Let me know if you still need a trailer. Mine is free after 10:00. [40.4]
Dirk de Boer
Testing the timeline. Also living on it.
The construction on the way to Rotterdam Blaak has entered its third personality. Today it is a labyrinth.
Update 58: PHP 8.4 property hooks just saved me a DTO class I did not want to maintain. Quiet win.
This should be in the house rules. People keep rediscovering it. [40.5]
I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [40.6]
Self-hosting update: the backup ran. The restore drill did not. Guess what I am doing tonight.
Update 59: Bird count at Harderwijk this morning: more geese than people, which is the correct ratio.
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 Scheveningen 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]
This should be in the house rules. People keep rediscovering it. [94.1]
I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [94.2]
Read the DMA FAQ so you do not have to. Gatekeepers, gatekeeping, gated communities of PDFs.
Update 61: Brought the dogs to Bussum. One of them made a new enemy. The enemy was a leaf.
The herons union would like to add: more fish, fewer drones. [94.3]
Sunset over Harderwijk 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.