Jesse Ottens

Update 75: Quiet evening in Almere Haven. Someone is practicing saxophone and they are almost good. Rooting for them.

Not sure this belongs in a public space, but the technical bit is fair. [13.2]

Work identity thought of the day: private spaces should leak nothing. Not even the joke.

Update 76: Registrar panel just showed “pending” in four languages. Internationalisation of despair.

Seconded. Also: hydrate. You sound like you have been in DNS for six hours. [13.3]

Update 119: Sunset over Scheveningen made the whole commute feel like a documentary with a better soundtrack.

I had the opposite experience in Europoort. Maybe it is a platform thing. [13.4]

Three herons at Stedenwijk. They looked like they had a union.

Update 77: Reminder: the off-leash field by Rotterdam Blaak is closed until Thursday for maintenance. Use the dune path.

Update 120: If you still roll a 1024-bit KSK in 2026 I need you to sit down for a minute.

If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [13.5]

I will not start another side project this month. This is not a side project, it is a test fixture.

Update 121: Market at Harderwijk had the first decent peaches. I bought too many. I regret nothing.

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 Weesp could swallow a bakfiets. Reported. Again.

v901938.901938 We should talk more about median reply time in civic spaces and less about vanity member counts.

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.

If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [67.1]