I'm in the unlikely to survive group... :-(



In the Netherlands there's one point where two highways cross with traffic lights. To solve this, they are "pushing a tunnel for the A59 underneath the A27", within 100 hours.

I mean, what?

Apparently they dig a gap in one highway, drive the concrete tunnel in that gap, and restore the highway over that new tunnel...

All these steps happen in one weekend, this weekend. This is a time lapse of the tunnel being driven into that gap, which has just finished. It's quite amazing.

player.vimeo.com/video/1110343…

in reply to Gidi Kroon

I'm not fully understanding the overall plan and the website is unclear about it, but here's more info and a live blog:

a27houtenhooipolder.nl/project…


Dit weekend kom je op de #A27 in beide richtingen afsluitingen tegen bij knp. Hooipolder. We voeren namelijk werkzaamheden uit, waarbij we in 100 uur een onderdoorgang in de A27 schuiven. Benieuwd hoe dat eruitziet? Volg het via een livestream en liveblog: a27houtenhooipolder.nl/project…


I've disabled the Activitypub feature of my WordPress while I investigate the regular server overloads over the past few days. I'm not really suspecting these plugins to be the problem, but the only increased traffic I can see is of Activitypub. Even though that is still only a few requests per minute, a pittance in normal server terms, it may be too much for a simple WordPress on the smallest shared hosting.

These Activitypub requests are always coming from the same Mastodon server, and don't seem to relate to normal interactions with my posts. So blocking that server on the firewall is another thing I can try.

There are of course a lot of requests from search index and ai bots, and blocking these is also a next step, but that doesn't seem increased lately.

in reply to Gidi Kroon

Cleared cache and reconfigured the caching, also blocked some crawler IPs that did more storming than crawling. With that, even after reenabling the Activitypub features, it hasn't had a new outage.


The trailer for part 2 of season 2 of Wednesday is out: youtu.be/ueCc-AYUMRs?si=dsZQ9k…
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix


Wednesday is trapped in a Netflix ad... instagram.com/reel/DMeAOcryu5D…

Very funny. Out next week.

#JennaOrtega #WednesdayNetflix #Wednesday #EmmaMyers


in reply to Gidi Kroon

I like photographing weird trees... It is not as straight as the others...

Canon EOS R10, RF-S 10-18mm.

#Tree #Park



Roxy Furman updated her reel for 2025 so now you can get all the brilliant wildlife clips she makes in a single package:

youtu.be/2K6y_KKfYQA?si=usYYOS…

#RoxyFurman #RoxyTheZoologist #Wildlife



I know nothing about bird brands, so me identifying the species based on a five seconds google search is always a bit scary.


This finch couple was sitting high up in a tree where normally much bigger birds are sitting.

Canon EOS R10 @ 1/500s ISO 800, RF 100-400 F5.6-8 IS USM @ 400mm F9, cropped.

#photography #bird #finch



One of the few weekends that we can see F1 live. It's on Belgian tv. They're not actually racing due to rain, but we can live see them waiting.
#F1
#f1



I was checking what a 800mm focal length looked like, by cropping from 400mm, for reasons. I seem to have caught suspicious looks from the local bird-life, they think it is all rather weird.

That Jay on the ground in the second photo apparently only shows up when I have a 200mm lens with a 2x extender on my camera. That's not ideal. One day I will get a better photo...


  • Both photos: Canon EOS R10, 400mm.
  • Pigeon: Canon RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 1/200s, F9, ISO 250
  • Jay: Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L USM II + EF 2x Extender III, 1/640, F5.6, ISO 3200


#Photography #CanonEOSR10 #Birds

in reply to Gidi Kroon

For related reasons I was checking whether F11 would be useable on a cloudy day. This turned some heads.


  • Canon EOS R10, RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM, 400mm, 1/125 s, F11, ISO 250
in reply to Gidi Kroon

I started to put some photos on Flickr again. E.g. here is that Jay (or similar) showing up a few days ago when I had the same lens combination which resulted in so much chromatic aberration I had to turn the photo to black and white.

Image/PhotoJay in tree (b&w) by Gidi Kroon, on Flickr



Wednesday season two will start in just under two weeks. I guess the Netflix bosses have seen it already and where impressed, since they renewed it for season three before release.

#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix



Crystal doing one of her Oddly Specific flowcharts, about how to get to 100k subscribers on YouTube, and as always it's a ride.

youtu.be/wduIVzKVcV4

#OddlySpecificCrystal



Korean food tuber Doobydobap recreates anime dishes, and surprisingly it's mostly a success. Apparently the on screen recipes are detailed enough to follow. It helps that she knows what she's doing.

youtu.be/pFxo7Q8-1wE?si=yZEr_V…

#Doobydobap #Food



What's the point of ordering something online if DHL is going to randomly put it in someone else's mailbox? Luckily there are enough honest people in the world.


Moving inside again to escape the mosquitos.

I wish the nice cool temperatures of the early evening when you'd like to sit on your balcony, aren't also prime mosquito time.



This sounds like a really interesting programme/series coming up on the BBC, about new discoveries around human origins:

youtu.be/73NQuGXaM_w?si=ceBuXm…

Ella Al-Shamahi is also one of the best science presenters you can get.

#Human #EllaAlShamahi



I'm back from walking around and taking pictures in Genneper Parken, which is a large park inside Eindhoven that I had somehow never been too, despite having previously lived in Eindhoven for six years and now in the region for several decades.

From the information I read I had imagined it to be a park like Central Park, or St James Park, where people gather on a sunny day. I had brought sandwiches and a towel to sit on. Yet it's more a nature area with bicycle and footpaths, and lot of bridges over the two rivers that meander through it. So more a nice area to go through rather than to gather. I did a lot of walking and I'm now very tired.

But dinner to eat and photos to sort through. The above is my icecream break at the water mill.



Very interesting video about how crushes by someone who is autistic are even more intense.

youtu.be/LJYLN-bOFv0