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What Makes a Great KotlinConf Proposal?
The KotlinConf 2027 Call for Papers is open, and the post offers guidance for crafting a strong proposal, emphasizing that a valuable talk can come from a simple lesson learned rather than a groundbreaking discovery. Reviewers first notice the overall care, including a clear title and focused abstract, and they can detect AI-generated content, so authenticity and a personal voice are crucial. A good proposal starts with a central story that identifies a problem, what was tried, and what was learned, even from a small project, and it should be tested with colleagues. The title should communicate the topic and benefit, avoiding vagueness, while the abstract should provide two to three paragraphs of meaningful detail that outline the talk’s journey and include concrete takeaways. The post advises choosing the right format between lightning and regular sessions, and reviewing the proposal for clarity and authenticity before submitting.
How we made the Supabase Select 2026 badge
Supabase gave every Select 2026 attendee a programmable badge based on the Pimoroni Tufty 2350, with an RP2350 microcontroller, color screen, rechargeable battery, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and five buttons. A firmware bug drained all batteries during shipping, requiring bulk charging with 30-port USB hubs in 14 batches over 56 hours and individual firmware updates. The venue Wi-Fi failed, so the schedule was synced via a hotspot, two badges at a time, one minute each, totaling seven hours. Attendees have since repurposed the badge into projects including a live flight tracker, an arcade game about database vacuuming, a food finder app, a music note collection game, and a tiny on-device language model. The post provides resources for hacking the badge: a first-app guide, a Claude Code project kit, a virtual badge, guides for C or Rust firmware, and a contest with Supabase credits and conference passes.
🗽 Postgres Summit US 2026 retrospective
ClickHouse sponsored Postgres Summit US 2026 in New York City, where David Wheeler presented “Postgres in da ClickHouse” on integrating Postgres and ClickHouse for OLTP and OLAP workloads. He demoed four technologies: pg_stat_ch for query metrics, pg_clickhouse for querying ClickHouse from Postgres (pushing down 16 of 22 TPC-H queries and supporting nearly all Postgres data types), chdb_hook for efficient data lake file import/export via COPY (outperforming similar extensions), and WalShadow for sub-second physical replication. Other sessions covered pg_plan_advice in Postgres 19, index prefetching for Postgres 20, open source CDC plugins, and a graveyard of technologies that failed to “kill” SQL. Wheeler also attended talks on Postgres replication, African Postgres communities, and CloudNativePG extensions. The conference marked ClickHouse’s first Postgres conference sponsorship, with plans to sponsor PGConf.EU in Valencia.
Content and Community Basics for JetBrains Content Creators
The post covers community-building basics for JetBrains Content Creators in a golden age of digital creation with high demand and AI adoption, accepting new creators daily. Creators should include the JetBrains promotional discount code in video descriptions, with an example offering 20% off for new and existing subscriptions, and they can explore all JetBrains IDEs through the All Products Pack to diversify their workflow. Maintaining active social media is essential for distribution, and the program supplies news-worthy items like merch drops and IDE updates for creators to share with their audience. Staying in touch through communication, challenges, and giveaways is crucial, and the program provides up to twelve free IDE subscriptions per creator for giveaways. Even a simple subscription plus repost formula works effectively, and all new creators are welcome to join the program.
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