Mats de Vries

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

Screenshot the DS record before you touch anything else. [55.6]

Count me in. I will be late because of the 17:40. [55.7]

Quiet evening in Almere Centrum. 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 Eindhoven. One of them made a new enemy. The enemy was a leaf.

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

Update 69: Sunset over Haarlem 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.

That matches what I saw. Timestamp even lines up. [52.1]

Update 71: Market at Eindhoven had the first decent peaches. I bought too many. I regret nothing.

Update 114: Espresso in Hilversum tasted like someone finally cleaned the group head. Small civic miracle.

That matches what I saw. Timestamp even lines up. [2.1]

Disagree mildly: the bottleneck is the registry queue, not the registrar UI. [52.2]

Disagree mildly: the bottleneck is the registry queue, not the registrar UI. [27.2]

Anyone going to the neighbourhood dinner in Haarlem? I can bring soup and a folding table.

Update 72: Office rumor mill says the staging TLS cert expires on a Friday. Of course it does.