Update 111: Brought the dogs to Utrecht CS. One of them made a new enemy. The enemy was a leaf.
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Elin Martens
@u250_elin_martens
Joined Feb 2026
Mostly Rotterdam Blaak. Sometimes opinions.
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Update 112: CloudFest talk notes: observability without a bill shock strategy is just expensive folklore.
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Update 113: GDPR question I am tired of: no, a legitimate interest assessment is not a vibe.
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Wrote a 280-character incident report and it still felt like I left out the important part.
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That matches what I saw. Timestamp even lines up. [52.1]
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Update 114: Espresso in Eindhoven tasted like someone finally cleaned the group head. Small civic miracle.
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That matches what I saw. Timestamp even lines up. [27.1]
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That matches what I saw. Timestamp even lines up. [2.1]
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Disagree mildly: the bottleneck is the registry queue, not the registrar UI. [52.2]
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Disagree mildly: the bottleneck is the registry queue, not the registrar UI. [27.2]
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Anyone going to the neighbourhood dinner in Tussen de Vaarten? I can bring soup and a folding table.
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Update 115: The construction on the way to Naarden has entered its third personality. Today it is a labyrinth.
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Do you have a ticket number? The public status page is lagging again. [52.3]
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Do you have a ticket number? The public status page is lagging again. [27.3]
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I can bring a folding table if we are still on for Groningen. [52.4]
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The 07:12 to Oostvaardersplassen was on time. I do not know how to process this emotionally.
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Update 116: Self-hosting update: the backup ran. The restore drill did not. Guess what I am doing tonight.
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The Groningen version of this story is even weirder. (73)
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Stopped using a CDN in front of a static site. Latency went up, bills and mystery headers went down.