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Why and how did Microsoft create VS Code? The actual story is amusing because creating VS Code was seen as the least important decision across 3 bold "bets". Scott Guthrie (who heads up Cloud + AI at Microsoft) recalls below. Watch / listen: youtu.be/lDfjPEA4BUM (cont'd)

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🐘 Want to know how something could or might go wrong? Ask #PosetteConf speaker Robert Haas, that's his superpower! ⚡ Learn more about Robert and get some tips for first-time speakers: posetteconf.com/speakers/rob... #postgresql #databases #OpenSource #community

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Gift link to a must-read from my colleagues. "I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled," said Eden Tanner, who lost a grant to work on a new glioblastoma treatment. "I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial."

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Good morning ☕️

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Slow Horses (Apple TV+) is coming back! 🍿 www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

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Trump administration ending multiple HIV vaccine studies, scientists and officials say - CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

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Risks of bird flu are real. We can’t bury our heads in the sand, even for the love of ostriches. We’re being bamboozled by a small group of zealots who think laws - and science - don’t apply to them, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @theglobeandmail.com #H5N1

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🧊 Do you know #PosetteConf speaker @philippemnoel.bsky.social's (Philippe Noël) favorite icebreaker at #Postgres events? Spoiler--he doesn't have one! 🐘 But he shares more fun facts at: posetteconf.com/speakers/phi... #postgresql #databases #OpenSource #community

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I've been turning over my use LLMs as a "thought partner" for quite some time, and it captured my attention when I encountered this piece & listened to the podcast episode of the same name (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5... ). I see @itaiyanai.bsky.social shared a very similar thought 2 months ago!

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Next week, #PosetteConf will happen Jun 10-12. Free & virtual If you want help navigating the 4 livestreams & 42 #PostgreSQL talks at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres (& to figure out the virtual hallway track), this ultimate guide post should do the trick techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/ADforPo...

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“Our project was awesome. It was part of the largest investment the National Institutes of Health had ever made in TB. It was honestly the most satisfying science I’ve ever been a part of because it was really working.” But now, “all the data and knowledge” her team has gathered “is gone”.

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Good afternoon ☕️

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🦆 Nitin Jadhav's favorite #Postgres extension is pg_duckdb, but he's not talking about that at #PosetteConf. 🐘 Discover what he IS talking about and more about him at: posetteconf.com/speakers/nit... #postgresql #databases #OpenSource #community

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There was some review of hospital injury/death cases, and ~holding things while walking on stairs~ causes super-dramatic risk. I recently had a close-call on my own stairs after hurting my foot, somehow I kept up with the misplaced feet to save myself. It sounds dumb but Jesus Christ.

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Was Git built in 10 days? Linus Torvalds tells us the real story. 👀 Watch the full interview in honor of Git's 20th anniversary here.👇 github.blog/open-source/...

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Some interesting insights here, including that people are much more influenced by people they follow switching platforms than by their own followers switching platforms. Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801

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I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

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Good afternoon ☕️

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The Game Boy Camera was released on this day in North America, 27 years ago (1998)

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Thinking about the victims, their families, and the Boulder Jewish community as we wait to learn more about what the FBI has called a targeted terror attack. Antisemitic hate and violence must have no safe harbor in America.

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wtaf - this nation is deranged

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Good afternoon. ☕️

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Marilyn Monroe, born 99 years ago today. When Ella Fitzgerald couldn’t get booked at the Mocambo Club because she was Black, Monroe (at the height of her own fame) called the owner and told him if he booked Ella, she would take a front table every night. And she did. #RIP

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💥 "I've been considered a company hero one time just because I managed to run an unscheduled vacuum that fixed production query latency," says #PosetteConf speaker Jimmy Zelinskie. Learn more about Jimmy. 🦸‍♂️ posetteconf.com/speakers/jim... #postgres #databases #OpenSource #community

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♟️ If you've ever met Derk van Veen you know he always has a chessboard in hand. Find out more about Derk and why he chose to talk about #Postgres partitioning at #PosetteConf 2025.🐘 🧩 posetteconf.com/speakers/der... #postgres #databases #OpenSource #community

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Elon Musk is now trying to claim he doesn’t do drugs. Here’s our response @nytimes.com

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R&R. Much needed.

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Back in the end of May, I spent way too long on a weekend building my own analytics system for my website. You shouldn't do this, it's not a good use of time, but you may still like reading about it! (it's using Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, MaxMind, etc.) www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/homegro...

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