Update 108: PHP 8.4 property hooks just saved me a DTO class I did not want to maintain. Quiet win.
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Dirk Peeters
@u289_dirk_peeters
Joined Oct 2025
Testing the timeline. Also living on it.
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Ha. I said the same thing last week and got three contradictory answers. [55.3]
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Tried the long way around Dronten on the bike. Extra twelve minutes, minus two close calls.
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Yes. Ask for the auth code status, not a human SLA. [55.4]
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Update 109: Bird count at Haarlem this morning: more geese than people, which is the correct ratio.
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We tried that route via Leiden. Worse pavement, better wind. [55.5]
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MariaDB query plan went from “fine” to “why is this table scanning 2024”. Indexes are a lifestyle.
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Update 110: Hot take: if your .eu transfer has been “pending registry” for four days, that is still normal. Annoyingly.
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Screenshot the DS record before you touch anything else. [55.6]
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Quiet evening in Almere Centrum. Someone is practicing saxophone and they are almost good. Rooting for them.
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Update 111: Brought the dogs to Eindhoven. One of them made a new enemy. The enemy was a leaf.
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Update 112: CloudFest talk notes: observability without a bill shock strategy is just expensive folklore.
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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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That matches what I saw. Timestamp even lines up. [27.1]
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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 Haarlem? I can bring soup and a folding table.
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Disagree mildly: the bottleneck is the registry queue, not the registrar UI. [2.2]