Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

It's a wrap, friends. Join us for PGDay Lowlands 2027, in... TBA!!

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Who watched the debate and was swayed either way ✋

Strong contestants that were able to set their differences aside to ultimately come to a consensus (following the "polder model").

Thank you Sebastiaan Mannem, Marc Linster, Mayuresh B., and Derk van Veen

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Nail-biting suspense! Is #PostgreSQL on a Raspberry Pi faster than a cloud managed instance?! @intrbiz explores at @pgdaylowlands.

#Postgres #RPI #RaspberryPi #cloud #database #OpenSource

Intellectual loneliness isn't about wanting "deep talks".

It's about realising how few people can tolerate complexity.

It's noticing how quickly people rush to have an answer not to understand, but to feel right.

It's watching people form entire worldviews off headlines, vibes, and whatever reels told them last.

It's the silence that follows when you say something that doesn't fit neatly into someone's script.

It's not arrogance.

It's exhaustion, from always having to code-switch between what you actually think and what's safe to say around people who shut down at nuance.

And no one warns you: Once your brain learns to stretch, small talk doesn't just bore you, it alienates you.

You're not looking for smart people. You're looking for people who are still thinking.

Wow. TIL the purpose of the guide rail tiles in pavements. Makes absolute sense once you see them being used.

Very much hoping i've not been causing blind folks problems in the years i didn't know what they were for.

#Accessibility #Blind #Community

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ih1xFcB5Gak?si=EebpCMaZennNbhcQ

A UK man was acquitted of terrorism charges after delivering his own closing argument:

The devil exists amongst those who deliberately starve children to death because they rationalise that those children will only grow up to be terrorists. It exists among those who bomb tent encampments and literally burn children and their parents alive. It exists amongst those who call Palestinians “human animals” the same phrase used by Himmler, the head of the SS about Jewish children in a speech on October 4, 1943 to senior SS Generals.

https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492

1/2 🧵

#GoodNews #Politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/117202983989699195

Quietly happy that I’m using Xubuntu, not whatever the hell this Oligarchy Linux is or whatever it’s called, and I’m using pass, the standard Unix password manager, and not one of the “trust us with your passwords: here’s loads of ui you don’t want” Valley services. A bit clunky and awkward? Yup. Am I fine with it for the sense of security and unchanging comfort it provides? Also yup.

PGDay UK 2026 is next Tuesday, 8 September, in the west end of London. Two parallel tracks this year.

Single-day PostgreSQL conferences are the best value on the community calendar. No travel week, and the hallway track is the actual product.

https://2026.pgday.uk

https://pgexperts.com

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #PGDayUK

FOSDEM PGDay will in 2027 expand to 2 days and be held on Jan 28-29 in Brussels, Belgium, ahead of the weekend #FOSDEM event. Further details and updated website to follow soon.

#fosdempgday #postgresql #postgres #brussels

PGDay UK is coming to London this September.
A full day of PostgreSQL talks and community.
Get your ticket here: https://2026.pgday.uk/