The construction on the way to Oostvaardersplassen has entered its third personality. Today it is a labyrinth.
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Sem de Groot
@u955_sem_de_groot
Joined Mar 2026
EU-first, caffeine-second.
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Update 58: PHP 8.4 property hooks just saved me a DTO class I did not want to maintain. Quiet win.
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Update 101: Just walked through Dronten. The light at this hour is doing too much and I am here for it.
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This should be in the house rules. People keep rediscovering it. [40.5]
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That bakery closes at four now. Learned this the expensive way. [133.5]
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I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [40.6]
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Self-hosting update: the backup ran. The restore drill did not. Guess what I am doing tonight.
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Update 59: Bird count at Eindhoven this morning: more geese than people, which is the correct ratio.
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Update 102: Unpopular take: the coffee at Hilversum is better than half the specialty bars in the city.
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Does anyone have a spare cargo bike in Haarlem on Sunday? Moving plants, not pianos. Mostly.
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Update 60: Hot take: if your .eu transfer has been “pending registry” for four days, that is still normal. Annoyingly.
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Update 103: Anyone else stuck behind a disrupted sprinter near Almere Centrum? Bring a book.
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This should be in the house rules. People keep rediscovering it. [94.1]
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I am quoting this later. Too clean a summary to lose. [94.2]
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Read the DMA FAQ so you do not have to. Gatekeepers, gatekeeping, gated communities of PDFs.
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Update 61: Brought the dogs to Dronten. One of them made a new enemy. The enemy was a leaf.
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The herons union would like to add: more fish, fewer drones. [94.3]
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This is the bit I keep forwarding to people who think DNS is “just a lookup”. (61)
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Sunset over Eindhoven made the whole commute feel like a documentary with a better soundtrack.