Working trips are usually very time-consuming. This week we presented a talk at a conference in Innsbruck, and we needed about two days only for traveling.

On Wednesday, it took a 6-hour train ride and some creepy old white men to get to Innsbruck. For me, it was the first …

There are a lot of articles about Postgres 19 published at the moment. It seems like there is a big excitement about the upcoming Postgres 19 release.

We are already testing some upgrade paths. Just to be sure that we can roll out the upgrades when Postgres 19 is released …

What a week. Finally, the current heatwave is all over Austria. It is hot. This weekend should be the peek of the heatwave.

We had our company summer party on Friday. The party was outside the whole night. And it was hot. The whole night.

I wasn't very happy about …

The last two weeks were quite busy. And I will try something new this week. As mentioned the last days, there are own editions of the Postgres and AI news.

At work, we are busy preparing data for a conference in July. As usual, we are a little bit behind …

As mentioned in the AI recap, I am experimenting with a new format. And I think Postgres deserves a more focused recap than the Weeknotes could offer.

For the first edition, we have a couple of interesting articles of the last two weeks. And I am happy to see that …

I thought I'd try something new today. The AI news will no longer be part of the Weeknotes, and on a (un) regular basis I will post a little recap of interesting AI news. At least that is the plan for now.

And we will start the first edition with …

Another short week here in Austria. That usually means a couple of intense days.

We were evaluating a new Software. So I downloaded the latest container image and started it. We wanted to authenticate against our Keycloak server, but it didn't work.

I was already starting to feel a little …

It was a quite successful week. I was able to successfully complete many of the tasks I had to do. Some tasks made me feel a little bit giddy.

This week a heatwave started, and we already had over 30 degrees. But the week finally brought a little bit of …

I've been to the black forest, and that is the reason I didn't publish last week's weeknotes. I thought let's try this week one more double-entry bookkeeping. Due to a long weekend here in Austria, the weeknotes are published on a Monday.

The time at the black forest and the …

Finally, this week brought some rain. It was very dry the last couple of months, and in some parts of Austria there was almost no rain the whole year. The parks and meadows looked already like they look at the end of the summer.

Although it would have been better …

What a week. I upgraded to Fedora 43. Fedora supports the last two versions, and Fedora 44 was released this week. Somehow I managed that I am always a little behind.

Anyway. After the upgrade, the graphical userinterface didn't work anymore. And the home directory was not mounted anymore.

It …

This week was a week of a couple of first-timers. On a business trip, the train to Vienna used the Pottendorfer Linie between Wiener Neustadt and Vienna. And on the way back, I used the first time the Westbahn.

Despite that, the business trip was exhausting as usual. It is …

I had the second cold this winter season during the week. That was surprising. I can't remember when I had the last time twice a season. Thankfully, two coworkers figured out that I am just getting old ;-)

It was a busy week. After last week's Mythos madness, a lot of …

It was a short week. Monday was a holiday here in Austria. Despite that, it feels like a long week.

Because Friday and Saturday were the Grazer Linuxtage 2026. The biggest open-source event of the year in Graz. As usual, an event with great speakers.

And two friends from Germany …

Gestern und heute waren die Grazer Linuxtge 2026. Heuer hatte ich etwas weniger Zeit und daher konnte ich nur vier Vorträge besuchen. Mein Eindruck war, der Andrang wird von Jahr zu Jahr größer. So wurden heuer die Vorträge aus dem Hörsaal i7 auch in einen anderen Raum übertragen, da der …

In Austria, it was a quiet week because of the Easter holiday. And the Easter holiday is the reason why I published on a Monday.

What a wild week. On the security front, there was a lot of big news and breaches. Some called it the dawn of a new …

The supply chain attacks evolved this week. More and more projects are breached. It seems like Trivy was just the beginning.

Google published the M-Trends 2026 Report. As usual, it is an interesting read.

At work, we had a premiere. The first time two coworkers gave a little concert for …

Working with data is always great fun. I got two datasets. Both should have the same identifier. As usual, it is not the case.

Therefore, I spent a lot of time this week trying to figure out how to match those two datasets. The funny thing for me is that …

It was a quite successful week. We finally managed to migrate a legacy project to a dbt-based approach. The tests are looking very promising.

Instead of one giant SQL file containing a lot of inserts, updates and deletes, we now have a model for every step. We also included the …

I guess it is the first ever double header of the weeknotes. Last week, I already prepared some parts of the weeknotes edition for 2026.09 and went on Saturday to the skiing trip of our company. Every year we have the same bar for dinner after a day of …