Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Mark your calendars! PGConf.EU 2026 will be held on October 20-23, 2026, in Valencia, Spain.

#pgconfeu #postgresql #database #valencia

I don't think the UK media have made nearly enough noise about the US Navy sinking an *unarmed* Iranian warship and then, in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions, leaving them to drown.

This is a heinous war crime which the media would be rightly up in arms about if any country that wasn't nominally an "ally" had done it.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gcii-1949/article-18/commentary/2017

#IRISDena #IranWar #WarCrimes #GenevaConventions

In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly occurred to me that I had never seen anybody put together this particular demo before, and I realized it had to be done. Messy source code at https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs.

[$] The ongoing quest for atomic buffered writes

There are many applications that need to be able to write multi-block chunks of data to disk with the assurance that the operation will either complete successfully or fail altoget [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060063/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #PostgreSQL #PostgreSQL #XFS #BPF #io_uring

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Just over a day until our Call for Papers closes so if you're thinking about submitting one, now is the time!

https://talks.oggcamp.org/oggcamp-2026/cfp

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

https://lyra.horse/x86css/

lol. reasons never to use bcachefs or spend 1ms thinking about it ever again:

it's vibe coded.

yeah, a vibe coded Linux file system.

here's the "blog" of the lead dev's "AI assistant": https://poc.bcachefs.org/

i now have much more insight into bcachefs getting kicked out of the kernel

@ludicity For the record, I work at a software company that employs ~10k developers.

Before LLMs, I'd encounter such engineers a couple of times a month, but I interact with a lot of engineers, specifically the ones that need help or are new at the company or industry at large, so it's a selected sample. Even the most inexperienced ones are willing and able to learn with some guidance.

After LLMs, there's been a significant uptick, and these new ones are grossly incompetent, incurious, impatient, and behave like addicts if their supply of tokens is at all interrupted. If they run out of prompt credits, its an emergency because they claim they can't do any work at all. They can't even explain the architecture of what they are making anymore, and can't even file tickets or send emails without an LLM writing it for them, and they certainly lack in any kind of reading comprehension.

It's bleak and depressing, and makes me want to quit the industry altogether.

Come join us at NordicPGDay in #Helsinki to see Postgres professionals like Alexander Kukushkin (@cyberdemn) talk about "Rediscovering PgQ"!

#nordicpgday #postgresql #conference #finland

https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2026/sessions/session/7403-rediscovering-pgq/

Attention!

If you are into #opensource and free culture then you should know about our unconference.

Coming to Manchester, UK on April 25-26.

Main track CfP is open, crew volunteering opportunities available, or just bring your projects and talks, and help make the weekend what it will be! Everyone welcome.

https://www.oggcamp.org/

Come join us at NordicPGDay in #Helsinki to see Postgres professionals like Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) talk about "PG Tricks"!

#nordicpgday #postgresql #conference #finland

https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2026/sessions/session/7489-pg-tricks/

Lmao.

Very normal 🇩🇰👌