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I’m a father of one, a hobby guitar player and also a Senior OpenShift Architect and Member of the Works Council for HCS company in The Netherlands. Working with Open Source since 1999, I have been focusing mainly on Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible for the last few years.
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25 Oct 2025
When my father died in 2018, a few boxes of slides and negatives were left behind in my parents house in Lelystad. After it was sold, it lingered in the house of my sister’s in-laws in Nieuwenhoorn, but that was sold too. And after a large cleanup of the collection which moved to my sister’s house, I’ve decided to take this boxes home with me and bite the bullet on buying a PlusTek OpticFilm scanner.
18 Aug 2025
Ryan Palstra was born August 13th, 2025 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. After a few days at a Birth Center, he and his mother are now resting at home. He is all healthy and sleeps a lot. Due to his face, the look in his eyes, his length of 52 centimeters and long legs, I have a sneaky suspicion he’s mine ;)
4 Aug 2025
After years of running WordPress, I’ve finally bit the bullet and moved to a Static Site Generator, in my case: Hugo. After long deliberation, I decided not to move most of the old content over.
I registered palstra.com in 2000, and at that time, still built it by hand in plain HTML, sometimes with help of some tooling. In 2004, I moved over to Movable Type, and after some time, migrated to WordPress.