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Mirela Ardelean @mirelarooug.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The #octemea26 #CASOUG part ends today with the event in Dushanbe @ilmarkerm.eu @nassyambasha.bsky.social Zaheer Syed, Rustam Khodzhaev @oracleace.bsky.social @oracleugs.bsky.social

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Mirela Ardelean @mirelarooug.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today started the first part of #octemea26 with the #CASOUG events. First stop: Bishkek @ilmarkerm.eu @nassyambasha.bsky.social Rustam Khodzhaev, Aynura Zhanuzakova, Zaheer Syed, Oleg Faynitskiy @oracleace.bsky.social @oracleugs.bsky.social

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 11/09/2026

@alexnuijten.bsky.social i hope the photo reminds you the taste again

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 08/09/2026

Ok, now I have spent well over 5 hours on getting TLS working on Oracle 26. I think it is working now. And I'm pretty experienced on TLS, even on Oracle. Will continue with mTLS tomorrow... and then I'll also spend 5 minutes on setting up TLS on Postgres.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 08/09/2026

Measuring PostgreSQL read replica lag (hot standby) with synchronous_commit=remote_write. To estimate the write lag on replica when preparing to turn on pgDog query load balancing. At 1400-1500 write tps, single thread, 60min test run. Need to investigate these tail ends.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 04/09/2026

Database conference has started #POUG2026

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 14/08/2026

Millions for a single flight ticket!

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 04/08/2026

These Brits claim “Uzbek plov” is local Estonian food? Doesn’t it say right in the name that it is Uzbek? youtu.be/usA93ivLMN0?... and coming from unbearable heatwave complaining about rain and cold. And I’ve only watched 2:40 so far.

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Was It Right for Us to Be Treated Like This In Estonia?

YouTube video by Touring With The Kids

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 04/08/2026

aww, thanks headhunder. i think i've been working on that team for over 19 years now.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 26/07/2026

Climate change- southern Western Europe is burning 40+, we in the north have unusually cold summer, like 15-17 and rain

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 26/07/2026

Exceptionally slow coffee machine on Sõru-Triigi ferry, mine took like 1 min. The silent passive aggressive queue forms, the silence and looks… and the next 1 min brew starts.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 17/07/2026

Another unintuitive temporal nugget. Documented ofcourse. EXTRACT() from TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE returns values in UTC!

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 17/07/2026

I so much hate when someone (more managerial) send a page - "I generated this using AI, please fact check it". I always end up deleting all/most of it and rewriting since the information is just wrong and it uses so many words. Huge waste in time and resources.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 16/07/2026

The dreaded PostgreSQL "cached plan must not change result type" and connection pooling (pgBouncer). Looks like I have to build something that notifies pool that DDL has happened and reconnect backends. Or pgDog, but then I have a CREATE ROLE notification problem. Could contribute to pgDog.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 16/07/2026

OAuth and other SSO are great... Until their secrets expire and noone has notified.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 22/06/2026

Cool, managed to find the limit of bigfile tablespace (in 16k block size database). "alter tablespace dw_etl_data maxsize 65t" - ORA-740 datafiue size of xx blocks exceeds maximum file size

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 04/06/2026

Has anyone used Percona MongoDB server? I think they just take MongoDB community edition source and merge their own features on top? I'm just interested in auditing.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 01/06/2026

pgDog deployed to prod... lets see

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 26/04/2026

Amazing, first time I'm seeing "terminate my membership" is selected as default and one click was enough.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 18/04/2026

Quote from a dinner table ”she is my primary key, but I have many foreign keys”

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 14/04/2026

#netflix how does advertising qualify as “legitimate interest“? Haven’t really used Netflix for a while, time to exit?

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 12/04/2026

More and more stuff finding its way to moving boxes and trash. Hardly any space to move in my apartment. #movingSucks

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 07/04/2026

Looks like etcd 3.5.28 breaks patroni - Failed to get list of machines - etcdserver: user name is empty. etcd is authenticated. 3.5.29 does not help, downgrade helps.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 31/03/2026

I saw a table in my old project "dual_replacement" and thought it must be veeery old. Now I see a comment in a view that did not compile anymore "Here it uses dual_replacement because since 19c it seems that when doing DML against view it checks that all referred tables have write privileges"

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 30/03/2026

Amusement for today, letting LLM to rewrite internal documentation to style mixing Linkedin speak and Shakespeare. "A question worth synergizing upon!" "THE PLOT THICKENS: A STRATEGIC NARRATIVE"

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 27/03/2026

The only thing worth mentioning in the new software version… is “8 new emojis”? 🤦

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 19/03/2026

Dear Microslop, you seem to be pushing the large slop generators everywhere, but could you please add one where is would actually be needed - search in Teams.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 09/03/2026

Haven’t heard that before, approved. ”Now with AI-free commentary” youtu.be/s84W8_VtAOY?...

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Irve @irve.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Ja ühtlasi ka mõnus reklaamvideo pasastaja elukutsest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet Norge

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 24/02/2026

Tomorrow is the day, when my 10+ years long Microsoft Office subscription expires. #excited #microslop

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 22/02/2026

/me survived a 2h Zwift ride

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 22/02/2026

Trying to put bike-fitted measurement on my Cannondale Topstone XL, measurements say hoods to saddle (where width is 80mm) must be 888mm, best i can do is 840mm :( Looks like my only options are Canyon Grizl 7 CL XXL or custom build. Noone else does so crazy reaches.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 15/02/2026

I have reached the ultimate enlightenment #level42

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 11/02/2026

Just funny 🤦‍♂️ "CPUQuota={{ cpu_count*100 }}%" turned into "CPUQuota=5555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555%"

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 10/02/2026

Naming things (databases) - boring or obscure estonian 70-80s cartoon characters?

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 08/02/2026

I was happy to have the seat at the front- until now when the plane that pulls up to the gate is an ATR

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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 05/02/2026

Time to go to the office

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 04/02/2026

So hard to choose a connection pooler for postgres - there is no perfect one. But at the same time - you do need one for large scale deployments. And in addition to product features, also need to consider politics - a mature option is under russian control. pgDog is so close to being perfect, BUT

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 03/02/2026

Had my first bikefit done today, good experience. Now I'll buy a bike based on the recommendations. Good to know, that all is well with the cycling technique.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 30/01/2026

As a cat person, it is emotionally hard to be told that pgCat is EOL and use pgDog.

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Ilmar Kerm @ilmarkerm.eu · 30/01/2026

And no Euro-washing American clouds. Approved by me.

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