Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
Joined Nov 2022
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🗣️ We’re looking for volunteers for the PGConf.EU 2025 Talk Selection Committee!
Interested? Email contact@pgconf.eu by 16 June with:
• Name
• Company affiliation (if any)
• Area of PostgreSQL interest/expertise
• Previous selection committee experience
We’d love to hear from you!
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Across the world, right now, billionaires, oligarchs, and corporations are using their wealth to silence dissent, undo decades of social and environmental progress, and manipulate the game in their favour.
It's #TimeToResist the billionaire takeover.
Join us! 👉 https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/time-to-resist/
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🎉 Join (@karenhjex@mastodon) Karen Jex at #PosetteConf Livestream 3️⃣ to learn about skills, tools and techniques for managing #Postgres at scale. ⚖️ 🐘
https://posetteconf.com
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👋 Join Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) at #PosetteConf Livestream 3 to learn how to have fun with UUIDs 🎈 ☀️
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This week on Tue/Wed/Thu Jun 10-12 is @posetteconf, a free & virtual developer conference with 4 livestreams, 42 talks about Postgres, & a live hallway track on Discord 📺
If you use #PostgreSQL 🐘 there's probably something here for you: https://posetteconf.com/2025/schedule/
🧵(1) A quick story on why #PosetteConf matters (and why virtual conferences matter) 👇
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This 4th year of the virtual @posetteconf will have:
💥 45 a-ma-zing speakers from 21 companies
📺 4 livestreams
✅ 42 #PostgreSQL talks
💬 Live virtual hallway track on Discord
The 2 keynotes are by brilliant speakers Bruce Momjian & Charles Feddersen
+ 18 talks about the Postgres core
+ 12 Postgres ecosystem talks
+ 10 talks about Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Hope to see you—or your Postgres database friends—at #PosetteConf
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⏰ The countdown begins! 5️⃣ days until the 2025 version of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres begins. Have you saved the date? 🗓️
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Submission deadline for community projects on Tuesday before #PGConfEU is next week! Get your ideas and proposals in!
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For most of the past decade, the Chromium animation team in Google's Waterloo office has gotten an earful from me about about how the we *had* to get to a point where scroll-based animations were not only possible, but reliably offloaded to the compositor.
And they did it, despite *constant* stop-energy from Apple (who still can't do <body> scrolling right 🙄). The results speak for themselves:
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Tonight we are cheating.
Bought this marinated at the store
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What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive
“The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user’s surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one’s pocket or on one’s desk, and will be a third core device a person would put on a desk after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone.”
OpenAI looking at Microsoft Recall and thinking “consumers love the idea! Let’s make something that records everything you do!” is pretty funny.
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Incredible (but predictable) : #Microsoft has blocked the International Criminal Court's access (#ICC) to its services on the orders of the #Trump mafia.
Read that carefully : an international organisation that has no presence in the United States and no US legal rights has had its work tools blocked simply because it disagrees with the Trump administration. 🚩
Get the hell out of it right now.
› https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3
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Now presenting at #PGConfdev, Karen Jex of Crunchy Data is giving an update about the #PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force, to help people understand what’s happening (and what you can do to help)
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🌐 Join from Anywhere! POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 is timezone-friendly, easy to access, and totally free. #PosetteConf 🆓 4 livestreams. 42 unique talks. 45 amazing speakers.
Join the fun: https://posetteconf.com/2025/
Last chance to get your idea for a talk submitted for pgDay UK 2025.
CfP closes midnight BST today!
So there has never been a better time to throw your hat in the ring.
All you need is a title and short description.
The pgDay UK 2025 Call For Papers is still open, closing Monday 12th May.
So still time to submit your idea for a talk!
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Welcome Nexteam as a Benefactor sponsor of PGDay UK 2025 in London! https://2025.pgday.uk/sponsors/ #postgres #pgdayuk #london #opensource #database
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
Joined Nov 2022
