Weekly Tech of June 30, 2025

Escaping Google to better return via its LLMs, Claude and its "minibar" management, a new PHP framework, and Limbo's alpha is arriving this week. There's a lot happening, are you ready?

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

New week, new Weekly Tech, and this week, machine learning is taking center stage (yes, quite a few new things!). Before we dive deeper, yes, the audio version from last time didn't come out on time. I ran into some issues during the recording, and the quality wasn't great. I decided to push it back a few days (it's coming in July, it's guaranteed, and it will allow me to cover more topics).

Anyway, enough talk, let's get back to the heart of the matter, the day before the end of June

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Culture générale

So, we'll start with general culture and PewDiePie highlighting the possibility that we all have access to services beyond Google. This requires a bit of equipment (VPN, etc.), but it's absolutely possible. It's also worth noting that Scaleway is partnering with other companies to build a European Gigafactory for AI of the future.

• Could you get rid of Google? Yes - Youtube

• Scaleway is working on building an European Gigafactory

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Base de données

We're continuing with databases and the alpha release of Limbo. The rewriting of SQLite in Rust by the team behind Turso is already stable and usable "in production." The proposed version is fully compatible with the file format of SQLite, and full support for functions is coming soon.

• Turso unveiled the Alpha of Limbo, its SQLite refactoring in Rust

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Machine learning

Let's shift gears to machine learning to highlight the release of Gemma3n, the latest "open-weight" model derived from Gemini (and it's already very performant, all on a minimal format if you're targeting the 1B version - which is a 5B optimized one!). Also worth noting is Anthropic's attempt to let Claude manage a "minibar" containing a few products. The results are... not great (I'd say laughable, but the effort is there, let's highlight that), last topic with Google (again) is the availability of Gemini CLI, the "local but within their cloud" version of Gemini to assist you in your daily life

• Gemma3n, the latest multi-modal model from Google is out

• Evaluating Gemma3n, one SVG at a time

• Can Claude run a small shop? No

• Could LLMs use bytes instead of tokens? Yes - Youtube

• Google unveiled the Gemini CLI, a CLI to use AI workflow locally

• Blt, the source code behind the Byte Latent Transformer architecture paper

• Using Nvidia Nim to launch LLMs - Youtube

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PHP

We're back to the basics with PHP, and specifically Tempest, a new (or tenth, it's up to you!) PHP framework that aims for "simplicity and non-intrusiveness" (we'll have to define if a template with fifteen directives is "simple"). Last point with the NeuronAI team is their explanation of how to create and "monitor" agents (via their solution, it wouldn't be funny otherwise!).

• Tempest, a framework that "gets out of your way"

• Using NeuronAI to create and monitor agents

• PHP isn't dead, you shouldn't even talk about its death

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Tools

Last detour with tools, and VaultWaren, a Rust alternative to Bitwarden.

• VaultWarden, an unofficial Bitwarden compatible service written in Rust

So, that's for the roundup of this week, don't hesitate to leave a like/comment, you're getting used to it, I'm giving you a date for next week (last episode before a ten-day break, a little time off for me) for a new roundup.

Until then, have a great weekend and a very good week.

See you Friday.