Opensource
Open Source "Tyrant" Linus's Purge
·970 words·5 mins
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.
Paradigm Shift: From Cloud to Local-First
·2123 words·10 mins
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.