Open Source on Vonng

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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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.

Did AI Rewrite PostgreSQL in Rust? Not Quite

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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.

The pgBackRest Rescue and Open Source's Forced Price Discovery

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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pgBackRest is No Longer Maintained

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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.

The Data Sovereignty Manifesto

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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
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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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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.

MinIO is Dead

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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.

Open-Source "Tyrant" Linus's Purge

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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.