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2026-01-10

PHP Doesn't Have to Suck: Building Better Extensions with Rust

PHP gets a lot of hate, and some of it is deserved. But what if I told you the language itself isn't the problem — it's the ecosystem? Here's how Rust can turn PHP into something you might actually enjoy using.

2025-09-20

Building a Fuzzy Search Engine in Rust

I needed to search sanctions lists with messy, real-world queries. Typos, transliterations, concatenated names like "SADDAMHUSSEIN" — the works. What started as a Python prototype became two open-source Rust libraries and a search engine that processes 5,000+ queries in under 7 seconds.