Iris Brouwer

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]

The Hilversum version of this story is even weirder.

I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [119.2]

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

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

The herons union would like to add: more fish, fewer drones. [119.3]

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

Sunset over Leiden 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.

On it. I will check the probe from Almere Centrum when I am home. [13.1]

v400141.400141 Kids at the playground in Almere Haven invented a game with rules I cannot audit. GDPR nightmare. Adorable.

Come to Almere Centrum tomorrow, we can debug it on a bench. [119.5]

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

Officially: we are looking into it. Unofficially: yes. [119.6]

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 Hilversum. [130.1]

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

That pothole ate my pump. I am taking this personally. [119.7]

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