Owen de Groot

Update 103: Anyone else stuck behind a disrupted sprinter near Rotterdam Blaak? 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 Almere Haven. 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 Bussum 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 63: GDPR question I am tired of: no, a legitimate interest assessment is not a vibe.

I can bring a folding table if we are still on for Groningen. [105.1]

This is the actual failure mode. Pending with no expiry. [130.2]

Market at Almere Haven had the first decent peaches. I bought too many. I regret nothing.

Update 64: Espresso in Amersfoort tasted like someone finally cleaned the group head. Small civic miracle.

I can bring a folding table if we are still on for Naarden. [55.1]

This is the actual failure mode. Pending with no expiry. [55.2]

Office rumor mill says the staging TLS cert expires on a Friday. Of course it does.

Update 108: PHP 8.4 property hooks just saved me a DTO class I did not want to maintain. Quiet win.

Ha. I said the same thing last week and got three contradictory answers. [55.3]

Tried the long way around Rotterdam Blaak on the bike. Extra twelve minutes, minus two close calls.

Yes. Ask for the auth code status, not a human SLA. [55.4]

Update 109: Bird count at Bussum this morning: more geese than people, which is the correct ratio.