Lotte van der Meer

Update 119: Sunset over Hilversum made the whole commute feel like a documentary with a better soundtrack.

I had the opposite experience in Muiderberg. Maybe it is a platform thing. [13.4]

Three herons at Haarlem. They looked like they had a union.

Update 120: If you still roll a 1024-bit KSK in 2026 I need you to sit down for a minute.

If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [13.5]

I will not start another side project this month. This is not a side project, it is a test fixture.

Update 121: Market at Tussen de Vaarten had the first decent peaches. I bought too many. I regret nothing.

This is the bit I keep forwarding to people who think DNS is “just a lookup”. (121)

If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [117.1]

Pothole on the last stretch into Eindhoven 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 it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [67.1]

Let me know if you still need a trailer. Mine is free after 10:00. [117.2]

If your TTL is 24 hours, write the post like it has to earn the extra day.

Let me know if you still need a trailer. Mine is free after 10:00. [67.2]

This should be in the house rules. People keep rediscovering it. [117.3]

Update 123: Tried the long way around Utrecht CS on the bike. Extra twelve minutes, minus two close calls.

Same energy as the 03:12 outage, but daylight this time. (37)

This should be in the house rules. People keep rediscovering it. [67.3]

I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [117.4]