Saar Bakker

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.

PHP will PHP. The workaround is ugly and it works. [94.4]

Come to Markerkant tomorrow, we can debug it on a bench. [94.5]

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.

Update 106: The new bike path lighting toward Rotterdam Blaak is actually good. Whoever signed that off: thank you.

Officially: we are looking into it. Unofficially: yes. [94.6]

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

I can bring a folding table if we are still on for Weesp. [80.1]

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

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

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

Update 107: Looking for a trailer this weekend near Amersfoort. Two wardrobes, one optimistic plan.

This is the actual failure mode. Pending with no expiry. [80.2]

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.

Ha. I said the same thing last week and got three contradictory answers. [80.3]

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