Release notes, product thinking, and technical write-ups — mostly about DuckDB extensions, Arrow transport, and what breaks at scale.
The IP is safe under the DuckDB Foundation, but the Foundation doesn't cut releases — DuckLabs does. What the AWS acquisition changes for people who build on DuckDB, and what Query Farm is doing about it.
Every DuckDB engine release needs its community extensions rebuilt before they install. With data from 1,400+ PRs and a full-catalogue rebuild, we make the case for treating the catalogue as a distribution — and show Haybarn rebuilds it ~2.4× faster.
A DuckDB extension that compiles for WebAssembly has only proven that it compiles. Whether it loads, and whether it actually runs, are separate questions. I built a Node harness to ask them across 124 community extensions. Here's what it found and the fixes that came out of it.
Quack — the new client/server protocol extension for DuckDB — was announced today. It's been built since November 2025, almost exactly as long as I've been building VGI. Here's what's interesting, what's surprising, and where the two projects converge and diverge.
Extension releases, VGI updates, and the occasional deep dive. Sent when there's something worth sending — not on a schedule.
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