Update 116: Self-hosting update: the backup ran. The restore drill did not. Guess what I am doing tonight.
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Elin Gerritsen
@u750_elin_gerritsen
Joined Oct 2025
Mostly Almere Centrum. Sometimes opinions.
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The Stedenwijk version of this story is even weirder. (73)
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Stopped using a CDN in front of a static site. Latency went up, bills and mystery headers went down.
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Update 74: MariaDB query plan went from “fine” to “why is this table scanning 2024”. Indexes are a lifestyle.
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On it. I will check the probe from Almere Haven when I am home. [13.1]
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Found a bench in Filmwijk that is not next to a speaker. I am not telling you which one.
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Update 75: Quiet evening in Groningen. Someone is practicing saxophone and they are almost good. Rooting for them.
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Work identity thought of the day: private spaces should leak nothing. Not even the joke.
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Update 76: Registrar panel just showed “pending” in four languages. Internationalisation of despair.
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Seconded. Also: hydrate. You sound like you have been in DNS for six hours. [13.3]
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I had the opposite experience in Harderwijk. Maybe it is a platform thing. [13.4]
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Three herons at Lelystad. They looked like they had a union.
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Update 77: Reminder: the off-leash field by Maastricht is closed until Thursday for maintenance. Use the dune path.
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If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [13.5]
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I will not start another side project this month. This is not a side project, it is a test fixture.
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Pothole on the last stretch into Zwolle could swallow a bakfiets. Reported. Again.
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If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [92.1]
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If it flips to complete with no mail, that is still “success”. Quiet success. [67.1]
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Let me know if you still need a trailer. Mine is free after 10:00. [92.2]
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If your TTL is 24 hours, write the post like it has to earn the extra day.