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Google employees are told to expect to work from home for the rest of the year, but a select few will be allowed to return to offices as soon as June

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has told employees to expect to work from home for the remainder of 2020, but will open offices for certain exceptions.





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As PM returns, how long does it take to recover?

Recovery from Covid-19 can be a lengthy process, depending on how seriously people get the virus.




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Coronavirus: Government pledges £76m for abuse victims

Vulnerable children and victims of domestic violence and modern slavery will get extra support.




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Coronavirus: Unions warn over move to increase rail services

Rail union leaders have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with "severe concerns".




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Twycross wants government help to survive coronavirus shutdown

A large zoo says it needs government grants as it has no visitors or income but still has to look after its animals.




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Trade minister Conor Burns resigns over 'veiled threats' in letter

Conor Burns used his position as an MP to intimidate a member of the public, standards watchdog finds.




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Coronavirus: Doctor MP says 'government's lack of testing has cost lives’

Labour's Dr Rosena Allin-Khan questions Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the House of Commons.




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Coronavirus: UK warned to avoid climate change crisis

UK government advisors say post-pandemic recovery funds should go to firms reducing carbon emissions.




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Bank of England warns of sharpest recession on record

Bank head Andrew Bailey tells the BBC there will be no quick return to normality after the hit to jobs and income.




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Slovenia cyclists hold anti-government protest

Thousands accused PM Janez Jansa of using the coronavirus crisis as a pretext to restrict freedoms.




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Magician Roy Horn dies after catching coronavirus

He and his stage partner Siegfried Fischbacher were one of the longest-running acts in Las Vegas.




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Coronavirus: Will offices be safe for a return to work?

Here's a look at some of the technology that might help monitor the health of employees.




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Call for credit card freeze on porn sites

More than 10 leading bodies say porn sites stream content featuring child sexual abuse and sex trafficking.




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Lockdown homeschooling: The parents who have forgotten what they learned at school

Parents have been turning to Google to help them teach the things they’ve forgotten.




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Coronavirus: Teachers warn of early school return 'spike'

Teaching unions across UK and Ireland say test and trace measures must be fully operational before reopening.




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Coronavirus schools return: Can you really keep children 2m apart?

What's it like in a school that has re-opened? Denmark and Germany show how it might look.




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Coronavirus: Concerns for wellbeing of babies born in lockdown

New mothers are missing out on support for their babies amidst lockdown restrictions.




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'Tumbleweed tornado' hits US driver

An eerily beautiful dust devil flings picking up hundreds of tumbleweeds in Washington state.




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The Web We Lost: Luke Dorny Redesign

Like 90s hip-hop, The Web We Lost™ retains a near-mystical hold on the hearts and minds of those who were lucky enough to be part of it. Luke Dorny’s recent, lovingly hand-carved redesign of his personal site encompasses several generations of that pioneering creative web. As such, it will repay your curiosity.

The post The Web We Lost: Luke Dorny Redesign appeared first on Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design.





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An intro to making Postgres high availability on Kubernetes

#351 — April 15, 2020

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Postgres Weekly

A Detailed Look at pg_show_plans — A few issues ago we linked to a basic introduction to pg_show_plans – this goes a little further. pg_show_plans lets you look at the execution plans of slow queries in real time as they’re being executed which can help you when troubleshooting.

Kaarel Moppel

Intersecting GPS Tracks to Identify Infected Individuals — I’m not a huge fan of COVID-19 related content, but this is a pretty interesting technique with numerous use cases. Essentially it uses PostGIS to identify overlapping paths.

Florian Nadler

Online Training: Learn PostgreSQL from Home — The remote PostgreSQL Database Administration training course is available at a discounted rate & will be conducted in two different timezones. The course covers day-to-day DBA operations, monitoring, server configurations, and more.

2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Training sponsor

PostgreSQL's 'Related Projects' — Thanks to Andreas Scherbaum for pointing out a new page on the Postgres site dedicated to projects related to Postgres like the code that runs the Postgres web site, mailing list, build farm, package management system, etc.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Authentication Configuration in Postgres (and CockroachDB) — In Postgres, client authentication can be controlled via a ‘HBA’ (host-based authentication) file. It’s not something we see covered very often, so you might find this interesting, particularly as it compares things against CockroachDB.

