[en] Welcome to euroquis.nl. Originally intended as a site for a European source-code-quality project, it now serves as the hub of my online presence. Most of what happens here goes on on the blog.

[nl] Welkom bij euroquis.nl. Dit was oorspronkelijk bedoeld als site voor een Europees code-kwaliteitsbeoordelingsproject. Nu is het centrum van mijn online aanwezigheid. Er gebeurt vooral wat op mijn blog.

Posts

• Feb 3, 2026

  GPG Update 2026

  A recent toot of mine got the response “friends don’t let friends use GPG” which, I suppose, is true enough. It certainly isn’t the attestation-friendly thing to use, and the opsec failures that are so easy with GPG-encrypted mail make it a hazard there. But for some things it’s all we’ve got, and I do like to sign Calamares releases and incidental FreeBSD things. And I am nominally the maintainer of the security/gnupg port on FreeBSD. So gpg.fail notwithstanding, here’s notes on my 2026 GPG key update.

• Jan 29, 2026

  Ooo, what does this disk do?

  I have a pile of hard drives. 3.5” Spinning rust. There’s like a dozen of them, some labeled cryptically (EBN D2), some infuriatingly (1) and some not-at-all. Probably most of them work. But how to effectively figure out what is on them? FreeBSD to the rescue.

• Jan 24, 2026

  In praise of memory-leak-detection

  Nicolas Fella wrote a bit about enabling memory leak detection in KDE CI, and I thought I’d add some comments from a different software engineering environment (e.g. my work-work).

• Jan 14, 2026

  Debian SBuild for FreeBSD People

  For other-$WORK I am doing a bit of Debian packaging (prep-work) and upstream wrangling to bring some projects into a more-modern world. So now I have a Debian 13 workstation and need to build things for Debian Unstable without breaking my host system. On FreeBSD, this is a job for Poudriere. Here’s my notes on how I do something half-assedly similar on Debian (as usual, mostly documentation for “future me”).

• Jan 13, 2026

  2025 Musically Wrapped

  I have a paper calendar. It hangs on the wall. I draw things on it, like 🎜 Kladderadatch, to remind me where to go of an evening (or this afternoon). At the end of the year, with that calendar and my ticket history from Doornroosje (a music podium in Nijmegen) I can reconstruct my concert visits of the year. Here’s my year wrapped.

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