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Local AI: A Question of Power, Not Price

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Anthropic’s threat report, OpenAI’s soap opera, the closure of the $200 subscription tier, and rising GPU and memory prices—all of this week’s events tell the same story.

AWS Acquires DuckDB: The Duck Flies into the Amazon Rainforest

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AWS bought the people who build the duck and left the duck itself to the foundation.

Did PostgreSQL Win Because Oracle Screwed Up?

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Starting with Stonebraker’s remark that PostgreSQL should “thank Oracle,” this essay looks at the community’s unusual governance model and the challenges it now faces.

AGI Machine Guns Are Now Standard Issue

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In one month, my friend Jiang cobbled together four databases, an operating system, a programming language, a compiler, and a CPU—a microcosm of today’s AI frenzy.

OINK: After Six Years of Wrestling with Documentation Frameworks, Codex Finally Got Me Over the Line

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

After six years of trying eight approaches, I used Codex to combine Docsy’s engineering depth, Fumadocs’ modern UX, and Hugo’s simple delivery model into OINK.

A Packaging Patch Has Been Corrupting Valkey's Memory Accounting Since 2017

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Codex found an old Valkey bug affecting Debian’s packages and every official Valkey .deb. One line in a packaging patch releases a glibc allocation with Valkey’s own deallocator, so the server either segfaults or silently stops accepting writes until you restart it.

Silo: A Maintained, MinIO-Compatible Object Store

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Six months after forking MinIO, Silo has completed its rebrand, fixed 14 security issues, restored and improved the console, and grown from an emergency fork into an independent open-source project.

How a Word Dies

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How did “far, far ahead,” “homegrown,” “innovation,” “domestic,” and “open source” become their own antonyms in China’s tech industry? This essay traces a systemic inflation of language and credibility—and the bill it has left for engineering, open source, and the industry’s ability to correct itself.

Jensen Huang's First-Ever Tweet Backs Open-Weight Models

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Jensen Huang used his first-ever tweet to back open weights. This is not a battle of faith. It is the compute and application layers pushing back against rent extraction by the model layer. The truly scarce technical asset is the right to exit—one no one else can unilaterally revoke.

Happy 30th Birthday, PostgreSQL

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On July 8, 1996, the PostgreSQL community picked up the flame from Postgres95. Thirty years later, it has grown from a Berkeley research project into a default foundation of the global database ecosystem.

The Karma of Open Source: When Code Is Worthless, Where Does Trust Come From?

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI is driving the cost of producing code toward zero. It cannot compress time, track records, or accountability. The real value of open source is not yesterday’s code, but a system trusted to deliver on tomorrow’s promises.

I Asked AI to Prove That Eating Garlic Prevents Middle Ear Infections

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I asked AI to find real papers supporting the absurd claim that eating garlic prevents middle ear infections. The result shows how AI is degrading citations as a credibility signal at scale.

AI Is Bringing Down the Scaffolding of Trust

Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The most dangerous change in the AI era is not that machines can write articles, draw images, or generate video. It is that content itself is losing its standing as evidence.

The pgBackRest Rescue and Open Source's Forced Price Discovery

Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Seven days after pgBackRest was archived, David Steele said a coalition of sponsors was nearly in place and the project would probably live on. This was not just a heartwarming community story. It was a remarkably clean exercise in forcing the market to price an open-source commons.

pgBackRest is No Longer Maintained

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Its maintainer, under pressure to make a living, has formally archived pgBackRest, the PostgreSQL ecosystem’s most important backup tool. The entire PostgreSQL community needs to think seriously about how critical open-source dependencies can be sustained.

Two months into maintaining a MinIO fork

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Two months after forking MinIO, pgsty/minio ships patches for four CVEs and related security issues. No new features — just working builds, a restored console, and timely security fixes.

The Data Sovereignty Manifesto

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

As data becomes the most important means of production in the AI age, platform lock-in and cloud dependence are rebuilding digital feudalism. This manifesto calls on us to reclaim control through open source and the ability to run our own infrastructure, so data can truly belong to its owners.

Local AI's Inflection Point: 2027

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When subsidies fade, hardware catches up, and open models mature, all three lines cross in 2027. “Build your own AI” goes from idea to reality.

