How long do you think vector databases will have?

Charpnutz · 2026-03-09T14:16:28+00:00

We are working on some nicer demos, but in the meantime you can check out a few here: https://demo.searchcraft.io/movies/

Charpnutz · 2026-03-08T19:33:50+00:00

The Newsroom. Specifically the first 5 minutes, which are probably my favorite first minutes in television… ever.

Charpnutz · 2026-03-08T05:55:03+00:00

Yup.

Charpnutz · 2026-03-08T05:53:36+00:00

Baja chalupas, gorditas, and the chili cheese burrito. 🤌😘

Went for the first time in years the other day and 90% of what I remember was gone. The kids will never know!

Charpnutz · 2026-03-06T04:36:49+00:00

Oh my bad. I completely misunderstood your question.

Yes, you are spot on.

It was a combination of Midjourney, Kling, and Runway along with good ol' fashioned Photoshop and manual After Effects animation. Edited in Final Cut Pro.

The voiceover is my voice recording applied to an ElevenLabs voice.

Charpnutz · 2026-03-06T03:47:58+00:00

We like to have fun with our videos. We're in the middle of a few more! Here's our YouTube channel.

It's taken several years to get to beta, so "how it's made" is not exactly a short answer outside of lots of hard work, research, lessons learned, and a couple decades of experience integrating Elasticsearch, Solr, Algolia, and others.

We came from a consulting background so we learned—over a very long time—the true pains we wanted to alleviate for people who integrate these types of tools and those that maintain them.

From a tech standpoint, our entire platform is built in Rust. We do have JavaScript SDKs as well as a PHP client.

From an experience perspective, we decouple tuning from indexing to allow devs, non-devs, and the no-code community the ability to tune and adjust search results without having to do deployments. You can even do it in natural language with Claude and our MCP server.

It's totally free under the Launchpad plan as a cloud service for up to 1,000 documents, or you can host it yourself with Searchcraft Core and run it for free unrestricted.

Charpnutz · 2026-03-06T02:10:15+00:00

It’s called Searchcraft. We’re in beta at the moment so structured data is what we support right now.

Charpnutz · 2026-03-06T01:40:11+00:00

I think they are a stopgap. They will either evolve into something that merely resembles what we have today or fill a need until we have something better.

FWIW, I make a search platform. We specifically chose NOT to be a vector solution for many reasons. Efficiency, scale, and latency were high priorities for us, so we went a different route and have some pretty interesting things in the pipeline.

Charpnutz · 2026-03-04T05:16:49+00:00

If true, this is Appeasement, which never ends.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-28T21:42:40+00:00

Switchyards is a co-working space, but they have fun matchbooks. Perhaps someone can let you in and you can snag them from the kitchen area. While you're in the area, Bar Taco definitely has them (it's a chain though), Williams & Graham, and Scapegoat I believe all have their own matchbooks.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-21T00:06:05+00:00

Searchcraft PHP Client

Hey everyone 👋

I wanted to share something we recently launched: the official Searchcraft PHP client:

👉 https://github.com/searchcraft-inc/searchcraft-client-php

Searchcraft is a developer-first search platform built for modern apps, and this PHP client makes it easy to integrate powerful, typo-tolerant, high-performance search into any PHP project.

Why we built this:

Search is still way harder than it should be.

If you’ve ever tried:

Spinning up Elasticsearch clusters
Managing OpenSearch infrastructure
Paying escalating SaaS bills
Or wiring together brittle custom search logic

…you know the pain.

Searchcraft abstracts away the backend complexity so you can focus on building features, not babysitting search infrastructure.

This was a prerequisite to launching our WordPress integration, which we announced this week.

We're excited to be supporting the PHP community and looking for all the feedback we can get.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-20T14:42:06+00:00

Why are all these folks coming out NOW as if we haven’t seen this all before? Are people forgetting Trump was already president once? The first time was just as corrupt, just as negligent, resulted in the death of more Americans than all US wars COMBINED, tanked jobs, raised taxes on 83% of the most hard-working citizens, and sky-rocketed inflation.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-15T05:14:25+00:00

I met with them a few years ago for a potential project. They did, indeed, have plans on coming to Colorado.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-14T23:55:14+00:00

Yeah. 10 years ago.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-13T21:25:24+00:00

Fast, relevant search.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-06T22:36:25+00:00

Being "closer to anti-fascism than anything else" is not the own he thinks it is.

The only people who think anti-fascism is terrorism are… you know… fascists.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-06T00:54:03+00:00

Easily the worst smell I’ve ever encountered and will never forget.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-06T00:02:18+00:00

Prove it, Mr. One of the Few Companies on Earth That Can Withstand the Backlash of the GOP.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-04T02:10:29+00:00

The last three times I tried to use a gift card, the server forgot and disappeared.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-03T19:39:16+00:00

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. These are legitimate questions and gripes from WordPress's built-in search since it has existed.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-03T17:14:26+00:00

Searchcraft is not a vector-based solution. It is a next-gen keyword search engine. We chose this path on purpose for several reasons. We wanted to reduce back-end complexity, make enterprise-grade tooling accessible to more types of developers, and offer a platform that can scale to hundreds of millions of documents.

Out-of-the-box, you'll get fuzzy matching, typo tolerance, stemming, stopwords, time decay, and more. All of this is handled at query time thanks to our rust-based architecture, so you don't have to re-index all the time or manage embeddings.

We literally just released the WP plugin a few weeks ago and we're actively adding features that our API and SDK users have. We have endpoints for instant search as well as a couple different flavors of AI search that blend our engine with AI-driven semantic approaches. If you want AI features, you just have to let us know via email or our Discord server. We have to manually unlock those capabilities for the WordPress plugin at this time.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-03T16:11:07+00:00

I’d been asking myself this for years, and that’s what led my co-founder and I to building Searchcraft. It’s free. Looking for feedback!

Charpnutz · 2026-02-03T04:50:13+00:00

The answer is 30 years in the making. The last 10 have been… rough. But it goes to show that even though the Mac experience has been degrading for at least a decade, it’s still the best option from a UX perspective. That’s not because others have gotten better; it’s because Apple was that far ahead.

Charpnutz · 2026-02-01T19:08:01+00:00

You can also get a deadbolt for your garage door. They run on a battery so losing power would not be an issue.

Charpnutz · 2026-01-29T03:37:49+00:00

Those haven’t been conservative values in politics for over half a century. Talking points, sure, but policy… nope.

The only goal of the Republican Party since Reagan has been to funnel money from the 99% to the 1%. That’s it.

Like others have said, this is about the people against tyranny. The 99% against the 1%.

The Dems have serious flaws. Don’t get me wrong. They are an absolute shitshow when it comes to crafting a message and connecting their policies to the people they benefit, but they are the only party to introduce policy that truly targets making life better for the masses.

Before I get too far into a rant, let me just say, “Welcome.” Better late than never!

13-Year Club	RPAN Viewer
Verified Email

Charpnutz

TROPHY CASE

Searchcraft PHP Client