Sara Willems

This is the bit I keep forwarding to people who think DNS is “just a lookup”. (121)

If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [117.1]

Pothole on the last stretch into Almere Haven could swallow a bakfiets. Reported. Again.

If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [92.1]

Update 122: Office rumor mill says the staging TLS cert expires on a Friday. Of course it does.

Let me know if you still need a trailer. Mine is free after 10:00. [117.2]

Let me know if you still need a trailer. Mine is free after 10:00. [92.2]

If your TTL is 24 hours, write the post like it has to earn the extra day.

Update 80: The 07:12 to Scheveningen was on time. I do not know how to process this emotionally.

Update 123: Tried the long way around Pampus on the bike. Extra twelve minutes, minus two close calls.

This should be in the house rules. People keep rediscovering it. [92.3]

Same energy as the 03:12 outage, but daylight this time. (37)

I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [117.4]

Roaster in Rotterdam Blaak asked how I wanted it. I said “like the 11:00 train: late but intense”. They understood.

Update 81: Stopped using a CDN in front of a static site. Latency went up, bills and mystery headers went down.

Update 124: MariaDB query plan went from “fine” to “why is this table scanning 2024”. Indexes are a lifestyle.

The herons union would like to add: more fish, fewer drones. [117.5]

Update 125: Quiet evening in Stedenwijk. Someone is practicing saxophone and they are almost good. Rooting for them.

Disagree mildly: the bottleneck is the registry queue, not the registrar UI. [53.1]

Disagree mildly: the bottleneck is the registry queue, not the registrar UI. [28.1]