A Thought Triggered by a Group Chat

A friend in a group chat said the other day that “self-hosting” is starting to make more sense to him now.

Good News: Claude Code Got "Open-Sourced" Yet Again

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

SOTA coding agent Claude Code leaked its source again, after falling into the same hole twice. The whole codebase is out in public. Performance art at its finest.

OpenClaw Broke npm Again: What Happens When You Ship Without Testing

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

OpenClaw v2026.3.22 was published to npm without its web console frontend and related build assets. The bigger problem is not the packaging accident itself, but the complete absence of post-install verification in the release process.

Pigsty Goes Global: 1.44M Visitors, Zero Ad Revenue

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Over the last 30 days, pigsty.io served 1.44 million unique visitors, 18.11 million page views, and 1.1 TB of traffic. For a one-person open source project, the real asset here is not ad inventory. It is trust.

Tencent Cloud 'Reduced' the Lobster King's Load by 180 GB

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tencent Cloud mirrored OpenClaw’s official skill marketplace into its own SkillHub and then claimed it was helping the upstream project. The incident turned into a case study in open-source manners, mirror ethics, and platform power.

InsForge: A Supabase Built for Vibe Coding

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

InsForge tries to package PostgreSQL, auth, storage, deployment, and an MCP-facing semantic layer into a backend stack designed for AI agents. It feels like a Supabase rebuilt for the vibe-coding era.

MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

MinIO’s repo is officially archived and abandoned. And how AI Agents helped bring it back from the dead. This post explains how a community fork restores the admin console and ships binaries via CI/CD pipeline.

From AGPL to Apache: Why I Changed Pigsty's License

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Pigsty switched from AGPLv3 to Apache 2.0. Aren’t you worried about freeloaders? Freeloaders welcome — if you want to become the Debian of databases, a permissive license is table stakes.

MinIO Is Dead. Who Picks Up the Pieces?

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

MinIO just entered maintenance mode. What replaces it? Can RustFS step in? I tested the contenders so you don’t have to.

MinIO is Dead

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

MinIO announces it is entering maintenance mode, the dragon-slayer has become the dragon – how MinIO transformed from an open-source S3 alternative to just another commercial software company

On Trusting Open-Source Supply Chains

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In serious production you can’t rely on an upstream that explicitly says “no guarantees.” When someone says “don’t count on me,” the right answer is “then I’ll run it myself.”

Alicloud “Borrowed” Supabase, the giant free loader

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Founders here get asked the same question over and over: what if Alibaba builds the same thing? Alicloud RDS just launched Supabase as a managed service. Exhibit A.

KubeSphere: Trust Crisis Behind Open-Source Supply Cut

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Deleting images and running away - this isn’t about commercial closed-source issues, but supply cut problems that directly destroy years of accumulated community trust.

Stop Arguing, The AI Era Database Has Been Settled

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The database for the AI era has been settled. Capital markets are making intensive moves on PostgreSQL targets, with PG having become the default database for the AI era.

Dify Gets Humiliated Again: It Can't Catch a Break

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Livzon Pharmaceutical’s logo-swapping PR landed out of nowhere. As if being ripped off by DeepSeek appliance vendors were not enough, someone marched into Dify’s own repository to rub it in. Dify just can’t catch a break.

Alicloud’s rds_duckdb: Tribute or Rip-Off?

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out."

Open-Source "Tyrant" Linus's Purge

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Linux community is essentially imperial — and Linus himself is the earliest and most successful technical dictator. People are used to Linus’s generosity but forget this point.

WordPress Community Civil War: On Community Boundary Demarcation

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

When open source ideals meet commercial conflicts, what insights can this conflict between open source software communities and cloud vendors bring? On the importance of community boundary demarcation.

Redis Going Non-Open-Source is a Disgrace to "Open-Source" and Public Cloud

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Redis “going non-open source” is not a disgrace to Redis, but a disgrace to “open source/OSI” and even more so to public cloud. What truly matters has always been software freedom, while open source is just one means to achieve software freedom.

Paradigm Shift: From Cloud to Local-First

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Cloud databases’ exorbitant markups—sometimes 10x or more—are undoubtedly a scam for users outside the applicable spectrum. But we can dig deeper: why are public clouds, especially cloud databases, like this? And based on their underlying logic, make predictions about the industry’s future.