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Openclaw is Spam, Like Any Other Automated Email
Open Source communities are trying to quickly adapt to the present rapid advances in technology. I would like to propose some clarity around something that should be common sense. Automated emails are spam. They always have been. Openclaw (and whatever new thing surfaces this summer) is no different. Policies saying automated emails/messages are banned – … Continue reading
The Scott Shambaugh Situation Clarifies How Dumb We Are Acting
Edit: related blog published Feb 22 – Openclaw is Spam, Like Any Other Automated Email My personal blog here is dedicated to tech geek material, mostly about databases like postgres. I don’t get political, but at the moment I’m so irritated that I’m making the extraordinary exception to veer into the territory of flame-war opinionating… This … Continue reading
Collation Torture Test versus Debian
Collation torture test results are finally finished and uploaded for Debian. https://github.com/ardentperf/glibc-unicode-sorting The test did not pick up any changes in en_US sort order for either Bullseye or Bookworm 🎉️ Buster has glibc 2.28 so it shows lots of changes – as expected. The postgres wiki had claimed that Jessie(8) to Stretch(9) upgrades were safe. … Continue reading
Major Developments in Postgres Extension Discovery and Distribution
PostgreSQL “extensions” are a big part of what makes this database special. The developers building the core Postgres database are amazing. But many people don’t realize just how much of a “data platform” Postgres is (borrowing this phrase from something Craig Kerstiens recently posted online) and just how decentralized the development is for PostgreSQL’s capabilities. … Continue reading
Seattle PostgreSQL Meetup This Thursday: New Location
I’m looking forward to the Seattle PostgreSQL User Group meetup this Thursday (June 20, 2019) at 5:30pm! We’re going to get an early sneak peek at what’s coming later this year in PostgreSQL’s next major release. The current velocity of development in this open source community is staggering and this is an exciting and valuable … Continue reading
PostgresConf 2019 Summary
PostgresConf 2019 in New York City is a wrap! Now that I’ve had a few days to recover a little brain capacity, I think I’m ready to attempt a summary. I love conferences for the learning opportunities… inside of sessions and also outside of them. Being the largest PostgreSQL-centered conference in the United States, PostgresConf … Continue reading
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