Gijs van den Berg

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 Bussum? Bring a book.

This should be in the house rules. People keep rediscovering it. [94.1]

I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [94.2]

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

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

The herons union would like to add: more fish, fewer drones. [94.3]

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

Sunset over Scheveningen 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.

PHP will PHP. The workaround is ugly and it works. [94.4]

Come to Filmwijk tomorrow, we can debug it on a bench. [94.5]

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

Update 63: GDPR question I am tired of: no, a legitimate interest assessment is not a vibe.

Update 106: The new bike path lighting toward Weesp is actually good. Whoever signed that off: thank you.

Officially: we are looking into it. Unofficially: yes. [94.6]

I can bring a folding table if we are still on for Almere Poort. [105.1]

I can bring a folding table if we are still on for Almere Haven. [80.1]

Market at Harderwijk had the first decent peaches. I bought too many. I regret nothing.