Who's done a bathroom reno lately and can share the costs x work done with me in DM so I can estimate how many months I'll be surviving on tostis?

We participate in the #SecuritySlam, concluding March 20, just in time for #KubeCon: securityslam.com/slam26/parti... This is not a traditional hackathon. "The Slam" has 5 key objectives that center around the #OpenSSF Open Source Project Security Baseline: securityslam.com/slam26/ Join us?

Security Slam 2026

Whether you're a maintainer, active contributor, interested in making contributions, or simply an end user cheering on the projects you depend on, getting up to speed with the Security Slam is a quick process.

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People with projectors instead of TV (plus-bonus: projecting on a a wall instead of a screen, in a normal sized house), what projector did you get?

Wrote a bit about my FOSDEM PGDay experience. It's always a great start to another year in open source: dev.to/floord/whats... #PostgreSQL @fosdempgday.org

It's going to be one of those days

📣 The Call for Papers is now open for Community Over Code 2026. For the first time ever, CoC will feature Lakehouse Day EU 2026 as a co-located event! 🗓 Submit your talks for either event by March 20 More info 👉 buff.ly/JLac45O #opensource #CommunityOverCode

Thousand Yard Mansplain Stare

Superbowl is American Eurovision.

At #FOSDEM PGDay last week, Jonathan Gonzalez and I presented a lightning talk about how the CloudNativePG project has been flooded with #AI contributions lately, as a way of catharsis. Now available in blog-format: dev.to/floord/open-... @fosdempgday.org @sxd.cl @cloudnativepg.bsky.social

Last weekend at #FOSDEM, @josvanschouten.bsky.social and I spoke in the Community Devroom about something most event organizers hope they’ll never need to deal with: what happens if someone breaks the Code of Conduct? I adjusted the format for blog-consumption: dev.to/floord/what-...

Last weekend I attended @fosdem.org, but because I brought my 11-year old with me, couldn't stick to the murderous schedule I normally have for myself. Thank #FOSDEM for recordings! In case you're interested: my watchlist, ordered by devroom. dev.to/floord/my-fo...

We have quite a few team members in Brussels for FOSDEM PGDay and #FOSDEM. Up in half an hour: Bruce Momjian exploring "what's missing in Postgres?", but we were already on stage a bunch (not just to take the group photo)! @fosdempgday.org @fosdem.org

We had an amazing time at #FOSDEM, learning and presenting. Just a few photo impressions:

People are going to move on, retire, burn out - @clairegiordano.bsky.social at @fosdem.org - was the answer from the #PostgreSQL committers truly "only if you trained a successor you can leave"? Cause even when tongue in cheek... ☠️ #fosdem

At the Community devroom (UB5.230) most all day like every year #FOSDEM @fosdem.org

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#FOSDEM Lightning (Lightning) talks are such a gift. How else would one know about dishwasher salmon? But also: isthatslop.com to detect AI slop (coming soon)

Alya Abbott in "Pull requests maintainers will love to review" talked a bit about AI-generated PRs and how those are not so lovely. Here are the slides for how @sxd.cl and I as @cloudnativepg.bsky.social people are losing time over AI and bots: www.canva.com/design/DAG_5... (script coming)

Proud to have been on the program committee for the Databases devroom #fosdem excited to see Jimmy Angelakos share the stage with my co-org for the AMS DB meetup Daniël van Eeden to talk about compatability in #PostgreSQL and #MySQL Huge and full room, we stand to learn so much from eachother

Michiel Leenaars in his talk at #fosdem: "There is no Claude, just other people's code" (reference: there is no Cloud, just someone else's computer) @fosdem.org

Very emotional @fosdem.org opening by @richih.bsky.social "if we lose our democracies, open source is irrelevant and we lose" 💔

The 15th edition of the EDB Engineering Newsletter is out: edbeng.substack.com/p/edb-engine... We look at the proliferation of vibe citing in academic research, break down code contributions to #PostgreSQL with Robert Haas, and we announce a new PostgreSQL extension for GPU acceleration 🚀

EDB Engineering Newsletter #15

Welcome to the 15th edition of the EDB Engineering Newsletter! Read on to find out what happened in the data world lately, and what we as EDB’s Engineering team have been working on.

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New Blog Post: the much-delayed video of our #pgconfeu panel "How to Work with Other #Postgres People" is finally up—accurate captions and all Super thanks to: @floord.bsky.social @karenhjex.bsky.social Boriss Mejías vyruss.org/blog/panel-d... #neurodiversity #postgresql #community #collaboration

Panel Discussion: How to Work with Other Postgres People — PGConf.EU 2025

Floor Drees, Karen Jex and I led a panel at PGConf.EU 2025 about neurodiversity, teamwork hacks, and how diverse minds collaborate in the PostgreSQL ecosystem. Moderator: Boriss Mejías

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Don't text and grate.

Earlier this year we started a program to help colleagues who show promise for #PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. Florin used to be a chef 👨‍🍳 before pursuing his love for computers and engineering: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/postgre...

PostgreSQL Contributor Story: Florin Irion

Earlier this year we started a program to help colleagues who show promise for PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. In this post we highlight Florin's journey, a Staff SDE at EDB based in…

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Nobody told me I'd be translating the childhood anxiety of whether people would come to my birthday to my adult life in the form of organizing meetups

If I came back from the dead as a supervillain, my catch phrase would be ‘’’circling back’’’ as I lumber into frame

Procrastinating on a conference submission for absolutely no valid reason - @uncanny.bingo has a unique way of encouraging me to get on with it

I met with a guy today who I haven't seen in 20 years. What a bizarro "catch-up".

Posting without unpacking: I had a call with a friend today who mentions he thinks of me every time he sees this commercial with the godzilla rooster. youtu.be/9TraQjzLcSE?...

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