Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

I'm not saying Safari is the new IE6; that would be unfair...to IE6. When it came out, it was world-beating in nearly every regard, but got long in the tooth.

No, Safari is more like IE 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11: predictably disappointing showings thanks to under-funding by an organisation hellbent on holding the web back to defend profits:

https://infrequently.org/2026/07/abject-praise/

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/03/david-potter-the-man-who-put-psion-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-logs-off-at-82/5266624

Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones… and duvets

<- by me on #TheRegister

Smalltalk-80, HyperCard, and Visual Basic 6 were far more compelling "future of programming" attempts than anything available today

Hasn't had much coverage, but David Potter, founder and CEO of Psion, died yesterday. One of the patron saints of alt.fan.pratchett in its early years.

Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/keir-starmer-britain-pharma-deal-covid

UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ on mobile app stores https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/30/uk-apple-google-mobile-app-stores-developers-payment-cma
CMA says developers should be able to steer users away from app stores for payments to increase competition

Postgres has a huge array of features; many can make application development easier and reduce application complexity. In his talk for POSETTE 2026, Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) of Nexteam reviews a range of use cases & PostgreSQL Design Patterns.

📺Watch on YouTube:
https://buff.ly/AYOM2xn

#PosetteConf #PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #Community

Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy

https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf

1. Today, brave brave John Edwards ran away.

To thank the UK Information Commissioner for all the fish, here are FIVE EPIC FAILURES he's made during his tenure. Or, to paraphrase his own words, the five best attempts at humor that were inappropriate.

Thread below 🧵

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eyq7rnn22o

Macron is such a mischievous little bitch he knew exactly what he was doing. I love him.

Don't miss Boriss Mejias (@tchorix) of EDB at #PosetteConf on Livestream 1 (Tue 16 Jun) talking about "JSON in PostgreSQL - evil data type or just needs to be tamed?".

Join live to chat with Boriss in the virtual hallway track on Discord.
https://posetteconf.com

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #Community #JSON #OpenSource

Starting soon at #PosetteConf Livestream 1 on Tue 16 Jun: Tomas Vondra of Microsoft presents "random_page_cost in Postgres - why the default is 4.0 and should you lower it?".

Join live to chat with Tomas in the virtual hallway track on Discord.
https://posetteconf.com

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #Community #Microsoft #OpenSource #DeveloperTools

Happening soon at #PosetteConf Livestream 1 (Tue 16 Jun PDT): Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) of Nexteam on "PostgreSQL Design Patterns" for real-world patterns that simplify app architecture.

Join live to chat with Chris in the virtual hallway track on Discord.
https://posetteconf.

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #Community #OpenSource #Developer

More of this please: https://www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/

Four Palestine Action activists have been sentenced not on the basis of the convictions for criminal damage (through a jury trial) but on the basis their crime *really* was terrorism (a subsequent decision by the presiding judge).

This not only violates the sanctity of jury trials (the jury was not informed of this possibility), it also is a retrospective legal decision, essentially violating the Rule of Law.

Its a direct attack on civil liberties!

#politics #protest
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce950111xk7o

RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116732458668556757

Modern finance is *insane*, and apparently getting even more so. This makes absolutely no sense, surely?

The London PostgreSQL Meetup Group will be hosting its next in person event 2 weeks from today! Join them at The Star of Kings on June 23rd for “Stopping Collations Going Wrong” with Andreas Karlsson and a recap of PGConf DEV with Alastair Turner and Valeria Kaplan.

https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/315092418/?eventOrigin=network_page

#PostgreSQL #postgres

Some politicians in the UK think it is a good idea to introduce identity verification for using VPN services.

It could be that these politicians do not understand what they are proposing. The alternative, that they do understand, would be even worse.

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UK net #migration has dropped to 171,000 for the 2025 calendar year, according to provisional data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This marks a nearly 50% decrease from 2024 and an 82% drop from the record peak in 2023.

Key drivers of the decline:

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