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    <lastBuildDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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      <title>Flutter or React Native: how we choose for a client app</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The six questions that decide between Flutter and React Native for a new app, when the answer is native, and what each choice costs two years later.</description>
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      <title>RAG or fine-tuning for enterprise documents: how to choose</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What retrieval and fine-tuning each change, how cost, latency, citations and data residency decide between them, and how to measure accuracy honestly.</description>
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      <title>Working with an Indian development team from the US: a practical guide</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Time-zone maths for Eastern and Pacific, a working cadence, contracts and IP, USD invoicing, data protection, a two-week trial and the failure modes.</description>
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      <title>Getting an app through store review without losing a week</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Why apps are rejected by App Store and Google Play review, the checklist we run before every submission, and how to make a rejection cost a day, not a week.</description>
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      <title>An evaluation set before a model: how we test an LLM feature</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Why the first deliverable of an LLM feature is a set of real questions with agreed answers, how to build one in a week, and the five numbers to report.</description>
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      <title>Fixed price or time and materials: how to choose</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What each engagement model protects you from and exposes you to, the questions that decide between them, and the hybrid most product builds end up with.</description>
      <category>outsourcing</category>
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      <title>Working with an Indian development team from the UK</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Overlap hours between London and Ahmedabad, a cadence that uses them, UK GDPR paperwork for an offshore processor, contracts, invoicing and what to ask.</description>
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      <title>Working with an Indian development team from the UAE and Saudi Arabia</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Near-full overlap hours, the working week and Ramadan, UAE and Saudi data protection law, data residency in a Gulf cloud region, Arabic and contracts.</description>
      <category>outsourcing</category>
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      <title>What a tender evaluator checks on a software vendor&apos;s website</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The eligibility facts an Indian public-sector evaluator verifies before reading a technical bid, where each is checked, and how a vendor&apos;s website helps.</description>
      <category>govtech</category>
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      <title>The weekly demo, and what it prevents</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Why every engagement gets a thirty-minute demo of working software each week, how the meeting runs, and the five expensive surprises it makes impossible.</description>
      <category>product-engineering</category>
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      <title>When a problem needs machine learning, and when a rule will do</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The test we apply before proposing a model: whether a rule, a query or a lookup solves the problem first, and what a model costs to keep running.</description>
      <category>ai</category>
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      <title>The handover pack: what you should receive when a build ends</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The eleven things a finished software project should hand you, from the repository and the runbook to the keys, and what to ask if any of them is missing.</description>
      <category>product-engineering</category>
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      <title>Offline first: designing a field app for poor connections</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How a field app keeps working without a network: local storage, a sync queue, conflict rules, honest status on screen, and the tests that prove it.</description>
      <category>mobile</category>
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      <title>Hosting a government system in India: empanelled clouds, audits and data residency</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What a public body&apos;s tender expects of hosting: an empanelled cloud or state data centre, data kept in India, a security audit before go-live and readable logs.</description>
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