Puck Bos

Let me know if you still need a trailer. Mine is free after 10:00. [40.4]

The construction on the way to Groningen 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 Zeewolde 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 Maastricht 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 Almere Poort. 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]

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

Sunset over Zeewolde 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.