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Outsourced Software Development Companies: 5 That Got It Right

Google, Alibaba, Slack, Skype and AppSumo all outsourced software development. Two of them are among the largest companies on earth, one was bought...

Andrew Parshukov Andrew Parshukov March 08, 2023 Updated October 14, 2026
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Postgres Array Contains: How to Search Array Columns With ANY, @> and &&

Which Postgres operator answers which array question, tested SQL with the rows each query returns, and the NULL trap in "does not contain" queries.

Vitaly Platonov Vitaly Platonov September 04, 2019 Updated October 13, 2026
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Tech Jargon Decoded: 45 Technical Jargon Terms Every Non-Technical Founder Should Know

Forty-five terms your development team will use with you, grouped by when you will hear them, each with what it means for your product.

Natalie Kaminski Natalie Kaminski January 09, 2024 Updated October 13, 2026
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Editable Prompts and AI Guardrails in Rails with RubyLLM

You tell the model to say nothing about a missing fact. It tells your readers the fact is missing: “Opening hours: Not stated.” When AI generate...

Joao Gilberto Saraiva Joao Gilberto Saraiva October 13, 2026
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How we made an 11-year-old Rails app ready for AI coding agents

What it takes to run several AI coding agents in parallel on an older Rails project, without touching application code.

Igor Froehner Igor Froehner October 07, 2026
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Migrating to RubyLLM 2.0: What We Deleted and What Came Back

We moved a year-old AI client from RubyLLM 1.x to 2.0 and deleted most of it. What 2.0 actually changed, what 1.x had already added and we never...

Islam Gagiev Islam Gagiev September 24, 2026
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Hosting Untrusted, AI-Generated HTML: Three Security Boundaries

Building a self-contained interactive page takes minutes now, and increasingly a model does it. The hosting was built on the assumption that who...

Islam Gagiev Islam Gagiev September 24, 2026
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What Does CPO Mean in Business? CPO vs CTO vs CIO

CPO stands for Chief Product Officer, the executive who owns what a company builds and why. Here is how the CPO differs from the CTO and the CIO, a...

Andrew Parshukov Andrew Parshukov January 30, 2024 Updated September 10, 2026
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8 Non-Technical Founders Who Changed the Tech Landscape

Brian Chesky, Whitney Wolfe Herd and Melanie Perkins all built billion-dollar companies without writing production code. Eight non-technical founde...

Natalie Kaminski Natalie Kaminski August 22, 2023 Updated September 10, 2026

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