Mike Riethmuller

Software developer who loves to bridge the gap between performance, scalability, and user experience.

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Keystone 5 is a scalable platform that allows you to create a highly customised CMS and API in minutes.

August 2019 · 5 min read

Designing beyond the median user
For seventy years software has shipped one shape to every user. The confluence of design systems, headless platforms, and agent-native exposure has coalesced to make that constraint optional. A retrospective of the median-user problem and the new architectural horizon now opening.
June 2026 · 10 min read
What engineering teams owe for the AI speed boost
AI-assisted development genuinely accelerated engineering teams, but many organisations stopped at the velocity gains and ignored the accumulating debt. The costs: code nobody fully understands, weakened code review culture, bloated dependency trees, and architectural decisions made without real judgement about tradeoffs...
May 2026 · 4 min read
A behavioural framework for the monsters in your team
The AI in Design 2026 report captures a profession mid-mutation. The "Frankenjob" label the coverage put on it misses the seam where the real work happens.
May 2026 · 5 min read

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