This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

this is gonna work so much better when it's actually inside the car

The WSJ is not targeting the color blind demographic

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

📣 Have a PostgreSQL insight to share? The call for proposals (CFP) for POSETTE: An Event for POSETTE 2026 is OPEN! 🎉 * Free & virtual * June 16–18, 2026 * Organized by the #PostgreSQL team at Microsoft Submit by Feb 1, 2026 → posetteconf.com/2026/cfp/ #PosetteConf #Postgres #CFP

Ich sehe, dass sie sich große Mühe gegeben haben, benutzerfreundlich zu sein, aber leider haben sie das Ziel verfehlt...

I don't always agree with my MP, but today I do. 🏳️‍⚧️ 💔

Pet peeve: sites that timeout on you super fast, after you went away to another tab while waiting for it to (slowly) process your query. I'm looking at you, Cytric. But they're not the only offenders.

Two of my favorite countries being friends. That’s nice. 🍁 🤝 🫎

Ohh, interesting opportunity to be the Head of the Sovereign Tech Fund in Berlin 👀

I'm super excited that #Linux and #opensource are featuring so prominently at #MSIgnite this week... even a few years ago this level of news and activity would have been unimaginable. Today, it's "business as usual" as Linux+OSS are at the heart of our @microsoft.com Azure business. (1/4)

wait, so if you sign up now, you get support that takes you through January 19, 2038... now THAT could be really valuable

sometimes in my head I rerun an alternative history reel of the UK where David Miliband becomes PM

[technical writer hat on] This is an extraordinarily well written deprecation post by @tabbysable.bsky.social! Super clear, provides the kind of high level detail an engineer needs to communicate this change to the higher ups (& why they might need to throw engineering resources at it ASAP), etc.

POSETTE isn't something you wear in your buttonhole, but an awesome PostgreSQL community conference -- and the CFP is now open. You know what you gotta do...

We only introduced azure-vm-utils last year, so it's exciting to see it land in Ubuntu already! ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-...

Hot take: containers running in Kubernetes (+ all it comes with) running on Linux with systemd etc etc. is the very definition of a kludge. I really think @krisnova.net was onto something with Aurae (see www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a27...). Even if that is not The Solution, it's the right direction.

as an industry, we've a long way to go securing all the things. this new zero trust assessment tool will make it easier for everyone. banger.

Yay! Tomorrow, I’ll be traveling on one of the last NightJet services from Berlin to Paris. But rather than being sad for the end of a good thing, I can now celebrate being part of the revival of the route with @europeansleeper.eu ! Love and kudos to the little night train that could :-) 🚂 🛌 🛌 🛌 🛌

Bonjour, bsky hive mind! We are taking offspring #1 to Paris next weekend. Open to any vegetarian restaurant recommendations! (actually pescatarian ok too, but my wife is allergic to fish so can’t be *just* a fishy place).

interviewer: I'd like you to code a sort algorithm

the millennial mind cannot comprehend

ow my eyes! that font, the lack of spacing... just hideous

I'm also a proud REJEKT... sorry to miss all my friends there this time around

happy birthday, nóva ❤️

dear web developers: please strip whitespace from a phone number before validating kthxbye

With career advice from how to approach attending a major conference like KubeCon, to breaking into Big Tech (recruiters don’t want you finding out this one weird trick… or something like that), this episode of Upstream@AKS has something for everyone. Recommended! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkgU...

me: immediately fires up my My John Lewis app

I love discovering little 🇺🇸 vs 🇬🇧 English differences. TIL that "chaise lounge", which I have often heard in the States but always assumed was "stupid Americans messing up a foreign-sounding word", is actually correct US English, whereas "chaise longue" is considered correct in British English.

now do baroness mone

Watching the @github.com Universe keynote, I'm blown away by how GitHub is not just maintaining, but strengthening, its position as the home for modern software development. VS Code as the AI-native editor, embracing the universe of coding agents, all evidence this developer-centric strategy.

#erinnerung (memory / remembrance)

world series, visit to the pumpkin farm, halloween, and soon thanksgiving... this might be the time of year to most miss the US

This is fantastic news. The industry is slowly but surely getting supply chain security in order.

"It's almost time to enter focus mode" -- you can put that on my gravestone. Thanks, Viva Insights.

Excellent thread. "IT literacy" should be about more than learning how to create docs and presentations, safely browse the web, and use ChatGPT ethically.

"Most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification... People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.” - Bertrand Russell

people acting like this is news... here's the green party manifesto from 2024. and, yes, I voted for them because of this (in combination with starmer categorically ruling out not just rejoining the EU, but even the single market, just before the election). still, "independent" won my constituency.

Just realized that OpenStack turned 15 yesterday - the first release was October 21, 2010. HB, @openstack.org!

Are you an aging nerd who learned your trade on the beautiful Common Desktop Environment, struggling to get to grips with the latest in computer user interface design? Rejoice, for CDE runs on Windows! sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopen...

oh crap

A future generation (probably not so far away) will look on us placing workloads in a region like "us-east-1" the same way we look back at the days of apps being run on "ardbeg", the trusty Dell server at the top of rack 1.

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

#hugops to everyone dealing with the fallout from today’s cloud outage. Really underscores the importance of an effective multi-cloud strategy (effective = active/active load balancing) for any high-scale or systemically important operation.

1/Richter Dariusz Lubowski zum deutschen Auslieferungsgesuch: Nord Stream war ein legitimes militärisches Ziel. „Die Zerstörung russischer Gaspipelines und die Entziehung von Milliarden Euro vom Feind durch Deutschland haben eine tiefgreifende militärische Bedeutung, da sie das

DocumentDB is the most exciting development in open source databases for a long while. And there's no chance of the license "bait and switch" as it's in the Linux Foundation. Now that's truly mind-blowing. Check out the Community Office Hours on Discord: discord.com/invite/vH7bY...

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman." This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women." RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

I have no idea what a "pubic hair thong" is, and no desire to find out.