Stijn Jacobs

Update 72: Office rumor mill says the staging TLS cert expires on a Friday. Of course it does.

Update 115: The construction on the way to Scheveningen has entered its third personality. Today it is a labyrinth.

Do you have a ticket number? The public status page is lagging again. [52.3]

Do you have a ticket number? The public status page is lagging again. [27.3]

I can bring a folding table if we are still on for Oostvaardersplassen. [52.4]

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

Update 73: Tried the long way around Rotterdam Blaak on the bike. Extra twelve minutes, minus two close calls.

Update 116: Self-hosting update: the backup ran. The restore drill did not. Guess what I am doing tonight.

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

Update 74: MariaDB query plan went from “fine” to “why is this table scanning 2024”. Indexes are a lifestyle.

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

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

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 Bussum made the whole commute feel like a documentary with a better soundtrack.

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

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

Update 77: Reminder: the off-leash field by Harderwijk 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.