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We built a simple RAG system based on our company principles with open source tooling.

The activerecord-mysql-search gem provides a powerful, easy-to-use solution for implementing full-text search in Ruby on Rails applications using MySQL’s native capabilities. It offers fast, scalable and flexible search without the complexity of any external services.

It is possible to manage imports.tf with a simple script instead of managing terraform.tfstate. In contrast to the state, imports.tf doesn’t contain credentials and can be safely managed with source version control systems.

POC: Minimal ZIP implementation for downloads without delays and dependencies.

We were back to another side hustle. COVID, pragmatism, and bureaucracy wearing us down. In November 2020, German health departments struggled to keep up with the spreading COVID-19 pandemic. They were expected to call every infected person, mandate quarantine and ask whom they met in the infectious period. Then every such contact person was called as well to ask about details of the contact and decide about quarantine. The Bundeswehr helped calling but the whole process was so slow that some people were called weeks after their critical contact. ...

Our first side-hustle. GDPR requires companies to answer authenticated privacy inquiries within 30 days. For many websites, proving control of the user’s email account is sufficient to authenticate, e.g. for a password reset. GDPR inquiries sent from this address can thus hardly be considered as unauthenticated. With IamOut, we provided a generator for legally correct inquiry emails and followed up with free (for the user) legal support. User experience Choose a company from a list and provide the email address they signed-up with at that company Choose the desired action: retrieve information about stored data or delete all data or revoke permission to use the data for marketing purposes Receive a mailto-link by email, i.e., a link that generates the appropriate email to the service provider within the user’s email program Optionally request the system to remind them with another email, after the legal deadline for a reply by the company has expired ...