Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

React Native, in a nutshell.

Or to put it a different way: open source maintainers are some of the most verifiably self-taught people in the history of the world, *when they want to be*. Happy to dig into tools, Google, books, mailing list archives, source code, stack traces, whatever. *If they’re motivated and have time for it.*

Saying “what they really need is… an online course” is… actually a tacit admission that what’s actually missing is time and motivation.

I’ve told LF (and others) repeatedly that “education” as the leading point is insulting. Many maintainers know exactly what they need to do, but they lack time and energy for it. Lecturing them, I mean “giving them skills”, is… rarely the need or solution.

But “education” allows LF (and friends like GH) to continue elephant-in-the-room-ing the actual solution, which is paying maintainers for the trillions of dollars of value they create.

https://fosstodon.org/@donmccurdy/113512775802077660

@monsieuricon Konsole ftw.

Next week on 📅 Tuesday 26th, I'll be speaking with @floord at the Data Community #Conference in Bern, Switzerland! We'll be talking about how to work with other people and the #PostgreSQL #community — the context is #MentalHealth and #Neurodiversity in IT and #OpenSource circles.
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🔗 https://www.data-community.ch/

#postgres #database #data

Each #extinction carves a hollow into the heart of the #Earth, a life erased, its wonders unseen, leaving us to mourn what we will never know.

To lose a #species is to lose a world within a world, a singular brilliance extinguished, never again to grace the skies, the seas, or the soil.

Brilliant post by a brilliant page - @samibayly

via earthly education

#SamiBayly #ExtinctionIsForever

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Do not expose PostgreSQL's port 5432 (or whatever you have it listening on) to the public internet.

Just.

Don't.

#Recognition fuels a positive community! Contributor in the Spotlight shines a light on #peoples impact and inspires others to shape the future of #openSUSE and #opensource. Recognize someone who contributed by #supporting our project. https://news.opensuse.org/2024/11/08/project-launches-recognition-platform/

Big news! As you may have seen elsewhere, @Podman_io, Buildah, Skopeo, Podman Desktop, and other container tools are moving to the CNCF! https://blog.podman.io/2024/11/podman-buildah-and-skopeo-and-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation/ #opensource

Podman being donated to the CNCF is an awesome move on Red Hat's part. It's an important step in order for Podman to start becoming an industry standard tool so we can all finally be free of Docker's terrible design choices

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-contribute-comprehensive-container-tools-collection-cloud-native-computing-foundation

#Podman #Linux #redhat #devops

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 .