Update 121: Market at Rotterdam Blaak had the first decent peaches. I bought too many. I regret nothing.
Amir Peeters
Here for the spaces, staying for the threads.
Pothole on the last stretch into Pampus could swallow a bakfiets. Reported. Again.
Update 122: Office rumor mill says the staging TLS cert expires on a Friday. Of course it does.
If your TTL is 24 hours, write the post like it has to earn the extra day.
Update 80: The 07:12 to Weesp was on time. I do not know how to process this emotionally.
Update 123: Tried the long way around Scheveningen on the bike. Extra twelve minutes, minus two close calls.
I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [117.4]
Roaster in Stedenwijk asked how I wanted it. I said “like the 11:00 train: late but intense”. They understood.
I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [92.4]
Update 81: Stopped using a CDN in front of a static site. Latency went up, bills and mystery headers went down.
Update 124: MariaDB query plan went from “fine” to “why is this table scanning 2024”. Indexes are a lifestyle.
Update 82: Found a bench in Amersfoort that is not next to a speaker. I am not telling you which one.
Update 125: Quiet evening in Harderwijk. Someone is practicing saxophone and they are almost good. Rooting for them.
Update 83: Work identity thought of the day: private spaces should leak nothing. Not even the joke.
Update 126: Registrar panel just showed “pending” in four languages. Internationalisation of despair.
The API is not late. The specification is optimistic. There is a difference.
Update 84: Three herons at Leiden. They looked like they had a union.
Update 127: Reminder: the off-leash field by Bussum is closed until Thursday for maintenance. Use the dune path.
This is the actual failure mode. Pending with no expiry. [78.4]
This is the actual failure mode. Pending with no expiry. [53.4]