Scotland raised its top income tax rate to 48% to make the rich pay more. New HMRC data suggests the result may have been the opposite: Scotland collected about £22m less. We can't be sure, but Scotland may have fallen over the Laffer curve. 🧵:

Probably the best-sounding vinyl I have, from 1979 😉👌 What a record from YMO! #YMO #Vinyl #YellowMagicOrchestra

$AI_COMPANY said the $ROGUE_INCIDENT was an "unprecedented anomaly" caused by $UNFORTUNATE_CIRCUMSTANCES, assuring users they are robustly reinforcing their guardrails. #ThisIsOurLifeNow #NewsAt11 #WorkingAsIntended #ThisIsFine #AI

Great #InfoSec and #KnowledgeSharing blog post by Athanasios Kostopoulos on asking masters of their craft one question: "Share the top 3 resources for your domain of expertise." Fellow IT professionals, what would your top 3 resources be in your area of expertise? akostopoulos.blog/2026/07/20/w...

What are your top three resources?

Sometimes I get lucky and get access to certain people that I consider exceptional masters of their craft. If you have one question and you need to make it count, what would this question be? The o…

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Have you ​ever wanted to converse with a #book? You can't, but the next best thing is having the author explain it to you live. Join me tomorrow at 10am ET/3pm BST on LinkedIn Live and find out what to do when a bad #database lands in your vicinity. 🔗 hubs.la/Q04pGkS_0 #PostgreSQL #Postgres

New blog post: #PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY is elegant and lightweight. It can also quietly bring a busy database to its knees. In my #POSETTE and PG DATA talk I dig into a real production incident and the fix that got us out of it. vyruss.org/blog/listen-... #Postgres #PGDATA2026 #POSETTEconf

LISTEN Carefully: How NOTIFY Can Trip Up Your Database

My POSETTE 2026 and PG DATA 2026 talk on how PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY can quietly bottleneck a high-throughput database, and how to fix it with unlogged queue tables, advisory locks, and batching.

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Most bad SQL never throws an error. It just returns the wrong result, or runs far slower than it should, and slips straight through code review into production. The recording of my April LinkedIn Live on fixing bad SQL in #PostgreSQL is now up. vyruss.org/blog/linkedi...

I was recently interviewed and quoted in The Read Replica regarding #PostgreSQL issues in production. www.thereadreplica.com/news/agent-w... #Postgres #Database

LISTEN/NOTIFY is elegant—but NOTIFY takes a cluster-wide exclusive lock that can cause timeouts under high concurrency. In Jimmy Angelakos’ @vyruss.org POSETTE 2026 talk you'll learn about this feature, its risks, & how to mitigate them. 📺Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVsU... #PosetteConf

Taking over a chaotic database is stressful, but it doesn't have to be a nightmare 😵‍💫. Let's map out how to assess it & target improvements! 🛟 🗓️ Fri, Jul 17 | 10am ET/3pm BST Grab your spot: www.linkedin.com/events/whatt... #PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #OpenSource #Book

A recap of our @PostgresEDI July meetup: Pat Wright on speaking and community involvement for the introvert, and Martins Otun on traceable, SQL-first retrieval for compliance-critical AI systems vyruss.org/blog/postgre... #PostgreSQL #Postgres #Edinburgh #OpenSource #TechMeetups #Database

PostgresEDI July 2026 Meetup — Public Speaking, AI Compliance

A recap of our July meetup: Pat Wright on speaking and community involvement for the introvert, and Martins Otun on traceable, SQL-first retrieval for compliance-critical AI systems.

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🚨 Deal of the Day July 8th 🚨 Mistakes...and how to avoid them! HALF OFF my book PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them and other selected titles @manning.com: hubs.la/Q03Nc0hv0 #Postgres #PostgreSQL #TechBooks #Sale #Books

Only 2 days to the Edinburgh #PostgreSQL meetup with @postgresedi.bsky.social! Join our local #community for pizza, networking & great talks by Pat Wright on tech speaking for introverts & Martins Otun on #AI retrieval w/pgvector in regulated industries RSVP here: lu.ma/ocnyugns #Meetups #Postgres

PostgreSQL Edinburgh Meetup July 2026 · Luma

Be part of our Edinburgh PostgreSQL Meetup! Join the PostgreSQL Edinburgh organisers and fellow PostgreSQL enthusiasts at Room 1.37, Paterson's Land,…

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@manning.com's Independence Day #Sale is live (July 1-5)! 🎆 New deals unlock and stack daily: July 1: 50% off eBooks July 2: +50% off Print July 3: +$10 liveProjects/Videos July 4: +$199.99 Pro Sub July 5: +20% off Teams Grab a copy of #PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: hubs.la/Q03Nc0hv0

