Weekly Tech - Jun 16th of 2025

What if Linux was the ‘new cool’? Embedded with Rust, Apple bringing AI back into the network neural, and the PECL replacement coming out in version 1.0 – ready?

Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well?

New week, new weekly tech – and after last week's Apple paper (which is finally in the log), I need to postpone the GCP experience session on the recent ‘internet collapse’ (promise, it will be there next week) due to lack of time to study some of the ‘issues’ on the chain.

Anyway, that’s enough said, let’s get started?

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Culture générale

So, we start with general knowledge and a very good article/experience report on the migration from Windows to Linux (for several daily tasks, including gaming), noting also the experience report (and having experienced it myself, the migration to W11 isn’t depressing at all…) on the migration to W11 from W10 and its ‘hidden costs’.

• What if Linux could be your main platform?

• Migrating to Windows 11 is costly, more than you might think

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Base de données

We continue with the database, particularly SurrealDB, which explains how to build a fraud detection system (directly from the DB and in just a few queries), noting also a series of tutorials explaining how to build a search engine in Rust

• Building a fraud detection system using SurrealDB

• Multigress, an implementation of Vitess for PostgreSQL

• A crash course on how to build a search engine using Rust

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Cloud computing

We return to the classics with the cloud, notably AmnesiaWG, a VPN protocol designed for security and anonymity (available via NymVPN, no affiliation here but the tool is top tier), noting also Roto, a layer built in Rust (still in embedded systems) for the embedded.

• The source code of the AmneziaWG VPN protocol

• HyperDX, a dashboard to track and solve production issues faster

• Pulsar, a security and monitoring tool for Linux devices (and IoT)

• Alpine-RustX, a library to ease cross-platform compiling for Rust projects

• Roto, an embedded scripting language built on top of Rust

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Machine learning

What's new on the machine learning side?

Let’s just say Apple’s paper made a big noise (and after reading and explorations, yes, they point out something), many developers don’t understand current LLMs, while others argue that LLMs won’t lead to general intelligence (or AGI), the truth might be somewhere in between, anyway, the paper stirred up a lot of dust and some studios are revising their expectations for the coming years.

Last topic with Goose, a GUI solution to use your models locally with tools (like memory storage, graphs, filesystem and others).

• A VRAM and performances calculator for LLMs

• Building a chatbot using Docker and its Model Runner extension

• The illusion of thinking, an analysis from Apple engineers on Large Reasoning Models

• Goose, a local platform to implement LLMs into your daily work

• Where could "AGI" brings us? - Youtube

• Is Agentic Engineering the "best way" to use agents?

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PHP

We finish this weekly tech with PHP and the release of version 1.0 of Pie (the replacement for PECL) as well as a tip for your interfaces and the definition of contracts at the level of properties (yes, it’s possible).

• Laravel OpenRouter, a package for Laravel to interact with OpenRouter

• Pie 1.0.0 is out

• Fastfony, a boilerplate for Symfony projects

• Interfaces can define properties, yes

So, that’s it for this weekly tech – don’t hesitate to leave a comment/like (you know the song), on my part, I’ll see you next week for a new log.

In the meantime, have a great weekend and a very good week.

See you Friday.