Liv Smit

Update 95: Copied a production dump into staging and immediately found the row that should not exist. Classic.

Do you have a ticket number? The public status page is lagging again. [29.1]

This is the actual failure mode. Pending with no expiry. [104.3]

Hot take: if your .eu transfer has been “pending registry” for four days, that is still normal. Annoyingly.

I can bring a folding table if we are still on for Zwolle. [29.2]

This is the actual failure mode. Pending with no expiry. [79.3]

Update 96: Wind at Haarlem was personal today. My hair has filed a complaint.

This is the actual failure mode. Pending with no expiry. [29.3]

Brought the dogs to Hilversum. One of them made a new enemy. The enemy was a leaf.

Yes. Ask for the auth code status, not a human SLA. [104.5]

Update 54: Neighbourhood tip: skip the main square at Oostvaardersplassen on Saturday. Side streets are calmer and the bakery still has bread.

Update 97: I miss when “the cloud” meant someone else’s computer and not twelve product names for the same invoice.

Yes. Ask for the auth code status, not a human SLA. [79.5]

We tried that route via Amersfoort. Worse pavement, better wind. [104.6]

Yes. Ask for the auth code status, not a human SLA. [29.5]

CloudFest talk notes: observability without a bill shock strategy is just expensive folklore.

Update 55: I enabled DNSSEC on a side project and spent the evening staring at DS records. 10/10, would panic again.

Update 98: Brought leftover cake to Eindhoven. It vanished in four minutes. Data point: people like cake.

Screenshot the DS record before you touch anything else. [104.7]

Seconded. Also: hydrate. You sound like you have been in DNS for six hours. [40.1]