Architecture.
All Remiam work tagged Architecture — across client systems, own products, and the studio's field notes.
- 14 Oct 2025→
AI in client systems: building with it, not around it.
Clients in 2025 don't ask us 'should we use AI?'. They ask us where it goes, what it costs to run, and what it can't do safely. Here's the answer we've been giving.
- 25 Mar 2025→
Why we still write CSS in 2025.
Tailwind is on every project. Styled-components died quietly. CSS-in-JS is mostly gone. And yet our team still writes hand-rolled CSS in places — here's why.
- 30 Aug 2024→
Edge installations: when on-prem is a feature, not a compromise.
Some systems belong on the edge. The cloud-first reflex is wrong more often than the industry will admit. Here is the framework we use to decide, the hardware we deploy, and the conversation we always have with clients before specifying.
- 4 Feb 2024→
How Apple Silicon actually works.
Unified memory, performance and efficiency cores, the Neural Engine, the media engine. An honest walk through what Apple's chips do differently — and why it matters for the kind of work we do.
- 21 Sept 2023→
Why we mostly use Supabase now.
Postgres, auth, storage, realtime, edge functions — all in one place, all open-source, all running on infrastructure we can leave at any moment. After two years of production deployments, here's the honest cost-benefit and the patterns we've landed on.
- 8 Oct 2021→
Why we use Nuxt for almost everything we ship.
Nuxt isn't trendy. It's just the right shape for the systems we tend to build — operational, content-heavy, SSR-first, with realtime in the corner. After 30+ production projects, here is the full case, the patterns we default to, and the brief categories where we still reach for something else.
- 9 Mar 2021→
SEO is a feature, not an afterthought.
Most bespoke systems we inherit have SEO bolted on at the end. They never recover. Here's what shipping SEO-first actually looks like, the architectural decisions it forces, and the audit we now run on every new project.
- 26 Nov 2019→
A year of moving everything to TypeScript.
We made the call at the start of 2019: every new project, TypeScript. Every old project, gradual migration. Twelve months on, here's the verdict — what got better, what got harder, and the patterns we now recommend by default.
- 8 Jun 2018→
GDPR is law. Here's what we changed across every client site.
May 25, 2018. A two-year warning shot finally landed. We spent the last six weeks auditing every client system we own — here's the punch list, what it cost, and the architectural decisions every team should be making from here on.