Nova Schouten

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 Utrecht CS 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 Dronten could swallow a bakfiets. Reported. Again.

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

Let me know if you still need a trailer. Mine is free after 10:00. [117.2]

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

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

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

Same energy as the 03:12 outage, but daylight this time. (37)

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

Roaster in Almere Centrum 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 Haarlem that is not next to a speaker. I am not telling you which one.