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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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?
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CloudNativePG @cloudnativepg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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?
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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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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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?
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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
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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It's going to be one of those days
Barbie jamming to herself happily in her car. Suddenly, Ken sits up in the back seat, surprising her and they both scream
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Apache Software Foundation (The ASF) @apache.org · 10/02/2026
📣 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
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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 11/02/2026
Thousand Yard Mansplain Stare
Painting of a woman sitting on a bench looking into the distance while a man with a big beard rests on the bench behind her, his head turned towards her
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Superbowl is American Eurovision.
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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-...
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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...
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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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
EDB group photo: Jonathan Gonzalez, Floor Drees, Boriss Mejias, Devrim Gunduz, Jonathan Battiato, Loreta Ozolina, Peter Eisentraut, Andreas Scherbaum, Bruce Momjian, Alvaro HerreraJonathan Battiato in front of his slides, presentationDevrim Gunduz in front of a large audience for his lightning talkFloor Drees and Jonathan Gonzalez on stage in front of a seated audience for their lightning talk
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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We had an amazing time at #FOSDEM, learning and presenting. Just a few photo impressions:
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
At the Community devroom (UB5.230) most all day like every year #FOSDEM @fosdem.org
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FOSDEM @fosdem.org · 31/01/2026
For speakers who gave their talk, you should have received a mail with the link to review your recording. We encourage you to perform the review, the sooner it gets reviewed, the sooner it gets published on the site!
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#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)
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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)
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Very emotional @fosdem.org opening by @richih.bsky.social "if we lose our democracies, open source is irrelevant and we lose" 💔
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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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 🚀
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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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Jimmy Angelakos @vyruss.org · 29/01/2026
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
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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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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Don't text and grate.
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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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...
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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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Celeste Horgan @celestehorgan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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
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Zig 🪩 @zig.computer · 13/01/2026
If I came back from the dead as a supervillain, my catch phrase would be ‘’’circling back’’’ as I lumber into frame
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Procrastinating on a conference submission for absolutely no valid reason - @uncanny.bingo has a unique way of encouraging me to get on with it
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I met with a guy today who I haven't seen in 20 years. What a bizarro "catch-up".
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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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Kellogg's | See You in the Morning
YouTube video by Kellogg's UK & Ireland
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Very happy with Karen Riggs, Semab Tariq, and Gary Evans joining the PostgreSQL Community Code of Conduct Committee: www.postgresql.org/about/news/w...
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Welcoming three new members to the PostgreSQL Community Code of Conduct Committee
The PostgreSQL Community Code of Conduct Committee welcomes three new members: **Semab Tariq**, Senior PostgreSQL Consultant at Stormatics, bringing over …
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PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force @pgeudiversity.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
FOSDEM PGDay is giving away 3 tickets for their event to members underrepresented groups in tech 😍 If you were hoping to attend the event on January 30, in Brussels, Belgium, send an application detailing why you want to go to diversity@postgresql.eu before January 9! 2026.fosdempgday.org
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FOSDEM PGDay 2026
FOSDEM PGDay 2026
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I need a hardware exchange table at #FOSDEM I have old phones, webcam, cables looking for a new home but can't be bothered to sell them. @fosdem.org are you doing something like that?
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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
In 2025 we started a program to help colleagues become #PostgreSQL contributors. Manni's manager is responsible for his participation. He assumed that he didn’t have the skills, but taught himself C in his spare time. When nominations opened, she encouraged him: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/postgre...
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PostgreSQL Contributor Story: Manni Wood
Earlier this year we started a program (“Developer U”) to help colleagues who show promise for PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. Manni's manager is responsible for his participation in…
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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Internally we run a program to help colleagues who show promise for #PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. In the past years Mario Gonzalez worked on edb-python, Barman and repmgr. Now he's adding PostgreSQL to that list: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/postgre...
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PostgreSQL Contributor Story: Mario Gonzalez
Earlier this year we started a program (“Developer U”) to help colleagues who show promise for PostgreSQL Development to become contributors.
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
So excited for the freshly recognised #PostgreSQL contributors, and my joining the committee is now official: www.postgresql.org/about/news/n...
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New PostgreSQL Contributors December 2025
The [PostgreSQL Contributors Page](https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/) includes people who have made substantial, long-term contributions of time and effort to the PostgreSQL project. ...
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Internet! Cleaning out the house. WTH is this? Context: it was with the electronics & user manuals...
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Friends in the Netherwebs: where can I still get chocolade kruidnoten? I've got people relying on supply...
