Sara Maas

This is the actual failure mode. Pending with no expiry. [80.2]

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

Ha. I said the same thing last week and got three contradictory answers. [80.3]

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

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

Update 109: Bird count at Tussen de Vaarten this morning: more geese than people, which is the correct ratio.

If you only read one kwet this week, make it the one I am quoting. (109)

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

Update 67: Does anyone have a spare cargo bike in Hilversum on Sunday? Moving plants, not pianos. Mostly.

Update 110: Hot take: if your .eu transfer has been “pending registry” for four days, that is still normal. Annoyingly.

Quiet evening in Naarden. Someone is practicing saxophone and they are almost good. Rooting for them.

Update 68: Read the DMA FAQ so you do not have to. Gatekeepers, gatekeeping, gated communities of PDFs.

Update 111: Brought the dogs to Utrecht CS. One of them made a new enemy. The enemy was a leaf.

That bakery closes at four now. Learned this the expensive way. [80.8]

I did not expect to agree this hard before coffee. (25)

Update 69: Sunset over Tussen de Vaarten made the whole commute feel like a documentary with a better soundtrack.

Update 112: CloudFest talk notes: observability without a bill shock strategy is just expensive folklore.

Update 70: If you still roll a 1024-bit KSK in 2026 I need you to sit down for a minute.

Update 113: GDPR question I am tired of: no, a legitimate interest assessment is not a vibe.

Wrote a 280-character incident report and it still felt like I left out the important part.