Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Less than 10 days to go before #FOSDEMPgDay 2026! Reigster to join us for a full day of community driven talks! https://2026.fosdempgday.org/registration/

#postgres

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fosdempgday/115932039663146482

Are you coming to #FOSDEM in #Brussels next week?

As there's no #PostgreSQL devroom this year, have you considered joining for #FOSDEMPGDay on Friday January 30?

It's probably one of the best moment to approach the people behind the PostgreSQL project, as so many hackers will be there and even share their experience on stage!

Don't over-think it and... join us! 🫵

See you there 🖤 💛 ❤️

Regulators can take many lessons from the Grok/Twitter undressing scandal, but one of the most important is that Apple and Google are gaslighting when they claim store monopolies are necessary to protect us. Nothing could be further from the truth:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

I find this to be the most common paradox of React “engineering”.

People say React is easy and DX focused, but then continue to add layer upon layer, brick by brick, to fix the structural issues beneath.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sir_pepe/115923413113414435

This article provides the perfect view into React brain worms:

Instead of a native HTML input radio element

It’s somehow easier to import hundreds of lines of code, and implement a faux radio button (that’s actually a button with svg to LOOK LIKE A RADIO), and ARIA rules (to WORK LIKE A RADIO)

According to Tech Radar, a reason to avoid using Vivaldi web browser is "No AI-powered assistant". Yup - and we're proud of it! If you don't want slop while you shop, or scurf while you surf, give the European browser a try.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/a-i-browsers-the-price-of-admission-is-too-high/

You don't need to pay Apple or start a new subscription to unleash your creativity. We asked creatives what free software they use to get the job done and here are their picks.

A thread 🧵

https://kde.org/for/creators/

#creativity #design #audio #art #video

Edinburgh PostgreSQL community, it's time to announce our second meetup! 🐘
Join us for an evening of tech talks, networking, and pizza.

🗓️ When: Thurs, Feb 12 @ 6:00 PM
📍Where: Lister Learning and Teaching Centre, University of Edinburgh
🗣️ Talks: Follow Your Leader & Postgres to Elasticsearch Syncing
All levels are welcome. See you there!

👉 https://luma.com/uj0qvxqk

#PostgreSQL #Edinburgh #TechMeetup #Database #DevTalks #Postgres #OpenSource

Vector search is actually terrible at keywords.

Try searching for a specific SKU using only embeddings. Good luck.

Everyone is obsessed with semantic search, but sometimes you need exact matches. This is where Postgres dominates specialized vector stores.

Strategy: Hybrid Search (Keyword + Semantic).
Tool: Postgres tsvector (Full Text Search) + pgvector
Result: RAG accuracy improves by ~40% when you combine methods.

#vector #pgvector #postgres #postgresql #dougortiz #rag

If you have any Postgres performance issues, I'd love to hear about them and try to help: https://pgmustard.com/office-hours

Many happy returns to everyone who has, for security purposes, given 1st January as their birthday when registering for online services.

#AI didn't make us smarter. It just gave idiots a superpower.
Hoping for a less triggering 2026

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

(source: "Richard Scarry's Storybook Dictionary" : https://archive.org/details/1scarryRichardStorybookDictionary/page/n56/mode/1up )

People from Fujitsu and the Post Office need to be in prison.

#PostOfficeScandal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlkx6n15ero