Raphael ‘kena’ Poss

▶  Easy And Correct High Availability Postgres with Kubernetes — A 50 minute talk from PostgresOpen 2019 that goes all the way ‘from containers up’ until actually doing stuff with Postgres.

Steven Pousty

How To Set Up an Express API Backend Project With Postgres — A pretty extensive walkthrough of creating an HTTP API using Express with Node.js and Postgres on the backend, then deploying it all on Heroku.

Chidi Orji

A Beginners Guide to Basic Indexing in Postgres

James Bannister

eBook: The Most Important Events to Monitor in Your Postgres Logs — In this eBook, we are looking at the Top 6 Postgres log events for monitoring query performance and preventing downtime.

pganalyze sponsor

Documenting the Citus Extension to Postgres: An Interview with Joe Nelson — Joe, a.k.a. begriffs, talks about why he works on documentation, why the multi-tenant and real-time analytics tutorials matter, the INSERT..SELECT with repartitioning feature, and what development platform Citus uses for docs.

Citus Data (Microsoft)

Procedural vs Query Approaches for Finding Packages — Explorations of a query that can be used to display which packages are available for a given FreeBSD port. Get your head around the data model and the ideas here apply to all sorts of situations.

Dan Langille

???? Upcoming Events

All in-person events we had listed are cancelled or postponed due to the COVID outbreak, so we're now linking to webinars, livestreams, and similar online events.

If you have any, just hit reply and if it's Postgres related (and either free or not too expensive) we'll include it in a future issue. Just one this week:

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???? Seen on Twitter

Saw this tweet and thought it was a pretty neat reminder of the sorts of things we can do with Postgres. Justin kindly let us include it:

Click through to the original tweet if you want to see the code better. Neat use for a generated column!




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Coronavirus: what we can learn from the war generation

What can younger people learn from the generations that lived through World War Two?




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Ex porn-star and activist explores men's rights issues

Philipp travels to a conference on men’s issues in Chicago, shedding light on the controversial movement.




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Dirty streaming: The internet's big secret

Figures suggest that IT now generates as much CO2 as flying, with some arguing it's nearly double.




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Coronavirus: Should maternity and paternity leave be extended?

A petition calling for maternity leave to be extended due to coronavirus has attracted many signatures.




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Coronavirus: São Paulo governor at odds with Bolsonaro

São Paulo Governor João Doria has imposed tough virus curbs, a move slammed by President Bolsonaro.




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2006 Club World Cup Final: Internacional 1-0 Barcelona

Internacional-Barcelona, FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2006 Final: The powerful side of Ronaldinho, Deco and Andres Iniesta lost out to the Brazilians despite creating a number of chances.




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2013 Club World Cup Final: Bayern Munich 2-0 Raja Casablanca

Bayern Munich - Raja Casablanca, FIFA Club World Cup Morocco 2013: The European champions got goals from Dante and Thiago as the host Moroccan club came close but fell in the end in this well-played final.




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Phil Foden (R) with his 'Man of the Tournament' trophy, Rhin Brewster (L) with his 'Highest Scorer' trophy of England and goalkeeper Gabriel Brazao with his 'Best Goalkeeper' trophy pose

Phil Foden (R) with his 'Man of the Tournament' trophy, Rhin Brewster (L) with his 'Highest Scorer' trophy of England and goalkeeper Gabriel Brazao with his 'Best Goalkeeper' trophy pose for a photo after the FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 Final match between England and Spain at Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan on October 28, 2017 in Kolkata, India. (Photo by Buda Mendes - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Shayakhmetov eager to learn from defeat

Vladislav Shayakhmetov stands in the changing room entrance at the Coliseo el Pueblo in Cali, saddened and with his head bowed. He has just suffered a 5-4 defeat to Argentina in the final of the FIFA Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016, missing the chance to help Russia win a first-ever title.




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Lozano: Colombia 2016 is a turning point

Javier Lozano is much more than an authority on futsal. With two FIFA Futsal World Cup titles to his name during his time in charge of Spain, the former coach is now one of the sport’s gurus, a status he has attained thanks to his achievements and the legacy he left behind.




