A small studio for practical, server-rendered web work.

I work between architecture and interface. The aim is software that does the job, explains itself, and can be operated by real people without a runbook.

I prefer simple, well-built software that uses as few dependencies as possible and tools that will still make sense in five years. Server-rendered pages with a small dusting of HTMX usually beat a single-page app for the kind of work clients actually pay for: booking, payments, content, member areas.

My day job at the University of Edinburgh involves data integration, ETL pipelines, and making systems talk to each other. That same thinking carries over to freelance work. If your project needs to pull data from one place and put it somewhere useful, that is well within scope.

This site itself follows the same principle: a Django project, a single hand-written stylesheet, websites embedded as live exhibits, and not a megabyte of JavaScript framework in sight.

If you are reading this because you need a website that works, sends the email it promised, and does not invent a new way to break, that is the kind of work I do.