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2026/06/29 - Mehdi Ouazza
We launched Flights, an AI-native Python runtime in MotherDuck. Here's how I built a full end-to-end data pipeline (two scheduled Flights and a Dive dashboard) from a single prompt, using an AI coding agent and the MotherDuck MCP.
2026/06/24 - Jerel Navarrete, Jacob Matson
The DiveMaxxing winners, and what 48 community Dives taught us about what separates a great data visualization from one that just looks polished.
2026/06/18 - Alex Monahan
Build full data pipelines by prompting your AI agent, no Python required. MotherDuck Flights are perfect for data ingestion, transformation, and activation. Flight Plan templates show you and your agent how to ingest from Postgres, sync Google Sheets, and send Slack alerts.
2026/06/18 - Alex Monahan
Build full data pipelines by prompting your AI agent, no Python required. MotherDuck Flights are perfect for data ingestion, transformation, and activation. Flight Plan templates show you and your agent how to ingest from Postgres, sync Google Sheets, and send Slack alerts.
2026/06/16 - Carlin Eng
How MotherDuck replaced its BI tool in under a month using Claude Code agents: a migration that once would have taken 3 people six months and $500K.
2026/06/12 - Simon Späti
The June 2026 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: a local-first ETL/ELT studio, the Quack client-server protocol and its OAuth layer, DuckLake inlining, DuckDB internals, MotherDuck Flights for agent-native ingest, plus a community spotlight on Ryan Dolley.
2026/06/10 - Miguel Miranda, Doo Shim
Build, deploy, and schedule Python data pipelines from a prompt, a SQL function, or the MotherDuck UI.
2026/06/08 - Jacob Matson
Benchmark-maxxing DABstep to 100% and learning that an AI-native semantic layer isn't a description of your data — it's coupled to the model that reads it.
2026/06/05 - Simon Späti
Wes McKinney, creator of pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow, shares how he works with AI coding agents: spec-driven workflows with superpowers, continuous AI code review with Roborev, token economics, and why vibe coding is dangerous but agentic engineering isn't.
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.
2026/05/12 - 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.