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Russia, Portugal, Spain and Kazakhstan secure Futsal World Cup returns




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New FIFA Club World Cup™ champions to be crowned at Khalifa International Stadium




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Mane, Alexander-Arnold prepare to take on the world




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Al Hilal join the class as past alumni return




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Reds return as Rayados hope it's their time




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Alisson: I remember watching Internacional being crowned in 2006




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Ricardinho (R) of Portugal shoots the ball and hits Fernando Wilhelm (C) of Argentina

Ricardinho (R) of Portugal shoots the ball and hits Fernando Wilhelm (C) of Argentina during the FIFA Futsal World Cup Semi-Final match between Argentina and Portugal at the Coliseo El Pueblo stadium on September 28, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Alex Caparros - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Fernando Gutiérrez Lumbreras looks on

CALI, COLOMBIA - SEPTEMBER 10: Fernando Gutiérrez Lumbreras  looks on during the Group A match between Colombia and Portugal during the FIFA Futsal World Cup at the Coliseo el Pueblo Stadium on September 10, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Ian MacNicol - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina lifts the winners trophy

CALI, COLOMBIA - OCTOBER 01: Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina lifts the winners trophy during the FIFA Futsal World Cup Final match between Russia and Argentina at the Coliseo el Pueblo Stadiumon October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Ian MacNicol - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina holds the trophy during the FIFA Futsal World Cup Final match between Russia and Argentina

CALI, COLOMBIA - OCTOBER 01: Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina holds the trophy during the FIFA Futsal World Cup Final match between Russia and Argentina at the Coliseo el Pueblo Stadiumon October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Ian MacNicol - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina lifts the winners trophy

CALI, COLOMBIA - OCTOBER 01: Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina lifts the winners trophy during the FIFA Futsal World Cup Final match between Russia and Argentina at the Coliseo el Pueblo Stadiumon October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Ian MacNicol - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Fernando Wilhelm, captain of Argentina celebrates lifting the trophy

CALI, COLOMBIA - OCTOBER 01: Fernando Wilhelm, captain of Argentina celebrates lifting the trophy with team mates during the FIFA Futsal World Cup final between Russia and Argentina at Coliseo el Pueblo on October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Jan Kruger - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina poses with the winners

CALI, COLOMBIA - OCTOBER 01: Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina poses with the winners trophy during the FIFA Futsal World Cup Final match between Russia and Argentina at the Coliseo el Pueblo Stadiumon October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Ian MacNicol - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina poses with the winners trophy

CALI, COLOMBIA - OCTOBER 01: Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina poses with the winners trophy during the FIFA Futsal World Cup Final match between Russia and Argentina at the Coliseo el Pueblo Stadiumon October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Ian MacNicol - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Fernando Wilhelm, captain of Argentina poses with the trophy

CALI, COLOMBIA - OCTOBER 01: Fernando Wilhelm, captain of Argentina poses with the trophy after victory during the FIFA Futsal World Cup final between Russia and Argentina at Coliseo el Pueblo on October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Jan Kruger - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Fernando Wilhelm (C) of Argentina, Eder Lima (L) of Russia and Ahmad Esmaeilpour (R) of Iran

CALI, COLOMBIA - OCTOBER 01: Fernando Wilhelm (C) of Argentina, Eder Lima (L) of Russia and Ahmad Esmaeilpour (R) of Iran, pose with their awards during the final events of 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup Colombia at Coliseo El Pueblo on October 01, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Gabriel Aponte/LatinContent/Getty Images)




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A detailed view of the golden winners medal on Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina

A detailed view of the golden winners medal on Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina during the FIFA Futsal World Cup final between Russia and Argentina at Coliseo el Pueblo on October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Jan Kruger - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina poses with the Golden Ball trophy and the World Cup trophy

Fernando Wilhelm of Argentina poses with the Golden Ball trophy and the World Cup trophy after the victory during the FIFA Futsal World Cup final between Russia and Argentina at Coliseo el Pueblo on October 1, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. (Photo by Jan Kruger - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)




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Nikonorov's journey from factory grind to World Cup glory