2026/06/08 - Jacob Matson
The Surprising Truth About AI-Native Semantic Layers
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.
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2026/06/05 - Simon Späti
Vibe Coding Is Dangerous, Agentic Engineering Isn't ft. Wes McKinney
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
Your Obsidian Vault Can Now Run SQL (and Your Agent Can Read It)
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
2026/06/04 - Mehdi Ouazza
Your Obsidian Vault Can Now Run SQL (and Your Agent Can Read It)
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
Announcing DiveMaxxing: An Online Data Viz Hackathon
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
Plan Mode All the Time, Substrait over SQL, and the End of the DE Role ft. Chris Riccomini
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
If It Quacks Like a Duck: the DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
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: DuckDB internals course, FTS walkthrough, and a satellite pipeline with H3 + Parquet
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
AI Agent Analytics with Vercel & MotherDuck
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
Vibe Coding has come for BI
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 Product Roundup: Duckling Monitoring, Embedded Dives, DuckLake 1.0, and More
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
Internal vs. External Storage: What's the Limit of External Tables?
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
MotherDuck on Cloudflare Workers
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 Skills: Teaching Your AI Agents to Do Analytics
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
DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : April 2026
DuckLake 1.0 ships, Lance adds vector search, Rust-native extension
2026/04/16 - Alex Monahan
Announcing DuckLake 1.0 on MotherDuck
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
Water Town: The Agent Swarm Data Stack
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
Your AI dashboard looks cool. Nobody learns anything from it
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
Building a Text-to-SQL Agent with DuckDB, MotherDuck and LangChain
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.