Ever since I first played Sid Meier's: Pirates! on Commodore 64, I have loved frigates in this game (in all versions actually) 🫡 And there's nothing I can do about it 🏴‍☠️🦜

Do you know about ttyd? Imagine a web page on your system that reflects the output of any command. So, for example: ttyd ssh vax htop And it will ssh into your VAX, run htop, and display it as a webpage on a port on your localhost:

COBOL is awesome.

SQLite source code. 🫶

MCP Oracle Database Integration: Balancing Opportunity and Risk linkedin.com/pulse/mcp-orac…

Sometime experienced (Oracle) database folks ask me if I know of any good Postgres resources that go beyond just installation guides and config parameter references. This is what I recommend: interdb.jp/pg/index.html

Switch ports can be categorized as trunk or access ports. Trunk ports handle traffic from multiple VLANs, while access ports typically carry traffic for only one VLAN 😎👇 #sysadmin #ccnp Find pdf books with all my #networking related infographics at study-notes.org

🚀 New OSS project released: Oracle MCP! It contains reference implementations of MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers for managing and interacting with Oracle's technologies. Get started: github.com/oracle/mcp #MCP #Oracle #OracleOSS

New Post - change in behaviour with Oracle Statistics when truncating partitions. #oracle #performance #statistics #truncate chandlerdba.com/2025/08/08/ora…

Here is how to read MicroSD card specifications printed on the card label 😎👇 #sdcard #phtotography #raspberrypi #hardware Find high-res pdf books with all my #technology related infographics at study-notes.org

Oracle Exadata Database Machine Technical Architecture diagrams (clickable svg + docs format): docs.oracle.com/en/engineered-… /via Mustafa Can

Were you aware of the two hidden columns in all CDB_* views? If not, then read further since this is super-useful: bsky.app/profile/mikedi… #CDB #PDB #19c #23ai #HiddenColumns #SuperUseful #OracleDBAsRunTheWorld

Scaling Postgres 378 is released! In this episode, we discuss Postgres getting a native column store via an index, faster btree_gift indexes, scaling listen/notify, and a logical replication slot deep dive: scalingpostgres.com/episodes/378-n… #Postgres #PostgreSQL

MySQL's New Storage and Execution Engine: DuckDB​ linkedin.com/pulse/mysqls-n…

You know you're an old school Linux user when... you still try to use `ifconfig` and get a "command not found" error, followed by a moment of silent grief 🤬

A true database problem in the networking world. The BPG routers have close to 1 million rows in their routing tables. Receiving an IP packet must lookup the destination IP address, find all matching networks (apply a bitmask) , pick the lowest cost route to find the next hop

Illumos Cafe Hopes To Reinvigorate Interest In Illumos/OpenSolaris Derived Platforms phoronix.com/news/Illumos-C…