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

Journal · 8 min OVH Shared Hosting in 2026: What PHP 8.3 Can (and Can't) Run → OVH shared hosting runs PHP 8.3 well in 2026 — if you accept no root, no long-running processes, and tight cron limits. Here's exactly what it can and can't do. Journal · 7 min VR in Hospitals: What Clinicians Actually Need (and What Vendors Oversell) → Field notes on VR in hospitals: what clinicians actually need — cleanable hardware, sub-minute setup, zero login friction, measurable outcomes — versus the demo-reel features vendors oversell. Journal · 8 min How to build a recommender system without user tracking → A recommender system without user tracking is built on content features and session-local signals, not cross-user profiling. Here is how we ship one — and the accuracy we trade away. Journal · 5 min Why we charge by sprint, not by hour → Hourly billing rewards slow people. Per-project billing rewards over-promising. Two-week sprints reward the only thing that matters: shipping something. Journal · 7 min The JavaScript framework performance cost you never put on the invoice → The real JavaScript framework performance cost isn't the download — it's parse time on cheap phones, hydration, energy, and years of churn. Here's how we measure it. Journal · 7 min Working With a Web Design Studio in Portugal: How We Actually Operate → A web design studio in Portugal, based in Leiria and Lisboa. How a small senior team works: sprint-based, bespoke, engineering plus design plus 3D capture in-house. Journal · 6 min What it takes to ship a Class I medical VR app → Most VR teams ship when the team thinks it's good. A Class I medical device ships when a regulator says so. Here's the gap, and what it cost us to close it. Journal · 6 min Designing accessible VR for hospitals → A VR app for a clinic isn't designed for the engineer who built it. It's designed for the 84-year-old patient who's never held a controller. Here's what changes. Journal · 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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