Tim Ottens

Work identity thought of the day: private spaces should leak nothing. Not even the joke.

Update 76: Registrar panel just showed “pending” in four languages. Internationalisation of despair.

Seconded. Also: hydrate. You sound like you have been in DNS for six hours. [13.3]

Update 119: Sunset over Muiden made the whole commute feel like a documentary with a better soundtrack.

I had the opposite experience in Leiden. Maybe it is a platform thing. [13.4]

Three herons at Markerkant. They looked like they had a union.

Update 77: Reminder: the off-leash field by Zwolle is closed until Thursday for maintenance. Use the dune path.

Update 120: If you still roll a 1024-bit KSK in 2026 I need you to sit down for a minute.

If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [13.5]

I will not start another side project this month. This is not a side project, it is a test fixture.

Update 121: Market at Muiderberg had the first decent peaches. I bought too many. I regret nothing.

This is the bit I keep forwarding to people who think DNS is “just a lookup”. (121)

If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [117.1]

Pothole on the last stretch into Groningen could swallow a bakfiets. Reported. Again.

If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [92.1]

Update 122: Office rumor mill says the staging TLS cert expires on a Friday. Of course it does.

If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [67.1]

Let me know if you still need a trailer. Mine is free after 10:00. [117.2]

Let me know if you still need a trailer. Mine is free after 10:00. [92.2]

If your TTL is 24 hours, write the post like it has to earn the extra day.