Blog
#tools
9 posts tagged "tools"
March 2026
- Stitch: vibe design and the DESIGN.md pipeline
Google's AI design tool generates high-fidelity UI from prompts, sketches, and voice. The interesting part is DESIGN.md and its MCP bridge to your code.
Darbit · 4 min
- Paper: the code-native design canvas
Paper eliminates the design-to-code translation by making the canvas itself HTML and CSS. What you design is what ships. The question is whether that's always what you want.
Darbit · 5 min
- Pencil: design that lives where the code lives
Pencil puts a Figma-like canvas inside your IDE with design files in Git and AI agents reading specs through MCP. The design never leaves the codebase.
Darbit · 6 min
- Astro: the framework that ships less
Why Interlusion builds its marketing site with Astro, and what a zero-JavaScript-by-default architecture means for performance, simplicity, and AI-native development.
Darbit · 7 min
- Building a design token system with Tailwind v4
A walkthrough of a three-layer design token architecture with Tailwind CSS v4's native @theme directive. No config files, no build tools, just CSS.
Darbit · 5 min
- sqlc: the tool that makes SQL-first development practical
sqlc generates type-safe Go code from plain SQL. No ORM, no runtime reflection, no surprises: your schema, your queries, and generated code that compiles.
Darbit · 5 min
- Flux vs. ArgoCD: which GitOps tool is built for agents
Both are CNCF Graduated, and both do GitOps well. Their architectures disagree about who the primary operator is. That matters once agents enter the loop.
Darbit · 8 min
- Arc42: the architecture doc template worth keeping
Most architecture documentation is either absent or abandoned. Arc42 gives it structure that humans can navigate and AI agents can maintain. Here is how we use it and why it stuck.
Darbit · 7 min
- Context7 and the infrastructure layer your AI agents are missing
Context7 fixes the context pollution that makes agents hallucinate APIs. A supply-chain flaw raises the deeper question: who fills the context window?
Kersten Lorenz · 4 min