2026
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When Faster Builds Don’t Mean Faster Business: The Impact of AI-Driven Build Spikes
Nov 13
Teams are merging twice the pull requests and the business doesn’t feel any faster. AI sped up the one step that was rarely the constraint. Here’s where the work is waiting now, and what to do about it.
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What the Embeddings Reveal: A Map of Meaning
Nov 12
The capstone: a UMAP map of the meditation archive where resurrection, the Holy Spirit, fasting, and repentance each formed their own cluster — structure nobody imposed, recovered from meaning alone.
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Nineteen Years, Four Domains, and a New Front Page
Nov 11
Nineteen years, four domains, more hosts than I care to count, and now a newspaper-style redesign. A look back at the old coats of paint, how the new one was built, and why this blog now runs on Kubernetes.
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Shipping with Spacefast
Nov 10
I’ve been shipping real work on Spacefast since August — a docs site for WordPress core, reports for customers, even live checklists. Here’s how I use it, rough edges and all.
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The Mantle – Part 1 of 4
Nov 9
The Marshal is on the road from Farlight. In Stillwater, that means a judgment. Everyone already knows how that will end.
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DailyMedToday: A Production Case Study in Semantic Search
Nov 9
The production case study: how DailyMedToday uses Laravel, pgvector, and embeddings so readers can search a meditation archive by state of mind — and the operational lessons learned.
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From Voice to Vectors: Building a Searchable Audio Archive in PHP
Oct 1
Transcribe, embed, search: turning hours of opaque audio into a semantically searchable archive that deep-links to the exact moment — ext-whisper, ext-infer, and ext-turbovec composed.
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RAG Over Markdown: An End-to-End Local Pipeline in Pure PHP
Sept 29
RAG without the vendor mystique: chunk, embed, index, retrieve, generate — a complete question-answering pipeline over markdown docs, every stage running locally in PHP.
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ai-contracts & ai-toolkit: The Primitives a PHP AI Ecosystem Needs
Sept 25
Five interfaces and a toolkit of pipeline utilities — the thin pure-PHP layer that makes native AI extensions composable and turns PHP’s AI frameworks into allies instead of competitors.
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ext-whisper: PHP-Native Audio Transcription
Sept 24
ext-whisper runs Whisper speech-to-text inside the PHP process via whisper.cpp — transcripts plus timestamped segments, no Python, no API, no audio leaving your machine.
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ext-turbovec: A Vector Index Inside Your PHP Process
Sept 23
ext-turbovec brings quantized vector search inside the PHP process — TurboQuant 4-bit compression, SIMD kernels, SQL-friendly ids, and filtered search that gets faster, not worse.
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ext-infer: Local LLM Inference, Natively in PHP
Sept 22
ext-infer is a PHP extension that runs GGUF models inside the PHP process — chat, completions, and embeddings with no Python sidecar and no remote API. Here’s the tour.