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Ja daar zijn we weer! De vorige update uit maart was getiteld “Licht aan het einde van de tunnel”. Nou wil ik niet al te veel pochen, en resultaten uit het verleden bieden geen garanties voor de toekomst, maar het klopte allemaal best behoorlijk. De spectaculaire daling in ziekenhuiscijfers kwam in werkelijkheid een week later dan ik verwacht had. Ok. Ik wil graag mijn Facebook- en IRC-vrienden bedanken voor hun vele goede vragen en suggesties voor deze post - want er zijn nog genoeg goede vragen over.

Wir haben Coronamaßnahmen, aber Menschen weigern sich, mitzuhelfen. Es gibt effektive Impfungen, aber Menschen verkünden laut, diese niemals nehmen zu wollen. In diesem Text bringe ich einige Vorschläge, wie du einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Aufklärung der Menschen leisten kannst. Ja, genau du. Viele Leser meines Blogs sind die “Haustechniker” in der Verwandtschaft, die das WLAN einrichten, den Fernseher aufbauen oder schwierige Dinge erklären. Gute Aussichten, als jemand gesehen zu werden, den man um Rat fragen kann und der sich auskennt.

This page is nothing special, I put recipes there I look up from time to time on the monstrous ad-laden recipe sites that also tell me your life story. I use cups because they aren’t the worst. Dutch Baby First: Heat cast iron pan, heat oven to 220C. Ingredients: 3 large eggs 1/2 cup of full fat milk 1/2 cup of flour tablespoon of sugar / vanilla sugar 4 tablespoons of butter More butter for preparation Whisk first four ingredients together, while melting the butter.

One year ago I paused my programming life and started writing a novel, with the illusion that my new activity was deeply different than the previous one. A river of words later, written but more often rewritten, I’m pretty sure of the contrary: programming big systems and wri...

I love Europe, and I want to see the European Union succeed. I also love the Internet, and I want to see it thrive as well. And it therefore pains me that it now appears that the European Union might inadvertently be picking an ugly fight with “The Internet”. UPDATE: I am EXCEPTIONALLY happy to report that through robust engagement with European institutions who understood the problem, the root servers are now fully out of scope of the NIS2 directive!

Coming to grips with DevOps metrics In my team we have been considering ways to monitor our own performance, and finding some ways to contextualise our ongoing process and quality improvements. Like many other teams, we’ve landed on the DORA metrics as a good way of doing th...

This part of the history of PowerDNS is mostly about our business adventures & merger with Open-Xchange. The technical history of this period is described in part 3a. Business In 2013, PowerDNS was in a crucial phase. Existing business was going well, but we were receiving pointed signals there was trouble on the horizon. Some existing customers were close to deserting us, because we could not provide them with the top-down attention other vendors were lavishing on them.

Contrary to popular belief, you don't need Devise to implement API key authentication in a Ruby on Rails app.

Er is in Nederland een levendige discussie gaande of we in moeten zetten op kernenergie of niet. Afhankelijk van wie je spreekt is kernenergie een groene en noodzakelijke manier om onze CO₂-doelen te halen, of is het overbodige onzin. Ik ben een groot gelover in het idee van kernenergie. Maar onze auto’s en huizen kunnen we niet aandrijven met ideeën. Die drijf je aan met kerncentrales. En daar hebben we het nooit over, de kernindustrie.

I’ve been giving a talk on the importance of learning from failure to every YC batch for last few years. I wrote this post in 2017 but never…

2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups

A while back I had to re-activate my deactivated Facebook account to participate in a Messenger group chat. I wasn’t exactly happy about this, but being an absolutist about these things is not worthwhile either. After re-activating my account I decided it would make me slightly happier about the situation if I wiped all the content from my account. A digital detox if you will. Ever since then I’ve had a nagging feeling I should expand this idea to other platforms. This blog post is about how I deleted all my tweets on Twitter.

Brief post, in response to the many many many technical people that propose to print their own mRNA vaccines “now that the source is out there”. I’ve spent a lot of time individually explaining why this is unlikely to happen any time soon, and I thought it a good idea to explain it here as well. Mountains of details on how the vaccines are actually produced can be found on this awesome page by Jonas Neubert and Cornelia Scheitz.

UPDATE: Back in December 2020 when this article was first posted, I noted that some receivers might not be able to deal with the advent of production signals from the eccentric satellites. This has indeed proved to be a problem for U-blox F9 series receivers in a specific configuration. The application note links to this article (thanks!) and also (correctly) states that the signals from the eccentric satellites do not in fact comply with the Galileo Open Service ICD.

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En toen was het toch weer tijd voor een Corona Update, de eerste sinds november 2020. Doordat er zoveel nieuws is geweest over varianten en vaccins is het zicht een beetje kwijt op waar we nu zijn. En dat is des te vervelender nu de cijfers weer omhoog lijken te gaan. Daarom een samenvatting die eigenlijk heel rooskleurig is, zelfs met de varianten. Dit betekent overigens niet dat de maatregelen al opgeheven kunnen worden!

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