Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Remembering Grace Hopper (Communications of the ACM)

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/remembering-grace-hopper/

She had a habit of bucking convention and espoused the motto, “It's always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.”

listen, I've had my moments, but at least I've never mansplained Margaret Atwood's book to Margaret Atwood

"Without ever leaving HTML"*

*Spending most of your time in JavaScript build configuration hell. But, hey, at least you're not in CSS.

@clairegiordano giving her talk "What's in a Postgres major release? An analysis of contributions in the v17 timeframe" at #pgconfeu
#PostgreSQL

If as Chris Giles (FT) suggests, we need to match our aspirations for a European style welfare state, with European levels of taxation (higher for everyone, not just the wealthy as often now suggested), then we hit a major political problem.

If we demand more taxes before the public sector recovers from the Tory engineered crisis, we merely build up resentment at the mismatch between cost(s) & service.

Reeves' fiscal rules must allow sufficient investment to square that circle!

#AutumnBudget

I learn so much from @tchorix in every single one of his #PostgreSQL conference talks (& from every conversation for that matter)

Here are the best pics I captured from Boriss’s talk at @pgconfeu #PGConfEU today, titled “Sparta’s Dual Kingship and PostgreSQL Active-Active” #Postgres #database

Valeria Kaplan gives her talk "connection_builder for PostgreSQL community" at #pgconfeu .

If you're attending @pgconfeu and you're either invested in the #PostgreSQL extension ecosystem, or you've always wanted to contribute to projects that extend Postgres' functionality but didn't know where to start: register for the free Extension Ecosystem Summit on the 22nd!

To join the fun: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/extension-ecosystem-summit-tickets-1022518730047?aff=oddtdtcreator

Watch Chris Ellis’s (@intrbiz) talk for #PosetteConf 2024 about “Even JSONB In Postgres Needs Schemas” 🐘
https://youtu.be/F6X60ln2VNc?si=ah_3Y9gSb2rG0DaY
#postgres #databases #OpenSource #community

Weekend of running the UKs largest free-culture un-conference? Done.

A year of planning culminated in 200+ likeminded people, 40+ talks, an amazing crew, friends old and new and of course, Pete the disco pigeon!

Now time to hang up my organising hat and head home. Until next time!

https://ogg.camp/

#oggcamp

That's a wrap for another year! Special thanks to crew, organisers and sponsors for helping make it happen. Keep following for updates on how OggCamp-next is shaping up! #oggcamp #overandout

Can anyone recommend a *free* RSS to email newsletter service?

I have about 1,000 subscribers on JetPack and, due to the #WPDrama, I've removed the plugin.

I basically want to give a service an RSS feed & a list of email addresses, and have it deliver them an email whenever the RSS feed updates.

I'm currently considering https://follow.it and https://www.beehiiv.com/ - but any *personal* recommendations welcome.

@openrightsgroup thanks for being an important part of our event!

We are at #oggcamp2024 today in Manchester. If you are about, come along and say hello at our stall. You can join us at https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/

Thinking of submitting a talk at @oggcamp called *ask me anything about my (linux) @frameworkcomputer "

Anyone be interested?

#manchester #geek #oggcamp

Are you going to #oggcamp ? We are.

If you’re a listener, come and get a little sticker from @marxjohnson @wimpy or @popey by uttering the magic phrase:

“Linux Matters is my favourite podcast”.

Easy!