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Monster Coding

Monster Coding

February has a way of making us reflect. The shine of a brand-new year has settled into the rhythm of real work, the resolutions have met reality, and we’re left with one simple question: what are we actually building, and how are we building it? This month’s issue tackles that question from nearly every angle […] The post Monster Coding appeared first on PHP Architect.

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The PHP Podcast 2026.02.26

The PHP Podcast 2026.02.26

The PHP Podcast streams live, typically every Thursday at 3 PM PT. Come join us and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Another fun episode of the PHP Podcast! Here’s what we covered: 🎿 John’s Ski Trip Adventures John shared stories from his Utah ski trip – including skiing his first green slope ever, and […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.02.26 appeared first on PHP Architect.

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Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of The PHP Foundation

Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of The PHP Foundation

We're excited to welcome Elizabeth Barron as the next Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, following a thorough process led by our search committee of Nils Adermann, Sebastian Bergmann, Lorna Mitchell, and Ben Ramsey. Elizabeth brings a rare combination of deep roots in the PHP community and proven leadership in open-source governance. She co-founded a volunteer-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting women and non-binary individuals in the PHP industry, served as Community Manager at…

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Building an Obsidian RAG with DuckDB and MotherDuck

Building an Obsidian RAG with DuckDB and MotherDuck

I always wanted a personal knowledge assistant based on my notes. One that uses Obsidian’s backlinks and connections to surface ideas I’ve forgotten or never thought to link together. So I built one. A RAG system that runs locally with DuckDB as a vector database, then syncs to MotherDuck for a serverless web app running entirely in the browser via WASM. Think of it like J.A.R.V.I.S1 for your markdown files: search about a topic, and it shows connected notes up to two hops away, semantically…

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Arch Linux (Omarchy) — 8 Months Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fixable

Arch Linux (Omarchy) — 8 Months Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fixable

This is a follow-up to my part 1 of Switching macOS to Arch Linux with Omarchy, where I documented my first months with Arch Linux and [[Omarchy]], after switching from 15 years of using macOS and Windows on and off at work since 2003. Back then, I had a checklist of basics I needed before I could commit to Linux as a daily driver: Obsidian, a Raycast-like launcher for fuzzy finding files and folders, screenshots (Snagit), daylight adjustment (f.lux), calendar events in the top bar. Those were…

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Why Coinbase and Pinterest Chose StarRocks: Lakehouse-Native Design and Fast Joins at Terabyte Scale

Why Coinbase and Pinterest Chose StarRocks: Lakehouse-Native Design and Fast Joins at Terabyte Scale

Why is StarRocks gaining popularity among data engineers who need fast analytics on large-scale data? To find out, I did a deep dive on the companies actually using StarRocks in production, interviewing engineers and studying technical case studies from Coinbase, Pinterest, Fresha, Grab, TRM Labs, and Shopee. They all share a similar pattern: customer-facing analytics on Snowflake got too slow, and they needed sub-second query responses without heavy pre-denormalization in Flink or Spark.

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