CSS
What two years of container queries in production actually taught us
Container queries moved from experimental curiosity to a core layout tool. A look back at how our component architecture actually changed because of them.
Servorien Journal
Notes on design,
code, and craft
Field notes from the Servorien team — practical write-ups on the tools, frameworks, and process behind the work we ship.
Category
WP
AI-suggested layouts inside the WordPress block editor
A plugin we built suggests full block-based page layouts from a short content brief, giving editors a real starting point instead of a blank canvas.
DB
Isolating AI agent database access with dedicated read replicas
Agents running exploratory queries against production data risked real performance impact. Dedicated read replicas gave them room to work without that risk.
APP
Using an AI agent to pre-flight App Store and Play Store review issues
Store review rejections were a recurring, frustrating delay. An agent that checks a build against current store guidelines before submission has cut that friction sharply.
VUE
Vapor Mode is now the default renderer for new Vue components
After more than a year of gradual, opt-in adoption, Vue's Vapor Mode has matured enough to become the default rather than the exception.
CLD
Revisiting consistency tradeoffs after two years of edge-first architecture
Edge-first has been our default for a while now. A close look at where eventual consistency has actually caused real problems, and where it hasn't mattered at all.
OPS
Using AI-generated tests to enforce coverage gates without slowing releases
Requiring high test coverage used to trade off against release speed. Generating solid test scaffolding automatically removed most of that tension.
TW
Keeping Tailwind design tokens in sync automatically from Figma
An automated pipeline now keeps our Tailwind v4 CSS-based theme in sync with Figma variables without a manual export step in either direction.
RCT
Server Components are now the default, not the exception, in our React apps
What started as an experimental pattern a few years ago has become the unremarkable default starting point for new React features.
CLD
Building one operations dashboard across three cloud providers
Running production workloads across three different cloud providers left us checking three different dashboards. We finally built one unified view.
OPS
Tracing production incidents back to the specific agent-generated change
With a growing share of code originating from agent execution, our observability stack needed to attribute incidents to the originating change with more precision.
JS
Standardizing every project, old and new, on one Vite-Bun toolchain
After a year of gradual consolidation, we finished migrating our remaining legacy projects onto the same Vite-Bun toolchain everything else already used.
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