Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

@peterbrown unsurprisingly:

Finland now spends **15,000 euros less per year per homeless person** than it did before implementing Housing First

The savings are attributed to a decrease in emergency situations among homeless persons, such as assaults, injuries, and breakdowns

The savings in terms of services needed by one person can be up to **9,600 euros a year** when compared to the costs that would result from that person being homeless

Housing First Fact Sheet: https://endhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Housing-First-Fact-Sheet_Feb-2022.pdf.

Secret Panel HERE 😑 https://tapas.io/episode/2927671

the upside of having ADHD is that I can complete a month's worth of work for a whole team in the space of a weekend and a couple of evenings.

the downside of having ADHD is that I keep putting myself in situations where I need to complete a month's worth of work for a whole team in the space of a weekend and a couple of evenings.

Now #PostgreSQL hacker Melih Mutlu of Microsoft is on stage at #PGDayChicago sharing his "Takeaways from Hacking on Postgres as a newcomer"

My favorite quote:

❞ I had only coded in C in CS101 in university & thought if I pass this class I will probably never code in C again"

// You were so wrong Melih!💥

#Postgres #community #developers #OpenSource #Microsoft

Welcome Nexteam (@nexteamltd) as a Benefactor sponsor of PGDay UK 2024 in London! https://2024.pgday.uk/sponsors/ #postgres #pgdayuk #london #opensource #database

Agencies have figured out that "customized COTS” means "expensive custom software that you don't actually own,” so vendors have started calling it "configured COTS." The problem is that some commercial software *is* extensively configurable by customers, and it can be tough to know which is which.

Here's the test to apply: Can the software be "configured” by the customer or any vendor of their choosing? If "yes," it's legit. If "no," it's just expensive custom software that you don't own.

Happy 😁 to share the news that all of the talk selection decisions for @posetteconf (free & virtual developer event, now in its 3rd year) were emailed out last week, as promised ✅

📝 🔬 In the interest of transparency, we thought we would share a bit about the process the POSETTE talk selection team used to create the roster of #PostgreSQL talks for #PosetteConf

#Postgres #OpenSource #community #Microsoft
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-postgresql/about-talk-selection-for-posette-an-event-for-postgres-2024/ba-p/4120268

Dave Page: PGDay UK 2024 - It's back on September 11th in London, England!! https://pgday.uk/events/pgdayuk2024/news/pgday-uk-2024-its-back-on-september-11th-in-london-england-8/
#postgres #postgresql