Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

listen, I've had my moments, but at least I've never mansplained Margaret Atwood's book to Margaret Atwood

"Without ever leaving HTML"*

*Spending most of your time in JavaScript build configuration hell. But, hey, at least you're not in CSS.

@clairegiordano giving her talk "What's in a Postgres major release? An analysis of contributions in the v17 timeframe" at #pgconfeu
#PostgreSQL

If as Chris Giles (FT) suggests, we need to match our aspirations for a European style welfare state, with European levels of taxation (higher for everyone, not just the wealthy as often now suggested), then we hit a major political problem.

If we demand more taxes before the public sector recovers from the Tory engineered crisis, we merely build up resentment at the mismatch between cost(s) & service.

Reeves' fiscal rules must allow sufficient investment to square that circle!

#AutumnBudget

I learn so much from @tchorix in every single one of his #PostgreSQL conference talks (& from every conversation for that matter)

Here are the best pics I captured from Boriss’s talk at @pgconfeu #PGConfEU today, titled “Sparta’s Dual Kingship and PostgreSQL Active-Active” #Postgres #database

Valeria Kaplan gives her talk "connection_builder for PostgreSQL community" at #pgconfeu .

If you're attending @pgconfeu and you're either invested in the #PostgreSQL extension ecosystem, or you've always wanted to contribute to projects that extend Postgres' functionality but didn't know where to start: register for the free Extension Ecosystem Summit on the 22nd!

To join the fun: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/extension-ecosystem-summit-tickets-1022518730047?aff=oddtdtcreator

Watch Chris Ellis’s (@intrbiz) talk for #PosetteConf 2024 about “Even JSONB In Postgres Needs Schemas” 🐘
https://youtu.be/F6X60ln2VNc?si=ah_3Y9gSb2rG0DaY
#postgres #databases #OpenSource #community

Weekend of running the UKs largest free-culture un-conference? Done.

A year of planning culminated in 200+ likeminded people, 40+ talks, an amazing crew, friends old and new and of course, Pete the disco pigeon!

Now time to hang up my organising hat and head home. Until next time!

https://ogg.camp/

#oggcamp

That's a wrap for another year! Special thanks to crew, organisers and sponsors for helping make it happen. Keep following for updates on how OggCamp-next is shaping up! #oggcamp #overandout

Can anyone recommend a *free* RSS to email newsletter service?

I have about 1,000 subscribers on JetPack and, due to the #WPDrama, I've removed the plugin.

I basically want to give a service an RSS feed & a list of email addresses, and have it deliver them an email whenever the RSS feed updates.

I'm currently considering https://follow.it and https://www.beehiiv.com/ - but any *personal* recommendations welcome.