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

Lukasz Pudlo works at the University of Edinburgh and runs a small freelance studio alongside it. The work tends to be Django on the backend, server-rendered HTML on the front, and deployment kept deliberately small enough to maintain in a sitting.

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

The bias is to ship clean, to keep the moving parts few, and to choose tools that will still be approachable 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.

The 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.

The site itself follows the studio's 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 this studio is for.