Bente van der Meer

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

Update 102: Unpopular take: the coffee at Muiderberg is better than half the specialty bars in the city.

The herons union would like to add: more fish, fewer drones. [40.7]

This should be in the house rules. People keep rediscovering it. [119.1]

PHP will PHP. The workaround is ugly and it works. [40.8]

I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [94.2]

Read the DMA FAQ so you do not have to. Gatekeepers, gatekeeping, gated communities of PDFs.

The herons union would like to add: more fish, fewer drones. [94.3]

This is the bit I keep forwarding to people who think DNS is “just a lookup”. (61)

PHP will PHP. The workaround is ugly and it works. [119.4]

PHP will PHP. The workaround is ugly and it works. [94.4]

Come to Bussum tomorrow, we can debug it on a bench. [119.5]

Come to Tussen de Vaarten tomorrow, we can debug it on a bench. [94.5]

If you still roll a 1024-bit KSK in 2026 I need you to sit down for a minute.

Officially: we are looking into it. Unofficially: yes. [119.6]

Update 106: The new bike path lighting toward Lelystad is actually good. Whoever signed that off: thank you.

Officially: we are looking into it. Unofficially: yes. [94.6]

I can bring a folding table if we are still on for Almere Centrum. [105.1]

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

Update 108: PHP 8.4 property hooks just saved me a DTO class I did not want to maintain. Quiet win.