Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Some good news to end the year on: Today Christoph Berg emailed to say I am now listed on the official Contributors page for the #PostgreSQL #opensource project!

There are so many ppl in Postgres who have helped me on this 8.5+ yr journey, both inside & outside of #Microsoft. Thank you!

And @alvherre tells me that congratulations are also due to @tchorix, @floord, @intrbiz, & @vyruss. All of whom add so much to the Postgres world.
https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/

Anyone in London, interested in PostgreSQL - come and chat PostgreSQL with like minded people at our London PostgreSQL social get together.

https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/304775898/

Find some great PostgreSQL videos from PGconf.EU 2024 on https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF36ND7b_WU4QL6bA28NrzBOevqUYiPYq and don't forget to subscribe!
#postgresql #database #opensource #athens #speakers #postgres

Another day, another read through a whole-ass design system mired in *custom* "CSS-in-JS" tools that perform like crap. We will be digging out from the React community's lack of understanding about how browsers actually work for at least another decade, I fear.

Christ, this a banger.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/antiquated-react

/cc by @collinsworth

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.

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

1/6

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.”