Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

#PGConfEU was an amazing #conference — I got to host a panel with awesome #PostgreSQL experts, and a crazy signing event for our book (PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook — https://www.packtpub.com/product/postgresql-16-administration-cookbook/9781835460580 — 15% off in Dec). I am thrilled, and beyond humbled, to be able to do these things. Thank you all 🙏 #Postgres #Community

Special thanks to Sabine Schatzer, @clairegiordano and @floord for their great photos.

#opensource #database

Borrowed from a friend. #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday

Right now @l_avrot & @karenhjex are on stage at #pgconfeu demonstrating creativity on steroids (!!!!) to shine a light on the challenges women face navigating a male-dominated tech world, including in Postgres… The talk is “Trying to be Barbie in Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa House” & I applaud Lætitia’s & Karen’s courage in giving this talk #Barbie #PostgreSQL #database #diversity #womenintech

Today the a-ma-zing @l_avrot presented at #pgconfeu about “Learning advanced SQL the weird (and hard) way”, about how she’s been using SQL-only (#PostgreSQL flavor) to solve #AdventOfCode puzzles. What fun. #Postgres #SQL #databases

The design on the screens for the #PGConfEU #PostgreSQL #Conference looks really nice!

The big one is in the conference area, the small one in the elevator.

Thanks to Chris Ellis @intrbiz for the work!

Not only Chris did this wonderful elephant with lights (everybody wants one here)
He also talks about IoT with PostgreSQL at #pgconfeu
Moving, storing.... Interesting way to address the topic from the "end device".

Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

🚩⁠https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

EDIT for clarification: MV3 in Chrome will still allow some ad blocking extensions, but will severely limit their blocking ability and even restricts pre-set filters to 50 MAX.

New entry in #PostgreSQL Event Calendar:

👫 FOSDEM PGDay 2024

Date: 2024-02-02
Location: Brussels, Belgium

ICS file: https://ics.postgresql.life/15083o5iim1rdchlcj24gf1opk.ics

That's 500 tickets sold! We still have plenty of seats left, but don't wait too long if you want to be sure you get one!

https://2023.pgconf.eu/registration/

Training sessions are also selling fast! 2 sessions sold out, and 1 almost!

https://2023.pgconf.eu/training/

#postgres #postgresql #pgconfeu

I am not monetizing my SQL-writing abilities properly

Two years since the new version of google icons and the struggle is still real