Liv Willems

Update 58: PHP 8.4 property hooks just saved me a DTO class I did not want to maintain. Quiet win.

Update 101: Just walked through Hilversum. The light at this hour is doing too much and I am here for it.

This should be in the house rules. People keep rediscovering it. [40.5]

I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [40.6]

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

Update 59: Bird count at Naarden this morning: more geese than people, which is the correct ratio.

Update 102: Unpopular take: the coffee at Almere Centrum 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]

Does anyone have a spare cargo bike in Europoort on Sunday? Moving plants, not pianos. Mostly.

Update 60: Hot take: if your .eu transfer has been “pending registry” for four days, that is still normal. Annoyingly.

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

Update 103: Anyone else stuck behind a disrupted sprinter near Tussen de Vaarten? Bring a book.

I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [119.2]

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

Update 61: Brought the dogs to Hilversum. One of them made a new enemy. The enemy was a leaf.

The herons union would like to add: more fish, fewer drones. [119.3]

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

Sunset over Naarden made the whole commute feel like a documentary with a better soundtrack.

Update 62: CloudFest talk notes: observability without a bill shock strategy is just expensive folklore.