Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
Joined Nov 2022
Right, EMF Camp here we come.
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Sometimes you read something that tells you what you already know…but you feel as if for the first time.
I read this searing piece through hot tears of rage and renewed determination.
Canada should be using every tool we have - legal, diplomatic, economic - to rein in and isolate this rogue state.
It should be a national scandal that we aren’t.
@Floppy or solder some male headers back to back to jumper them.
@Floppy why not just crimp the dupont terminals onto the ribbon cable?
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and ...
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A British court tried protesters for criminal damage, but then sentenced them for terrorism, a charge that was never presented to the jury. This proceeding contravenes a fundamental principle of law.
And sadly a lot of IT architects only seem to exist because companies still struggle with the very flat career hierarchy of IT. What they really need to learn is how to recognise and reward good people working at the metaphorical coal face.
But 20 years in, I'm yet to find a company whom would just recognise someone for being a bloody good engineer and nothing more.
Pretty much every IT architect I've worked with, has had very faded and unrealistic technical knowledge.
That is often a significant counterpoint to the team. Where they frequently have more 'upto date' knowledge but lack the experience to understand past endeavours.
I think the closest analogue in IT to building architects are actually product managers.
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I'm not saying Safari is the new IE6; that would be unfair...to IE6. When it came out, it was world-beating in nearly every regard, but got long in the tooth.
No, Safari is more like IE 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11: predictably disappointing showings thanks to under-funding by an organisation hellbent on holding the web back to defend profits:
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David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82
Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones… and duvets
<- by me on #TheRegister
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Smalltalk-80, HyperCard, and Visual Basic 6 were far more compelling "future of programming" attempts than anything available today
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Hasn't had much coverage, but David Potter, founder and CEO of Psion, died yesterday. One of the patron saints of alt.fan.pratchett in its early years.
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Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/keir-starmer-britain-pharma-deal-covid
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UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ on mobile app stores https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/30/uk-apple-google-mobile-app-stores-developers-payment-cma
CMA says developers should be able to steer users away from app stores for payments to increase competition
@ChrisMayLA6 indeed and I bet it will be a bunch of pension funds, etc again.
@ChrisMayLA6 I might be bein overly skeptical, but I think one of the drivers behind the AI companies IPOing and pushing for index funds to reduce their rules, is to allow initial investors to cash out and push the risk onto a much wider audience.
I feel the inevitable crash is going to be much bigger and wider felt, and as usual ordinary people getting caught in the crossfire, again.
@Floppy ah, that'll likely struggle with anything with a large ground plane.
I'm still using my 21 year old xytronics solder station, being a 100W makes a huge difference on some boards. The Hako solder stations seem a reasonable price and get rave reviews all the time.
For portability I got a TS101 USB PD iron, that is surprisingly capable, easily matches a 50W+ traditional iron, thanks to the heating cartridge being right on the tip. Being able to power it from a power bank is very handy.
@Floppy what are you currently using?
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Postgres has a huge array of features; many can make application development easier and reduce application complexity. In his talk for POSETTE 2026, Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) of Nexteam reviews a range of use cases & PostgreSQL Design Patterns.
📺Watch on YouTube:
https://buff.ly/AYOM2xn
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Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
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