Update 85: I will not start another side project this month. This is not a side project, it is a test fixture.
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Niels Visser
@u593_niels_visser
Joined Dec 2025
I reply more than I post. That is a threat.
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Update 128: Wrote a 280-character incident report and it still felt like I left out the important part.
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This is the actual failure mode. Pending with no expiry. [28.4]
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Ha. I said the same thing last week and got three contradictory answers. [78.5]
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Ha. I said the same thing last week and got three contradictory answers. [53.5]
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Yes. Ask for the auth code status, not a human SLA. [78.6]
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Rotated logs, rotated keys, forgot to rotate myself. Sleep is also an SLO.
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Update 86: Pothole on the last stretch into Weesp could swallow a bakfiets. Reported. Again.
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Not sure this belongs in a public space, but the technical bit is fair. [39.1]
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Not sure this belongs in a public space, but the technical bit is fair. [14.1]
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Honest question: is the bus lane in Stedenwijk a bus lane or a suggestion? Asking for a bicycle.
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Update 87: If your TTL is 24 hours, write the post like it has to earn the extra day.
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Seconded. Also: hydrate. You sound like you have been in DNS for six hours. [39.2]
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This is the bit I keep forwarding to people who think DNS is “just a lookup”. (1)
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Ha. I said the same thing last week and got three contradictory answers. [107.1]
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Seconded. Also: hydrate. You sound like you have been in DNS for six hours. [14.2]
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I had the opposite experience in Europoort. Maybe it is a platform thing. [39.3]
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Unpopular take: the coffee at Pampus is better than half the specialty bars in the city.
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Copied a production dump into staging and immediately found the row that should not exist. Classic.