Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

The most generous elevator pitch for “AI” is “you can speed up the creation of extremely mediocre work that’s possibly wrong”. The fact that that’s exciting to people is depressing.

The state of programming in 2025 that makes vibe coding so attractive is IMO the result of terrible decisions in tech over the last couple of decades. Non-existent stdlibs that normalise the use of a thousand micro dependencies, blindly pulled. Constantly mutating frameworks as performance art. Untyped languages that need huge test suites to prevent basic errors. It all generates mountains of boilerplate that *of course* people want to offload any way they can, even if it’s wrong half the time

OggCamp, the unconference for open source and free culture enthusiasts returns in 2026.
🗓️ Save the date and join us, once again, at The Manchester Conference Centre on April 25th and 26th.
👀 Keep an eye out for the Call for Papers and ticket announcements soon! 🎟️
#Oggcamp #OggCamp2026 #OpenSource #TechConference #Manchester

👋 Meet Karen, Solutions Architect at Snowflake and non-voting Chair of the PGConf.EU 2025 Selection Committee!
This is the first post in our “Selection Committee Spotlight” series - stay tuned to meet the team behind the program!
#PGConfEU #PostgreSQL

Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1027289/ #LWN

#PostgreSQL Event Calendar, Reminder:

⌛️ CfP PGConf EU (Latvia)

Date: 2025-06-30

ICS file: https://ics.postgresql.life/5jro5726dq11dru3s38c919tfi.ics

Registration open https://pgday.uk/events/pgdayuk2025/news/registration-open-11/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/labour-disability-benefit-cuts-keir-starmer. The idea that Keir Starmer believes in "human dignity" is a monstrous & vile absurdity, totally disproved by his evil Government's commitment to its #disability #benefit & SEND #education cuts, @ChrisMayLA6, @HarriettMB, @junesim63, @NorthantsGreens. He wouldn't even know what human dignity WAS, let alone believe in it!

Checks out:

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

🗣️ We’re looking for volunteers for the PGConf.EU 2025 Talk Selection Committee!
Interested? Email contact@pgconf.eu by 16 June with:
• Name
• Company affiliation (if any)
• Area of PostgreSQL interest/expertise
• Previous selection committee experience

We’d love to hear from you!

Across the world, right now, billionaires, oligarchs, and corporations are using their wealth to silence dissent, undo decades of social and environmental progress, and manipulate the game in their favour.

It's #TimeToResist the billionaire takeover.

Join us! 👉 https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/time-to-resist/

Database management 101: The difference between zero and null.

🎉 Join (@karenhjex@mastodon) Karen Jex at #PosetteConf Livestream 3️⃣ to learn about skills, tools and techniques for managing #Postgres at scale. ⚖️ 🐘

https://posetteconf.com

#postgresql #databases #OpenSource

👋 Join Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) at #PosetteConf Livestream 3 to learn how to have fun with UUIDs 🎈 ☀️

https://posetteconf.com

#postgresql #databases #OpenSource #community

This week on Tue/Wed/Thu Jun 10-12 is @posetteconf, a free & virtual developer conference with 4 livestreams, 42 talks about Postgres, & a live hallway track on Discord 📺

If you use #PostgreSQL 🐘 there's probably something here for you: https://posetteconf.com/2025/schedule/

🧵(1) A quick story on why #PosetteConf matters (and why virtual conferences matter) 👇

This 4th year of the virtual @posetteconf will have:

💥 45 a-ma-zing speakers from 21 companies
📺 4 livestreams
✅ 42 #PostgreSQL talks
💬 Live virtual hallway track on Discord

The 2 keynotes are by brilliant speakers Bruce Momjian & Charles Feddersen

+ 18 talks about the Postgres core
+ 12 Postgres ecosystem talks
+ 10 talks about Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Hope to see you—or your Postgres database friends—at #PosetteConf

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👉 https://posetteconf.com/2025/schedule/