Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

🎙️ 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.

The cherry on the top of this story? At the time I was *sitting in the offices of the company acting as my ID provider* trying to design user-centric products for them.

Also in the brief flicker of life of gov.uk Identify, or whatever it was called, I tried to use it to access my driving licence details and it immediately shat itself and *deleted my entire identity* because of the apostrophe in my surname.

I expect a similar quality of execution from Starmer’s Digital ID.

Starmer announcing a mandatory digital ID as though the mythical digital borders ever got built, or indeed even as though the last time GDS tried to build any kind of digital ID system, it didn’t get strangled in the crib by a different government department refusing to play along. He may as well have announced moon marshmallows.