New blog post - scalar functions

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• New blog post about scalar functions

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• Simplified posts HTML syntax
• Minor UX adjustments on landing page and blog

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Flow PHP - Benchmarks

^{_{Results of the benchmarks from this PR are compared with the results from 1.x branch.}}

Extractors

+-----------------------+-------------------+------+-----+-----------------+------------------+-----------------+
| benchmark             | subject           | revs | its | mem_peak        | mode             | rstdev          |
+-----------------------+-------------------+------+-----+-----------------+------------------+-----------------+
| CSVExtractorBench     | bench_extract_10k | 1    | 3   | 4.131mb +0.01%  | 513.360ms +0.50% | ±0.49% +127.76% |
| JsonExtractorBench    | bench_extract_10k | 1    | 3   | 4.263mb +0.01%  | 1.063s -0.52%    | ±1.32% +242.12% |
| ParquetExtractorBench | bench_extract_10k | 1    | 3   | 28.725mb +0.00% | 440.779ms +1.46% | ±0.58% -59.96%  |
| TextExtractorBench    | bench_extract_10k | 1    | 3   | 3.890mb +0.01%  | 34.120ms -0.23%  | ±0.51% -67.30%  |
| XmlExtractorBench     | bench_extract_10k | 1    | 3   | 3.880mb +0.01%  | 759.604ms +0.57% | ±2.35% +47.45%  |
+-----------------------+-------------------+------+-----+-----------------+------------------+-----------------+

Transformers

+-----------------------------+--------------------------+------+-----+------------------+-----------------+----------------+
| benchmark                   | subject                  | revs | its | mem_peak         | mode            | rstdev         |
+-----------------------------+--------------------------+------+-----+------------------+-----------------+----------------+
| RenameEntryTransformerBench | bench_transform_10k_rows | 1    | 3   | 116.232mb +0.00% | 60.765ms +4.02% | ±0.71% -67.21% |
+-----------------------------+--------------------------+------+-----+------------------+-----------------+----------------+

Loaders

+--------------------+----------------+------+-----+------------------+-----------------+----------------+
| benchmark          | subject        | revs | its | mem_peak         | mode            | rstdev         |
+--------------------+----------------+------+-----+------------------+-----------------+----------------+
| CSVLoaderBench     | bench_load_10k | 1    | 3   | 54.353mb +0.00%  | 87.301ms +3.45% | ±0.16% -90.59% |
| JsonLoaderBench    | bench_load_10k | 1    | 3   | 102.675mb +0.00% | 55.380ms +5.25% | ±0.49% +7.24%  |
| ParquetLoaderBench | bench_load_10k | 1    | 3   | 124.005mb +0.00% | 1.253s +2.28%   | ±0.59% -6.41%  |
| TextLoaderBench    | bench_load_10k | 1    | 3   | 17.147mb +0.00%  | 44.452ms +0.64% | ±0.09% -96.51% |
+--------------------+----------------+------+-----+------------------+-----------------+----------------+

