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Notes from the studio.

Writing on technology, design, VR, AI — and what it takes to ship them. Mostly long, sometimes short, occasionally wrong.

5 MIN

Why we still scan with Matterport in 2026

Photogrammetry got cheaper. Gaussian splats got everywhere. We kept reaching for the same Pro2 we've used since 2019 — here's the unromantic reason.

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5 MIN

Mercedes silver across three light conditions

The brand colour is the same on a phone in São Paulo and a press kit in Stuttgart only if you build a colour pipeline that survives Algarve sunset, Lisbon overcast and studio strobes. Here's the one we use.

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5 MIN

We track no users. Here is what we track instead.

No GA. No Plausible. No fingerprinting. The site you're reading sends one anonymous beacon per session — and we still know everything we actually need.

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