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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Earlier this year we started a program (“Developer U”) to help colleagues who show promise for PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. Meet: Staff SDE Nishant Sharma. Growing up his interest was in construction. He jokes that now he constructs software: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/postgre...
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PostgreSQL Contributor Story: Nishant Sharma
Earlier this year we started a program (“Developer U”) to help colleagues who show promise for PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. Meet: Nishant Sharma, Staff SDE, who maintains a list of…
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PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force @pgeudiversity.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Nordic PGDay is giving away a ticket to a member of an underrepresented group in tech. If you were hoping to attend the event on March 24, in Helsinki, Finland, don’t hesitate to send an application to diversity@postgresql.eu before February 5. Onnea! 2026.nordicpgday.org @nordicpgday.org
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Nordic PGDay 2026
The premier PostgreSQL conference in the Nordic region.
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PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force @pgeudiversity.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
PGDay Paris is giving away 2 tickets for their event to members of underrepresented groups. If you were hoping to attend the event on March 26, don’t hesitate to send an application to diversity@postgresql.eu before February 5. Bonne chance! 2026.pgday.paris @pgday.paris #PostgreSQL
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pgDay Paris 2026
A 1-day PostgreSQL community conference in Paris, France.
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PGDay Lowlands @pgdaylowlands.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
We've published the recordings for this year's PGDay Lowlands for your on-demand viewing pleasure: www.youtube.com/@PGDayLowlan... We'll be back in a new city in 2026. Save the date: September 10, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We're asking people participating in a training program at EDB about their origin story. Meet Bryan Green, working on the Platform Operations team. He's excited about the opportunity to get back to low-level systems programming that captivated him as a kid: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/postgre...
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PostgreSQL Contributor Story: Bryan Green
Earlier this year we started a program (“Developer U”) to help colleagues who show promise for PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. Meet Bryan Green, working on the Platform Operations team…
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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
In this #PostgreSQL 18 Perspectives episode Robert Haas, Martín Marqués, and Israel Barth Rubio discuss how incremental backup matured in PG17 and PG18, how async I/O fuels future performance, and how the Barman team adapts new core features ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=te6q...
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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Earlier this year we started a program (“Developer U”) to help colleagues who show promise for #PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. Vaibhav Dalvi is one of them. Now a Staff SDE, prior to joining EDB in 2018 he had no experience with databases! www.enterprisedb.com/blog/postgre...
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PostgreSQL Contributor Story: Vaibhav Dalvi
Earlier this year we started a program (“Developer U”) to help colleagues who show promise for PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. Meet Vaibhav Dalvi, Staff SDE, who, prior to joining EDB…
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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
November 24, Jeremy Schneider (GEICO Tech) & Leonardo Cecchi (EDB) did a longer version of their #KubeCon NA talk on "Quorum-Based Consistency for Cluster Changes with the CloudNativePG Operator". The recording is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRF0... @cloudnativepg.bsky.social #PostgreSQL
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Leonardo Cecchi & Jeremy Schneider: Quorum-Based Consistency for Cluster Changes with CloudNativePG
Most people don’t think of Postgres in the context of quorum or distributed systems theory but vanilla open source Postgres has supported quorum commits across multiple replicas for almost 10 years…
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EDB @edbpostgres.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Earlier this year we started a program ("Developer U") to help colleagues who show promise for #PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. In the first of the series to be published we meet Akshay Joshi, a Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager at EDB: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/postgre...
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PostgreSQL Contributor Story: Akshay Joshi
Earlier this year we started a program ("Developer U") to help colleagues who show promise for PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. Meet one of the participants: Akshay Joshi, a Principal…
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
On video for a webinar and the kid comes downstairs, his tooth fell out (expected behavior) and there's blood everywhere. What do you do?
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Floor Drees 🌈 @floord.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The call for new members for the PostgreSQL Community Code of Conduct Committee is out 📢 Come work with me on this important group! Here's how to apply: www.postgresql.org/about/news/c...
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Call for new members PostgreSQL Community Code of Conduct Committee
This message is being sent from the Community Code of Conduct Committee, with the approval of the Core Team. As …
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CloudNativePG @cloudnativepg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
November 24, at 18:00 UTC, join for the longer version of Jeremy Schneider's and Leonardo Cecchi's #KubeCon talk "Quorum-Based Consistency for Cluster Changes with the CloudNativePG Operator", virtually: zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/clo... #PostgreSQL #Kubernetes #CNCF
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