Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

As it turns out, Volkswagen has been collecting extensive geo data from all their electric cars and made them available online in an AWS bucket. Almost 10TB of geo traces from 15 MiO cars. Amazing detail and patterns. This is why I don't want a smart car 🤯 https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen/ #Volksdaten

Last day, I can't wait to "Clock Out"!

@vyruss congratulations Jimmy, it's a well deserved recognition. Same to @tchorix @floord @intrbiz @clairegiordano, all of whom have done a lot of work in & for the Postgres ecosystem!

@alvherre @vyruss @tchorix @floord @intrbiz Thank you Álvaro! What a delightful email to wake up to this morning, from Christoph Berg. And so happy about Jimmy, Boriss, Floor, & Chris too! I'm in good company it seems.

Some good news to end the year on: Today Christoph Berg emailed to say I am now listed on the official Contributors page for the #PostgreSQL #opensource project!

There are so many ppl ❤️ in Postgres 🐘 who have helped me on this 8.5+ yr journey, both inside & outside of #Microsoft. Thank you! 🙏

And @alvherre tells me that congratulations 👏 are also due to @tchorix, @floord, @intrbiz, & @vyruss. All of whom add so much to the Postgres world. 🐘
https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/

Anyone in London, interested in PostgreSQL - come and chat PostgreSQL with like minded people at our London PostgreSQL social get together.

https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/304775898/

Find some great PostgreSQL videos from PGconf.EU 2024 on https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF36ND7b_WU4QL6bA28NrzBOevqUYiPYq and don't forget to subscribe!
#postgresql #database #opensource #athens #speakers #postgres

Another day, another read through a whole-ass design system mired in *custom* "CSS-in-JS" tools that perform like crap. We will be digging out from the React community's lack of understanding about how browsers actually work for at least another decade, I fear.

Christ, this a banger.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/antiquated-react

/cc by @collinsworth

React Native, in a nutshell.

Or to put it a different way: open source maintainers are some of the most verifiably self-taught people in the history of the world, *when they want to be*. Happy to dig into tools, Google, books, mailing list archives, source code, stack traces, whatever. *If they’re motivated and have time for it.*

Saying “what they really need is… an online course” is… actually a tacit admission that what’s actually missing is time and motivation.

I’ve told LF (and others) repeatedly that “education” as the leading point is insulting. Many maintainers know exactly what they need to do, but they lack time and energy for it. Lecturing them, I mean “giving them skills”, is… rarely the need or solution.

But “education” allows LF (and friends like GH) to continue elephant-in-the-room-ing the actual solution, which is paying maintainers for the trillions of dollars of value they create.

https://fosstodon.org/@donmccurdy/113512775802077660

@monsieuricon Konsole ftw.