Building Blocks

+-------------------------+----------------------------+------+-----+------------------+------------------+-------------------------------+
| benchmark               | subject                    | revs | its | mem_peak         | mode             | rstdev                        |
+-------------------------+----------------------------+------+-----+------------------+------------------+-------------------------------+
| TypeDetectorBench       | bench_type_detector        | 1    | 3   | 52.812mb +0.00%  | 390.455ms +0.56% | ±0.24% +35.59%                |
| TypeDetectorBench       | bench_type_detector        | 1    | 3   | 13.078mb +0.00%  | 79.735ms +1.09%  | ±0.24% -52.84%                |
| NativeEntryFactoryBench | bench_entry_factory        | 1    | 3   | 107.005mb +0.00% | 479.239ms +2.91% | ±2.03% +329.90%               |
| NativeEntryFactoryBench | bench_entry_factory        | 1    | 3   | 55.363mb +0.00%  | 244.780ms +2.52% | ±1.56% +23.53%                |
| NativeEntryFactoryBench | bench_entry_factory        | 1    | 3   | 14.201mb +0.00%  | 53.811ms +6.00%  | ±1.14% +31.63%                |
| RowsBench               | bench_chunk_10_on_10k      | 2    | 3   | 86.988mb +0.00%  | 3.718ms +11.79%  | ±1.01% -37.23%                |
| RowsBench               | bench_diff_left_1k_on_10k  | 2    | 3   | 102.592mb +0.00% | 188.123ms +1.48% | ±0.39% +111.63%               |
| RowsBench               | bench_diff_right_1k_on_10k | 2    | 3   | 85.312mb +0.00%  | 18.955ms +1.84%  | ±0.45% +45.03%                |
| RowsBench               | bench_drop_1k_on_10k       | 2    | 3   | 88.228mb +0.00%  | 1.875ms +10.96%  | ±1.93% +200.87%               |
| RowsBench               | bench_drop_right_1k_on_10k | 2    | 3   | 88.228mb +0.00%  | 1.938ms +14.54%  | ±2.46% +114.55%               |
| RowsBench               | bench_entries_on_10k       | 2    | 3   | 85.340mb +0.00%  | 2.897ms +15.01%  | ±1.68% +197.54%               |
| RowsBench               | bench_filter_on_10k        | 2    | 3   | 85.869mb +0.00%  | 17.051ms +6.26%  | ±0.52% -39.52%                |
| RowsBench               | bench_find_on_10k          | 2    | 3   | 85.869mb +0.00%  | 17.154ms +10.23% | ±0.71% -31.02%                |
| RowsBench               | bench_find_one_on_10k      | 10   | 3   | 83.773mb +0.00%  | 1.994μs +24.62%  | ±2.40% +17272004535663000.00% |
| RowsBench               | bench_first_on_10k         | 10   | 3   | 83.773mb +0.00%  | 0.400μs 0.00%    | ±0.00% 0.00%                  |
| RowsBench               | bench_flat_map_on_1k       | 2    | 3   | 93.123mb +0.00%  | 13.270ms +8.05%  | ±3.68% +494.12%               |
| RowsBench               | bench_map_on_10k           | 2    | 3   | 122.494mb +0.00% | 62.312ms +3.50%  | ±0.73% +187.21%               |
| RowsBench               | bench_merge_1k_on_10k      | 2    | 3   | 86.389mb +0.00%  | 1.498ms +16.06%  | ±2.61% -13.43%                |
| RowsBench               | bench_partition_by_on_10k  | 2    | 3   | 89.740mb +0.00%  | 61.667ms +3.78%  | ±0.54% +72.22%                |
| RowsBench               | bench_remove_on_10k        | 2    | 3   | 88.490mb +0.00%  | 4.220ms +8.19%   | ±3.43% +307.22%               |
| RowsBench               | bench_sort_asc_on_1k       | 2    | 3   | 83.922mb +0.00%  | 41.076ms +4.38%  | ±1.06% +1.86%                 |
| RowsBench               | bench_sort_by_on_1k        | 2    | 3   | 83.923mb +0.00%  | 40.794ms +3.44%  | ±1.41% +48.14%                |
| RowsBench               | bench_sort_desc_on_1k      | 2    | 3   | 83.922mb +0.00%  | 41.608ms +6.49%  | ±0.92% -17.51%                |
| RowsBench               | bench_sort_entries_on_1k   | 2    | 3   | 86.214mb +0.00%  | 7.461ms +0.10%   | ±1.20% +34.37%                |
| RowsBench               | bench_sort_on_1k           | 2    | 3   | 83.773mb +0.00%  | 28.954ms +0.88%  | ±1.26% +201.19%               |
| RowsBench               | bench_take_1k_on_10k       | 10   | 3   | 83.773mb +0.00%  | 14.820μs +9.12%  | ±1.15% +10.12%                |
| RowsBench               | bench_take_right_1k_on_10k | 10   | 3   | 83.773mb +0.00%  | 16.718μs +6.63%  | ±0.84% +6.19%                 |
| RowsBench               | bench_unique_on_1k         | 2    | 3   | 102.593mb +0.00% | 195.568ms +3.83% | ±1.79% +403.77%               |
+-------------------------+----------------------------+------+-----+------------------+------------------+-------------------------------+