Hugo van den Berg

Self-hosting update: the backup ran. The restore drill did not. Guess what I am doing tonight.

Update 59: Bird count at Almere Haven this morning: more geese than people, which is the correct ratio.

I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [15.6]

Update 102: Unpopular take: the coffee at Amersfoort is better than half the specialty bars in the city.

The herons union would like to add: more fish, fewer drones. [40.7]

The herons union would like to add: more fish, fewer drones. [15.7]

Does anyone have a spare cargo bike in Bussum on Sunday? Moving plants, not pianos. Mostly.

Update 60: Hot take: if your .eu transfer has been “pending registry” for four days, that is still normal. Annoyingly.

PHP will PHP. The workaround is ugly and it works. [40.8]

Update 103: Anyone else stuck behind a disrupted sprinter near Scheveningen? Bring a book.

Read the DMA FAQ so you do not have to. Gatekeepers, gatekeeping, gated communities of PDFs.

Update 61: Brought the dogs to Rotterdam Blaak. One of them made a new enemy. The enemy was a leaf.

This is the bit I keep forwarding to people who think DNS is “just a lookup”. (61)

Sunset over Almere Haven made the whole commute feel like a documentary with a better soundtrack.

Update 62: CloudFest talk notes: observability without a bill shock strategy is just expensive folklore.

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

Update 106: The new bike path lighting toward Pampus is actually good. Whoever signed that off: thank you.

Officially: we are looking into it. Unofficially: yes. [94.6]

I can bring a folding table if we are still on for Harderwijk. [80.1]

Market at Rotterdam Blaak had the first decent peaches. I bought too many. I regret nothing.