The Forge
Technology
Building software as a clinician — and why the tools we're handed rarely fit.
5 posts
The cloud is just someone else's computer — and your patient's data is asleep on it
Most clinical tools assume the data should live in someone else's data centre. For a great deal of what clinicians build, that assumption is quietly backwa
Your femur is hollow, and it did that on purpose
A long bone resists bending far better than the solid rod it could have been — at the same weight. The reason is geometry, not material, and the skeleton w
I replaced an enterprise system with a laptop and a weekend
A single SQLite file did what a six-figure platform could not. Sometimes that is the right call, and sometimes it is a trap. Race the queries and decide.
Why surgeons should build their own software
The tools clinicians are given are built by people who have never carried a bleep. The gap between workflow and software is a design brief.
Your screen is lying about colour, and that's the clever part
A phone screen has no yellow pixels, yet shows you yellow. That isn't a cheat — it's additive RGB and the quirks of your own eye, doing exactly their job.