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Notes from the porch.
Short pieces on regulation, clinical compliance, and the architecture of a product that has to cross the consumer-clinical line correctly.
19 May 2026 · 4 min read
Disguise mode is first-class
Hiding the app icon and name is not a setting tucked three menus deep. It is the reason a whole class of users can use Stoa at all.
12 May 2026 · 4 min read
FHIR-mediated, not FHIR-direct
Why Stoa exports a FHIR R4 bundle the therapist's EHR imports, instead of writing directly to e-veselība. The choice is the entire regulatory strategy.
5 May 2026 · 3 min read
The regulation gap
Between 'I am panicking right now' and 'I have a therapy appointment in three months' is an empty quadrant. Nobody serious owns it.