Levi de Boer

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

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

Update 84: Three herons at Hilversum. They looked like they had a union.

Kids at the playground in Naarden invented a game with rules I cannot audit. GDPR nightmare. Adorable.

Update 85: I will not start another side project this month. This is not a side project, it is a test fixture.

Yes. Ask for the auth code status, not a human SLA. [78.6]

Rotated logs, rotated keys, forgot to rotate myself. Sleep is also an SLO.

Update 86: Pothole on the last stretch into Tussen de Vaarten could swallow a bakfiets. Reported. Again.

Honest question: is the bus lane in Hilversum a bus lane or a suggestion? Asking for a bicycle.

Update 87: If your TTL is 24 hours, write the post like it has to earn the extra day.

Copied a production dump into staging and immediately found the row that should not exist. Classic.

Update 88: Roaster in Utrecht CS asked how I wanted it. I said “like the 11:00 train: late but intense”. They understood.

Wind at Tussen de Vaarten was personal today. My hair has filed a complaint.

Update 89: We should talk more about median reply time in civic spaces and less about vanity member counts.

This should be in the house rules. People keep rediscovering it. [39.6]

Neighbourhood tip: skip the main square at Hilversum on Saturday. Side streets are calmer and the bakery still has bread.

I miss when “the cloud” meant someone else’s computer and not twelve product names for the same invoice.

This should be in the house rules. People keep rediscovering it. [14.6]

Update 90: Packing for Europoort: rain jacket, spare inner tube, unreasonable optimism.

I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [39.7]