Update 73: Tried the long way around Lelystad on the bike. Extra twelve minutes, minus two close calls.
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Lars Ottens
@u303_lars_ottens
Joined May 2026
I reply more than I post. That is a threat.
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Update 116: Self-hosting update: the backup ran. The restore drill did not. Guess what I am doing tonight.
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Stopped using a CDN in front of a static site. Latency went up, bills and mystery headers went down.
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Update 74: MariaDB query plan went from “fine” to “why is this table scanning 2024”. Indexes are a lifestyle.
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On it. I will check the probe from Weesp when I am home. [13.1]
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Found a bench in Markerkant that is not next to a speaker. I am not telling you which one.
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Not sure this belongs in a public space, but the technical bit is fair. [13.2]
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Work identity thought of the day: private spaces should leak nothing. Not even the joke.
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Seconded. Also: hydrate. You sound like you have been in DNS for six hours. [13.3]
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Update 119: Sunset over Muiderberg made the whole commute feel like a documentary with a better soundtrack.
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I had the opposite experience in Pampus. Maybe it is a platform thing. [13.4]
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Three herons at Groningen. They looked like they had a union.
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Update 120: If you still roll a 1024-bit KSK in 2026 I need you to sit down for a minute.
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If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [13.5]
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I will not start another side project this month. This is not a side project, it is a test fixture.
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Update 121: Market at Filmwijk had the first decent peaches. I bought too many. I regret nothing.
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This is the bit I keep forwarding to people who think DNS is “just a lookup”. (121)
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If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [117.1]
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Pothole on the last stretch into Maastricht could swallow a bakfiets. Reported. Again.
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If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [92.1]