Starting with the price curve of AI inference, this essay projects how the world will be repriced by 2036: intelligence will become as cheap and ubiquitous as electricity, while electricity itself, trust, accountability, attention, physical presence, and judgment become the truly scarce goods.

Pigsty v4.5 is out, bringing the PostgreSQL extension count to 575, replacing MinIO with Silo for object storage, adding Valkey to the Redis module, and introducing pilot Kafka and MySQL modules, along with broad improvements to orchestration safety and observability.

I spent years urging people to leave the cloud. Those who listened two years ago made a killing. Leaving has never been just about savings; it is about buying back your freedom. Cost curves move. Sovereignty does not.

People who leave Big Tech are not stupid. They have simply spent too long using a rented mental map. Only after leaving the platform do they discover that the map has to be returned.

Over the past month, I kept seven $200 AI subscriptions spinning—five paid, two comped—and burned through more than 100 billion tokens. Here is what came out: Silo, Pigsty, PGEXT, SOW, OINK, and a pile of code, packages, documentation, releases, products, and durable assets.

The hard part of maintaining a PostgreSQL distribution is not compiling packages. At 100,000 artifacts, deduplication, indexing, snapshots, atomic cutovers, and incremental publishing become the real challenge. SOW puts all of that into one self-contained binary, turning RPM and DEB repository management from ad hoc directory scripts into a recoverable, auditable state system.

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.

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.

OpenAI’s Codex Reset spree is over. The free eggs are gone—but what did one month with seven AI subscriptions, three computers, and two AGI-class models actually produce?

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 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.

FastJSON has failed again. When is “ship rough, scale hard, move fast” a defensible shortcut, and when does it become an engineering habit whose bill falls to whoever comes next?

A reader’s RDS MySQL instance failed over twice in five days: the cloud provider’s own back-end monitoring query brought it down, and the instance failed again with the same symptoms after the provider promised to disable that collector.

Huawei Cloud confirmed abnormalities affecting some International Site accounts during a scheduled IAM upgrade window. The timing is suggestive, but the causal link remains unconfirmed.

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.

An OpenAI agent’s attack on Hugging Face marks a milestone: what crossed the threshold was not merely model intelligence, but persistence that can be bought with compute, copied, and run in parallel.

Starting from the roots of “world” and “model,” this essay uses Pearl’s ladder of causation to redefine world models: they must capture not just space and time, but agents, interventions, and counterfactuals.

Codex reset its quotas again this morning and dropped the five-hour limit. Claude immediately extended Fable access through the 17th. When vendors fight, users win—don’t miss the window.

pgrust’s clean-room rewrite failed. Its mechanical port passed. The difference shows what AI can copy—and what it cannot.

Pigsty v4.4 adds Immich and JumpServer application templates, improves the Supabase and VIP experience, and begins standardizing the packages and filesystem layouts used to distribute PostgreSQL forks such as PolarDB and IvorySQL.

Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 have arrived back to back, followed by repeated quota resets. How do you turn a fleeting Coding Plan windfall into real output? Here is my playbook for model specialization, adversarial review, spec-driven design, closed-loop verification, context management, and one person leading a crew of AIs.

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.

Today’s biggest tech drama began when Bojie Li criticized DeepSeek’s interview process on Twitter: he was asked to solve online-judge coding problems, then suspected of cheating. Add the DeepSeek name, and the story exploded.

Pig v1.5 adds pig pg clone and pig pg fork, wrapping PostgreSQL 18’s instant cloning capabilities in an agent-native CLI.