Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

🎉 The shiny new PGConf.EU badges are fresh off the press!

Bold and beautiful — they’ve got everything you’ll need at the conference: links to submit feedback (and win Slonik’s belt 🐘🏆), plan your talk schedule, connect via social channels, and reach our CoC contact.

💬 Safe travels to everyone making their way to Riga in the coming days!

#PGConfEU #PostgreSQL #PostgresCommunity #OpenSource #ConferenceSwag

🇱🇻 Did you know our PGConf.EU Slonik has a new look?
This year, he’ll be wearing a Lielvārdes josta — a traditional Latvian woven belt symbolising strength and heritage.

The design, created by local artist Megija Baumane, inspired both our conference logo and visuals.

Share your feedback during the conference for a chance to win Slonik’s belt — the winner will be announced at the closing ceremony!
#PGConfEU #PostgreSQL #Latvia #Community

We’re excited to announce our #PGConfEU 2025 keynote speaker — Karen M. Sandler, attorney and Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy!

In her talk “The Foundation of Open Source: Why Software Freedom?” Karen will explore why software freedom is essential to modern computing and everyday life — and why it’s the cornerstone of open source projects like PostgreSQL.

📅 Don’t miss it — join us in Riga next week!
#PostgreSQL #PGConfEU #OpenSource #SoftwareFreedom

🎙️ New #TalkingPostgres #podcast Ep32 just published!

Boriss Mejías @tchorix of EDB explored the Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things as a methodology for working with Postgres—& we connected lots of things, from WAL files to jazz to database modeling to synchronous replication and OpenAI

Boriss is a fabulous human & it was such a happy thing that he joined me on this podcast episode! I am happy with the conversation & I hope y'all are too!

Listen wherever you get your podcasts—and tell your #database & #OpenSource & #Postgres friends!
🎧 https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/the-fundamental-interconnectedness-of-all-things-with-boriss-mejias
📺 https://youtu.be/S63usJYcw-k?si=ampjlwAdhptd7wp_

I had a lot of fun talking to you Claire. Thanks for the invitation. I also wrote something about what inspired this topic https://dev.to/bmejias/how-i-learned-to-embrace-my-chaotic-brain-4m3e
I hope the episode is useful to #PostgreSQL folks and anyone actually.

Join us for a Postgres Women Breakfast https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2025/news/join-us-for-a-postgres-women-breakfast-193/

+ btw this is how they’re talking in DHH’s official Omarchy discord.

They fully know what it’s all about. There’s no ambiguity here.

🌻 Thanks to the incredible work of the PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Committee, we’re now an official member of the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower!

Together, we’re building a community where everyone feels seen, valued & supported.
Learn more: https://hdsunflower.com/row/insights/post/postgresql-conference-europe

The Sunflower is a simple way to say: “I may need a little more time, space, or understanding today.”

#Inclusion #Accessibility #PostgreSQL

🥐 Join us for a Postgres Women Breakfast at #PGConfEU 2025! 🐘

📅 Oct 23, 7-9 AM
📍 TRIBE Riga City Centre Hotel 🇱🇻
👥 Limited to 40 spots
⏰ Register by Oct 15, 12:00 CEST

Connect with women in the #PostgreSQL community over breakfast!

Register at https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2025/register/#signups

@slightlyoff

THIS NEEDS TO BE A THING:

Fingerprint login for your phone, that, when a pre-selected finger is used, completely wipes the phone.

#infosec

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

#onlinesafetyact #wtf #wetoldyouso

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/09/hack-age-verification-firm-discord-users-id-photos

Happening Wed Oct 8, a LIVE recording of the #TalkingPostgres podcast with amazing guest @tchorix of EDB, to talk about #PostgreSQL & The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things

Join Discord to be part of the parallel live text chat—or listen once Talking Postgres Ep32 is published on Friday (we always publish this monthly pod on a Friday...)
https://aka.ms/talkingpostgres-ep32-cal

Tell your database friends! Or your Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy friends... #OpenSource #podcast #Postgres #database

I don't like the phrase "Technical Debt". It's effectively lost all meaning.

I always need to ask, "what about it is technical debt?"

I've gotten a variety of responses:
- the abstractions are wrong
- the performance is bad
- the technology is out of date
- it's undocumented
- I don't know the tech

That last one in particular when someone told me, "It's technical debt because I don't know the tech," is when I knew the phrase had lost all meaning.

📅 Mark your calendars!
POSETTE 2026 is coming June 16–18!
POSETTE: An Event for Postgres is a virtual celebration of PostgreSQL with dozens of talks plus lots of learning and community connection.

https://posetteconf.com/2026/

#PosetteConf #postgresql #databases #OpenSource #community

Those of you who are software engineers (not software engineering managers) and have daily standups: who wants those?

A — I do.
B — I don't, but the majority of my team does.
C — Nobody in our team does, but our manager wants them.
D — Nobody wants them, not even our manager, but we must have them per organisational policy.

(Boosts for reach much appreciated.)

UK petition: " Do not introduce Digital #IDcards " - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194 currently close to 1.65 million signatures; let's get it to 2 million today, please sign if you can... #privacy #surveillance

My view - saying the recent incidents should be a wake up call isn’t moving the needle enough in business.

So a lever is, if JLR need bailing out, put the PM on TV to announce it, explain why and the context of attacks on UK institutions, and announce paying all extortion attempts will be outlawed by the end of parliament. It would send shockwaves through business and force real resiliency planning.