2026
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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.
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From Keywords to Concepts: Semantic Search in Laravel with pgvector
Sept 10
The post version of my PHP Tek talk: retrofitting meaning-aware search into a Laravel app with PostgreSQL and pgvector — architecture, code, and production lessons from DailyMedToday.
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Meaning as Geometry: What Embeddings Actually Are
Sept 8
Embeddings turn language into coordinates, where distance equals meaning. This is the foundation everything else in this series builds on — explained without the math degree.
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PHP Tek 2026: Kubernetes and Semantic Search for PHP Developers
Jan 26
In May, I’ll present two talks at PHP Tek. The first focuses on streamlining production deployments. The second on AI-powered semantic search in Laravel. Connect with me at the conference!
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The gap between Docker Compose and production Kubernetes
Jan 13
Docker Compose and Kubernetes solve the same problems with different vocabulary. Once you see the translation, production deployment stops feeling impossible.
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Why I built a Kubernetes deployment tool
Jan 6
After years managing production PHP infrastructure and watching teams burn weeks on Kubernetes adoption, I built the deployment tool I wished someone had given me.