Happening Wed Oct 8, a LIVE recording of the #TalkingPostgres podcast with amazing guest @tchorix of EDB, to talk about #PostgreSQL & The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things

Join Discord to be part of the parallel live text chat—or listen once Talking Postgres Ep32 is published on Friday (we always publish this monthly pod on a Friday...)
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Tell your database friends! Or your Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy friends... #OpenSource #podcast #Postgres #database

@etchedpixels @neil I always saw the success of Arduino as being building an ecosystem with low barrier to entry via free tooling and sdks, not the hardware.

I bet many ESPs and PIs are programmed via Arduino cores.

So it feels like Arduino as an ecosystem can survive, regardless of who might make some boards or publish the IDE.

And finally, Matt Gardener talking about isolation levels, and why Serializable is worth considering, at the PostgreSQL London Meetup.

Simon Notley kicking off tonights PostgreSQL London Meetup, talking about (Impractical) PostgreSQL Query Performance Monitoring.

I don't like the phrase "Technical Debt". It's effectively lost all meaning.

I always need to ask, "what about it is technical debt?"

I've gotten a variety of responses:
- the abstractions are wrong
- the performance is bad
- the technology is out of date
- it's undocumented
- I don't know the tech

That last one in particular when someone told me, "It's technical debt because I don't know the tech," is when I knew the phrase had lost all meaning.

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POSETTE 2026 is coming June 16–18!
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Those of you who are software engineers (not software engineering managers) and have daily standups: who wants those?

A — I do.
B — I don't, but the majority of my team does.
C — Nobody in our team does, but our manager wants them.
D — Nobody wants them, not even our manager, but we must have them per organisational policy.

(Boosts for reach much appreciated.)

@alex LTT had a recent video kind of on that topic. The AI cards don't game as well as normal ones. Nor did they render Blender as well. Seem more tuned to specific CUDA workloads.

UK petition: " Do not introduce Digital #IDcards " - petition.parliament.uk/petitio currently close to 1.65 million signatures; let's get it to 2 million today, please sign if you can... #privacy #surveillance

My view - saying the recent incidents should be a wake up call isn’t moving the needle enough in business.

So a lever is, if JLR need bailing out, put the PM on TV to announce it, explain why and the context of attacks on UK institutions, and announce paying all extortion attempts will be outlawed by the end of parliament. It would send shockwaves through business and force real resiliency planning.

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The cherry on the top of this story? At the time I was *sitting in the offices of the company acting as my ID provider* trying to design user-centric products for them.

Also in the brief flicker of life of gov.uk Identify, or whatever it was called, I tried to use it to access my driving licence details and it immediately shat itself and *deleted my entire identity* because of the apostrophe in my surname.

I expect a similar quality of execution from Starmer’s Digital ID.

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Starmer announcing a mandatory digital ID as though the mythical digital borders ever got built, or indeed even as though the last time GDS tried to build any kind of digital ID system, it didn’t get strangled in the crib by a different government department refusing to play along. He may as well have announced moon marshmallows.

Approximately 70% of all people who get cancer have eaten pickles.
Most people who have recently died in car accidents ate a pickle in the past year.
All Americans who ate pickles in 1901 have died.
Therefore, pickles obviously kill people.
(This is a post about Tylenol and autism. )

So is Starmer's latest idiotic policy, actually a way to give us all free smartphones :).

@ChrisMayLA6 I'm sure it won't be another post office scala saga of errors homelessness and suicides due to errors right...

Labour need to throw Starmer under the bus ASAP before they become as unelectable as the tories

Hmmm.... so Keir Starmer is looking to move to a universal digital ID... which I assume will effectively make owning a smartphone mandatory.

Not good news for smartphone refuseniks like me, but I knew I'd only be able to hold out so long.... but I've got a little time yet, and there's 'many a slip twixt cup & lip'

#DigitalID #politics #smartphone

h/t FT

@ChrisMayLA6 I really don't understand the enthusiasm for apps all the time.

They want ID cards? Simply issue a physical card like everyone else does.

@neil this announcement baffled me on a few levels.

The tech side of it, I see being a complete disaster, given how shit govt are at IT. I mean they can't even agree on a single signon system.

But, why does a PM with such pitiful ratings, think proposing an unpopular plan is going to help him. It's almost like he wants to sink the Labour party.

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Time for a cuppa... Earl Grey please!