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2026/06/04 - Mehdi Ouazza
Run DuckDB SQL inside your Obsidian notes and freeze the results as plain markdown tables, local files or MotherDuck cloud data alike. Your vault becomes a local knowledge base your AI agent can read without ever querying the warehouse
2026/05/28 - Jerel Navarrete
DiveMaxxing is an online data viz competition for MotherDuck Dives. Three categories, duckified Mac Minis on the line, and a community vote. Free to enter through June 22.
2026/05/21 - Simon Späti
Chris Riccomini on using AI for data engineering: correctness in financial data, why LLMs should speak Substrait over SQL, the Ralph Loop for context management, security with 'Okta for Agents', and the future of the data engineer role.
2026/05/21 - Simon Späti
Chris Riccomini on using AI for data engineering: correctness in financial data, why LLMs should speak Substrait over SQL, the Ralph Loop for context management, security with 'Okta for Agents', and the future of the data engineer role.
2026/05/12 - Jordan Tigani
DuckDB Labs announced Quack, a client-server protocol for DuckDB. Here's why we're excited, what it means for MotherDuck, and why it's so great for the DuckDB community.
2026/05/11 - Simon Späti
DuckDB Monthly #41: Torsten's 15-week DuckDB internals course, Pete's full-text search walkthrough on a multi-GB email corpus, Mark's GCAT satellite pipeline with H3, plus column-level lineage with duck_lineage and DuckLake v1.0.
2026/04/30 - Dumky de Wilde
Track AI agent traffic that bypasses your web analytics. Stream Vercel Log Drains into MotherDuck to see how ChatGPT, Claude, and other agents browse your site.
2026/04/30 - Jacob Matson
The agent writes the SQL and the data viz now. Here's what's still your job — and how to implement data-layer changes that took a very hard natural language to SQL benchmark from 30% to 93% accuracy with Gemini Flash.
2026/04/27 - Garrett O'Brien
April 2026 at MotherDuck: Duckling compute monitoring, Embedded Dives, agent Skills, DuckLake 1.0 support, and Power BI + Tableau via the Postgres Endpoint.
2026/04/24 - Simon Späti
25 years of external tables, from Oracle 9i to DuckLake. When to use internal storage vs. external tables, why they keep getting re-added to every major data warehouse, and a benchmark showing the speed tax for cold data.
2026/04/21 - Dumky de Wilde
Build a real-time voting app on Cloudflare Workers that queries MotherDuck through the Postgres endpoint, using Durable Objects for live state and the pg package for analytical workloads.
2026/04/20 - Mehdi Ouazza, Samantha Lohier, Leonardo Vida
MotherDuck Agent Skills is an open-source catalog that teaches AI coding agents how to work with MotherDuck: exploring schemas, writing DuckDB SQL, using the REST API, and building Dives. If MCP gives agents hands, skills give them a playbook.
2026/04/17 - Simon Späti
DuckLake 1.0 ships, Lance adds vector search, Rust-native extension
2026/04/16 - Alex Monahan
MotherDuck now supports DuckLake 1.0, the open table lakehouse format designed for simplicity and low latency. Learn what's new in the 1.0 release, including data inlining, clustering, bucket partitioning, geometry and variant types, plus multi-engine support. Learn how DuckLake compares with Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake.
2026/04/15 - Jordan Tigani
In a fully agentic world, will we still need analytics at all? A particularly unhinged example might offer some clues.
2026/04/10 - Mehdi Ouazza
Five fundamental data visualization principles that transform AI-generated dashboards from pretty charts into actionable insights. Learn chart selection, design, narrative, and interactivity.
2026/04/08 - Aditya Somani
Learn how to build a text-to-SQL LLM and LangChain SQL agent with DuckDB and MotherDuck, including schema inspection, query checking, and self-correction.
2026/04/03 - Jordan Tigani
What does AI think its own impact will be on the data and analytics industry? I asked Claude to share its predictions on the Modern Data Stack, data jobs, and the future of analytics.
2026/04/02 - Garrett O'Brien, Hamilton Ulmer
Real-time, interactive data apps – now embedded anywhere in your application. Created by your favorite agents and powered by dual execution.