Changelog Interviews

Lightspeed search built for devs


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We talk with Don MacKinnon, Co-founder and CTO of Searchcraft—a lightspeed search engine built in Rust. We dig into the future of search, how it blends vector embeddings with classic ranking, and what it takes to build developer-friendly, production-grade search from the ground up.

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    • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
    • Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

    Show Notes:

    • Searchcraft
    • Importing and searching all of Wikipedia on a Raspberry Pi
    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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