# Brian Kimball posts tagged "Astro"

> Articles about Astro — systems engineering, development, and infrastructure from Brian Kimball.

- [Welcome to the Atomic Drafting Room](https://brian-kimball.com/blog/atomic-drafting-room/index.md): Why I tore down the Renaissance Technical design and rebuilt the site in Raygun Gothic — atomic starbursts, chrome typography, and a turquoise-coral-gold palette that finally feels like me.
- [Renaissance Technical: Designing with AI](https://brian-kimball.com/blog/renaissance-technical/index.md): How I used OpenCode and Gemini to build a "Renaissance Technical" design system that pits rigid grids against organic circles—and why AI is the brush, not the painter.
- [Building a Type-Safe Full-Stack Starter with Fastify and Astro](https://brian-kimball.com/blog/fastify-astro-starter/index.md): A complete starter template combining Astro, Fastify, tRPC, Lucia, React, NextUI, and Drizzle into a single type-safe monolith.