News: pgEdge Announces ColdFront for PostgreSQL, Seamlessly Uniting AI, Analytical and OLTP Workloads https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgedge-announces-coldfront-for-postgresql-seamlessly-uniting-ai-analytical-and-oltp-workloads-3325/ #postgresql

"High-functioning" often just means your struggles don't inconvenience others. It involves a dangerous magic trick: cannibalizing your personal life to fuel #success at #work. It's an unsustainable trade-off and reality finally catches up in the form of burnout #AuDHD #Autism #ADHD #Neurodiversity

Our next meetup is Thurs 9th July! We have two fantastic talks. Doors and pizza from 6pm. Talks from 7pm. - Pat Wright. Speaking and Community Involvement for the Introvert - Martins Otun. Traceable, SQL-First Retrieval for Compliance-Critical Systems luma.com/ocnyugns #Edinburgh #PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL Edinburgh Meetup July 2026 · Luma

Be part of our Edinburgh PostgreSQL Meetup! Join the PostgreSQL Edinburgh organisers and fellow PostgreSQL enthusiasts at Room 1.37, Paterson's Land,…

luma.com

Proud to share what I've been building: #pgEdge ColdFront is live. ​Moving #PostgreSQL data to #S3 while keeping it queryable & updatable as if local, without app code changes, is exactly the hard problem I enjoy. ​Under the hood: hubs.la/Q04lS0fb0 #Postgres #Analytics #LLM #AI #ApacheIceberg

Next at #PosetteConf Livestream 4 (18 Jun): Jimmy Angelakos @vyruss.org (PostgreSQL contributor) presents "LISTEN Carefully: How NOTIFY Can Trip Up Your Database" and why NOTIFY can cause timeouts. Join live to chat with Jimmy in the virtual hallway track on Discord. posetteconf.com

Tomorrow’s the day. Come prepared with any issues that you’re having with Postgres and we’ll try to find solutions as a group.

PostgresEDI@postgresedi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us next Thursday, 11th June, for the Edinburgh PostgreSQL meetup! All levels welcome. Room 1.21, Paterson's Land, University of Edinburgh. - 6 to 7pm for pizza and networking - 7 to 8:40pm workshops and presentations - 8:45pm onwards, social time at The Canon's Gait luma.com/cnygmdv1

Shaun Thomas shows how easy (?) it is to create a #PostgreSQL extension at PG DATA 2026! #Postgres #PGDATA2026 #extensions #OpenSource #Database

Henrietta Dombrovskaya @hettied.bsky.social talking #Postgres #security at PG DATA 2026! #PostgreSQL #OpenSource #Database #PGData2026

Nida Fatima now presenting how to work with graph-like data in #Postgres, at PG DATA 2026 #Chicago! #PostgreSQL #OpenSource #GraphDatabase #PGData2026

@PG-DATA.bsky.social #Chicago kicking off! #PGData2026 #PostgreSQL #Postgres #OpenSource #Database #Conference

Speaking this Friday at @pg-data.bsky.social #Chicago! Join me to explore yet another PostgreSQL Mistake 😉: how LISTEN/NOTIFY can trigger locks & timeouts at scale, and how to fix it. 🎟️ 50% off code ANGELAKOS50: 2026.pg-data.org #PostgreSQL #PGData #PGData2026 #Postgres #OpenSource #Database

LISTEN/NOTIFY is elegant—but NOTIFY grabs a cluster-wide exclusive lock that can cascade into timeouts under high concurrency. Jimmy Angelakos, (@vyruss.org) PostgreSQL Contributor, shares a real-world fix at POSETTE 2026 Watch Livestream 4, Thu 18 Jun posetteconf.com/2026/talks/l... #PosetteConf

The solution to Postgres TDE: Add an initdb flag that makes the server refuse to start unless the disk is encrypted (There, I fixed it.) Read Shaun Thomas's exquisite blog post for the setup to the joke: hubs.la/Q04hHc150 #PostgreSQL #Postgres #TDE #Encryption #Database #OpenSource

Yesterday I delivered a Lightning Talk at #PGConfdev on a surprising #PostgreSQL misstep. Luckily, my book PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them is included in the @manning.com Memorial Day sale so you can get it for 50% off until May 25th!😉 👇 hubs.la/Q03Hcbkj0 #Books #Sale #TechBooks #Postgres

Good morning with one more statistic from our @pgconf.dev session 2026.pgconf.dev/session/635 — thanks to Tom Lane for suggesting this query: Do contributors return (based on whether they got any patches accepted or not)? #PostgreSQL #Postgres #Dev #Development #PGConfdev

A special 30 Years of PostgreSQL retrospective at #PGConfdev 2026: (front row, left to right) Jonathan Katz, Jan Wieck, Thomas Lockhart, Jolly Chen, & Melanie Plageman (back row) Bruce Momjian, Vadim Mikheev, & Tom Lane