Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

6th in the lightning talk lineup at
@pgDayParis #pgdayparis 2024 was the awesome
@michristofides of pgMustard who gave a talk titled "BUFFERS by default"

Anyone who knows Michael & his work with #PostgreSQL will not be surprised his talk was about BUFFERS!
#Postgres #database #conference

4th in the @pgDayParis #pgdayparis lightning talk lineup was Chris Ellis!

Chris's #NordicPGDay talk was full of #PostgreSQL tips & feature advice, but this lightning talk was altogether different, about "Electric Elephants" he made in homage to the Slonik (elephant) mascot.

Why oh why did he do this? "I get bored"
#Postgres #OpenSource #database #conference

Last week's
@pgDayParis #pgdayParis was a fun #PostgreSQL learning opportunity. Also: what a hallway track!

Series of posts coming about all of the pgDay Paris 2024 ⚡️ Lightning Talks

1st lightning talk was mine, titled: 🦋 Fighting the Butterflies & giving your first Postgres conference talk
#Postgres #conference #community #database #OpenSource https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgdayparis2024/schedule/session/5425-lightning-talks/

Welp. It's official. #Redis is no longer #OSS

While I wasn't a contributor to the core, I presented on it dozens of times, talked to thousands, and wrote a book about it.

I probably wouldn't have done any of that with that kind of license.

Very disappointed.

If you are a first-time speaker and aren’t sure whether to submit, we encourage you to do so!

🗓️ #CFP will CLOSE on Sunday, April 7, 2024 @ 11:59PM PDT

https://aka.ms/posette-cfp-2024
#PosetteConf

From 1989 to 2019, the richest 1% of families increased their share of total national wealth from 27% to 34%.

At the same time, families in the bottom 50% saw their share drop from 4% to 2%.

When I say trickle-down economics is a hoax, this is what I mean.

The Inaccessibility Cycle

#disability #ableism #accessibility

Postgres is eating the database world, https://medium.com/@fengruohang/postgres-is-eating-the-database-world-157c204dcfc4.

Interesting point of view and facts about Postgres: how it becomes the kernel for databases, à la Linux for OS. It’s fast, robust, reliable, and extensible. It’s the de facto default choice when a new kind of database needs to emerge. All extensions are working together, it’s open source, well documented etc. It’s a powerful database framework.

#postgres #database

Henrietta Dombrovskaya kicking off #PostgreSQL @ #SCaLE21x Day 2 with "Securing Your PostgreSQL Data: A Comprehensive Guide to Protecting Your #Database Assets"
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/securing-your-postgresql-data-comprehensive-guide-protecting-your-database
#security #openSource #databases #postgres

Women in #Postgres / at @pgDayParis
Picture by @technoempress

#OpenCore means "we won't accept the contribution you worked hard to implement on your own dime and time because we need to keep it a proprietary feature in the Enterprise Edition".

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #OSS #SoftwareFreedom #Community #COSS
https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/pull/3266#issuecomment-1984106576

The #pgDay Paris Lightning Talks slot is full!
Diversity of #postgreSQL topics we hope you'll enjoy thanks to @clairegiordano, @Soulou, @Karenhjex, @intrbiz, @FulSpoon, @michristofides and @DreesFloor
https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgdayparis2024/schedule/session/5425-lightning-talks/

What an excellent page full of updates for KDE MegaRelease 6!
I'm looking forward to trying this update to the desktop and applications from the Friendliest Developers on the Internet™️
https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/
#linux #kde #plasma

The table shows how much of the web is being broken with the release of iOS 17.4.

via https://infrequently.org/2024/02/home-screen-advantage/

A reminder that 10 years ago the U.K. NHS was ranked the best healthcare system in the world. We don’t need a new system. We need a new government that ends the catastrophic staff haemorrhage and remedies the chronic defunding the NHS has endured over the last decade. Tories have been meeting with private healthcare providers over that time and scores of them have shares in private healthcare companies- to them it’s all about making money out of our misery. #ukpolitics #nhs

Was chatting to Jeff Ready (CEO of Scale Computing) earlier in the week, and he noted that a lot of the new devs have only ever worked on cloud-based infrastructure. They've never configured low-level boring stuff like a hypervisor or VLANs or a RAID setup or any one of a dozen other artisan skills I have.

It's like being a blacksmith but for tech.

A must-read article about inefficiency of modern #software

"I’ve been programming for 15 years now. Recently, our industry’s lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence started really getting to me, to the point of me getting depressed by my own career and IT in general."
#IT #endtimes #programming #webdev
https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

Goodness me, @ludicity, this is brilliant.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-haymaker-you-if-you-mention-agile-again/

Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) will present "Advantage PostgreSQL" at Nordic PGDay in beautiful Oslo, Norway, on March 12!

https://2024.nordicpgday.org/schedule #postgresql #oslo #conference

It's official

Apple is killing PWAs on iOS for EU users

"To comply with the DMA’s requirements, we had to remove the Home Screen web apps feature in the EU.

－"Very low user adoption of Home Screen web apps"
－"Minimal impact to their functionality"

Time to go ☢️

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