Isa Wolters

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 Tussen de Vaarten had the first decent peaches. I bought too many. I regret nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [92.4]

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 82: Found a bench in Oostvaardersplassen that is not next to a speaker. I am not telling you which one.

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

Update 83: Work identity thought of the day: private spaces should leak nothing. Not even the joke.

Update 126: Registrar panel just showed “pending” in four languages. Internationalisation of despair.

The API is not late. The specification is optimistic. There is a difference.