#caturday: A picture with the rare white stuff. ❄️

This mornings snowy run yielded some great pictures. A vary rare sight in The Netherlands nowadays. #running #snow

Well, either its doing the long run while its snowing, in daylight, or doing it this evening while its dark when the snow is presumably gone again. I suppose I'll try the snow then. #running

This morning, I had a "shower thought": I could adopt the 80/20 approach to my overall life in 2026—80% relaxed, 20% fully committed. I call this Polarized Living. Jokes aside: I should stress less. #running #newyearsresolution

Went to see Avatar 3 last night. What a great sequel. Very well done. #avatar3

Remember me saying I was staring down the #meshcore / #meshtastic rabbit hole? I set up a MeshCore repeater node with a small solar panel on our roof. My inner nerd craved stats, so I built a thing to extract them. Very fun and educational. https://meshcore.jorijn.com

The volume 2 trailer of #strangerthings dropped. Whoah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Eo0D038rQ

#mcp and all is fun, but most providers aren't very token-optimized. They kill the entire conversation with the #ai in just one prompt due to a flood of tokens.

It went pretty well, despite being sick. Happy about the results. #running

Doing a 15K race today while struck by a cold. Wish me luck. #running

Staring down into the #meshtastic / #meshcore rabbit hole. Oh boy.

Just a little joke. #cloudflare

I spent a few days sick and noticed a flaw in the Daily Suggested Workouts algorithm by #garmin: When you're under the weather, but your HRV and sleep are still good, the algorithm continues to recommend intense workouts. This can worsen your condition since each hard workout can temporarily […]

Debating a challenge to start the new year: going the first 30 days without a smartphone, in an effort to reset my unhealthy patterns with my phone. The rules: a dumbphone for calling and perhaps a once-a-day sync with Garmin for running metrics. I can think of some impractical consequences […]

Days since it was NetworkPolicies: 0 #kubernetes

RE: https://procolix.social/@koen/115609954794839500 Laat NOS een voorbeeld nemen aan social.overheid.nl :-)

Another night spent playing with GatewayAPI. I preferred @cilium since I already use it in most places. However, this cluster where #tootcommunity runs is entirely IPv4-only. Turns out, if you send data to the IPv6 endpoint of an external LB, and that LB forwards the source IPv6 IP using PROXY […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@stevelieber/115600596642853677 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Playing around with the Gateway API this evening, in preparation for the stopping of Ingress NGINX. Pretty cool implementation, I'm a fan. Went with the Cilium Envoy approach for now, since we're already running Cilium at most clusters.

Bought heated socks for use on the #motorcycle 🥶

Pretty cool to see the #cloudflare outage in these new charts. The `push` queue on #mastodon is showing heightened errors since 12:48. The `retry` queue is rapidly growing. #mastoadmin

Lots of Mastodon instances are also down due to #cloudflare as well.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115569820207257167 Mastodon sets the example for a better internet, thanks to @Gargron. #mastodon

Did you know that there’s a premium version of Whatsapp which : - Has no advertising - Has no mandatory AI integration - Has no tracking and does not gather your personnal data - Has increased privacy and stronger encryption - Is exclusive and allows you to chat with other premium members Best […]

Built a Mastodon observability stack over the weekend for toot.community: Grafana dashboards (web/sidekiq/streaming/edge), VictoriaMetrics rules, SLOs & alerts. The ultimate goal was to get meaningful symptom (user-facing) alerts and to learn about Jsonnet […] [Original post on toot.community]

Still one of my favorite photos of Donna, who unfortunately passed away last year. Perfect representation of “If I fits, I sits.” #catsofmastodon

Stefano’s paradox: the desire to do something is inversely proportional to how urgent it is. #laws #paradox #stefanosparadox

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp/115555724255071879 The old "oh no, your lifetime purchase was for our OLD app.."

‘I’m gonna need a note from your doctor saying you’re dead otherwise you’re gonna have to feed me’ #Caturday

One thing I’ve learned is that your quality of life as an adult is very much linked to your ability to have difficult conversations with your peers.

Doing the outside cooking thing again today. A slow simmer bolognese sauce. Already looking forward to tonight. #bbq #biggreenegg #bolognese

"What happens in the cloud, stays in the cloud." 😂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPpkzdS-q4 #devops

Might as well bite the bullet and migrate directly to Gateway API. I suspect Kubernetes will eventually deprecate the Ingress resource too, since Gateway API offers that and more. To the maintainers: Huge thanks for all your time maintaining this project all this time […]

I've been experimenting with MCP servers in Claude, which essentially allow you to connect data sources like Garmin and Strava to AI. This week, I noticed that my heart rate was higher than usual at the same pace, so I asked Claude to analyze the data. To my surprise, it found a cause and […]

I just noticed that MinIO has also removed OpenAI login from their community edition. At this rate, they might as well eliminate S3 compatibility entirely. #minio #devops

Ingress NGINX retired AND Helm v4 released? Big changes in just one week. #kubernetes #devops

Here's your occasional reminder to download a complete backup of your Mastodon data. Go to `/settings/export` on your instance and hit request. #mastodon

The Gitlab Helm chart requires a whole new degree. I get why it's complex, but I don't like that it's complex. #devops

"The Philips Hue Pro bridge can detect movement in a room, just by measuring interference between multiple lights in the same room. With this, it can turn on lights when people enter the room." ..What? 🤯

#aurora ribbons from cockpit of a flight heading to Fort MacMurray #alberta as major solar storm hits earth.

I was renewing an #insurance policy this morning and they said they no longer accept @protonprivacy emails addresses because 'they are associated with fraud'. WTAF? They used my #protonmail address happily for 3 years. Where has this change come from? Is this #bigtech selling #cybersec products […]

Another interesting adventure from the life of a #MastoAdmin: "Where do all these requests come from?" These spikes come and go on a fairly steady rhythm (each ~60 minutes). I found this to be interesting, so I investigated which URLs are being requested the […] [Original post on toot.community]

Every time I need to figure out what happened during an odd moment in the logs and metrics, I am genuinely impressed with how easy and fast it is to use @victoriametrics and their logging product. Makes doing #devops things a breeze. #kubernetes

Accumulated some tiredness in my body over the last few days, so this morning's tempo run turned into a threshold run. Double down on the protein and rest for the next few days. #running

Helped some friends take down a couple of walls yesterday. I woke up feeling some parts of my body I didn’t know I had.

Why is my timeline filled with pictures of sheep? #Defaidodon

At some point in your life, you’ll buy a nice chair for yourself, but then every time you want to sit in it, you see this. #catsofmastodon

Started watching "Keuringsdienst van Waarde", a Dutch show on NPO. I learnt that in Canada, for Merino wool, they: a) Cut off the skin on the sheep's behind, to prevent them from being eaten alive by flies because their feces will get stuck in the wool.. It's called Mulesing. And b) It's our […]

Doing a fairly large print today. It's a fruit washer, as per the wife's request. It'll take nearly 21 hours to complete, as it'll be switching between PLA/PETG throughout the print for easier support removal later on. #bambu #3dprinting #p1s

I just found out that Talos Linux by @siderolabs removed their need to use `--preserve` during an upgrade. By default, it wipes the entire EMPHERAL partition during an upgrade. Most of the time, this wasn't an issue, but sometimes it was. A change for the better :-)