— Journal · RSS
Notes from the studio.
Writing on technology, design, VR, AI — and what it takes to ship them. Mostly long, sometimes short, occasionally wrong.
Journal · · 4 min
A business card that is an app
We replaced our paper business cards with one web address per person: a profile, a pocket card the QR code opens, and an installed app that shows the QR — even without signal. No app store, no NFC, nothing for the other person to install. How it works, and the small details that decide whether the phone says “Add contact”. Journal · · 4 minGive an AI agent a goal and a way in, and it will use both
An OpenAI agent doing harmless research got into an Australian government portal it was never meant to reach. A Gemini model in a security test guessed its way into three real companies. Neither was malicious. That is exactly the point — and it changes how agents should be built. Journal · · 4 minVR just turned into a pair of glasses
At Connect, Meta showed VR glasses that weigh about 100 grams, with the battery and the chip moved to a puck in your pocket. They arrive in spring 2027 and cost $1,299.99. What changes when the headset stops being a headset — and what doesn't. Journal · · 4 minThe EU AI Act after the Omnibus: what applies now, and what moved
The high-risk rules moved to December 2027 and August 2028. The transparency rules did not move at all — they have applied since 2 August. A plain map of where the EU AI Act stands after the Digital Omnibus, and what a Portuguese company shipping AI should do with the extra time. Journal · · 4 minAmazon blocked Meta's AI agent. It had a point.
Meta's Muse shopped on Amazon with its users' passwords and without saying what it was. Amazon switched it off. Strip away the corporate rivalry and the question is one every site owner now has: what should an AI agent have to do before it walks into your shop? Journal · · 4 minApple will train its AI on your data — if you say yes
With iOS 27, Apple's promise that your data is never used to train its models gained a clause: unless you choose to help. Opt-in is the decent version of this. It is also a reminder that a privacy promise written in a policy is only as strong as the next policy. Journal · · 6 minWe rebuilt our own site by removing things
Two stylesheets, two bundles, two copies of every template — and a flag that had answered the same way for months. What came off, what it weighed, and how we proved nothing broke. Journal · · 7 minThe tender radar that found nothing on day one
210 tenders collected, none of them ours. Instead of loosening the filters, we asked why — and found an encrypted PDF, a €677 alert subscription, and a public API nobody documents. Journal · · 9 minCustom E-Commerce vs Shopify: When Building From Scratch Is the Right Call
Most brands should use Shopify. Four signals tell you when a custom build is actually the cheaper option — with a real luxury commerce platform as the proof.— The journal, by email
— Next steps
Tell us what was only ever described.
Start a build
or write to info@amplifiedcreations.com · a senior member of the team answers