I'm going the hortus up: I want to visit more botanical gardens and write more, so I'm combining them so one becomes a reason to do the other. In May, I visited two gardens in Rotterdam: Kralingen and Trompenburg, which formed a neat contrast between them.

This post is three parts journey, one part self-indulgence, and one part this-might-be-useful-to-you. In short: I ported fmt::join to work with <format>. You can find it at barometz/nofmt-join.

At work, we're hoping to switch some things from the excellent {fmt} library to the now standardized <format>. The one …

In October of last year I visited the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam. This was an almost religious experience, so naturally it took me a year to visit another garden like it. I'm going to pick up the pace a bit.

PuTTY is a common choice for an SSH client on Windows. Despite this, most manuals for setting up integration with tools like Git and VS Code seem to focus on OpenSSH. So what do I do when I have my SSH public/private keys set up in PuTTY, and want …

Can't have a website without talking about how it's made.

woord.baudvine.net is part of a larger effort to simplify my online infrastructure situation:

• Disentangle baudvine.net from Google Workspaces.
• Move stuff under a single domain.
• Let go of the excellent dvanb.nl domain, which is more attached to …

Something very small I finally fixed today: Certbot, the tool to get Let's Encrypt SSL/TLS certificates, doesn't support the lighttpd webserver. For some other webservers it can automatically deploy its output and restart the server, but not for lighty. It does automatically renew the certificates every so often, but …

This post was transferred from its original home on another blog. The formatting is a mess, but maybe it can still entertain someone.