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Introducing Canopy: The Living Map of Your Stack
Canopy turns a repo, integrations, a template or an AI prompt into a living architecture map, with spend tracking, ownership, and agent-ready exports like CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and MCP. Meet the architecture canvas built for developers.
How I Built a Beat-Synced UI Showcase Video with Remotion and Claude
A behind-the-scenes look at how I used Remotion to create a fast-paced product showcase for 8StarLabs UI components, synchronized to music and polished with cinematic motion.
Introducing 8StarLabs UI: Open-source react component library
8StarLabs UI is an open-source React component library built on top of shadcn/ui, designed to help you build interactive and unique interfaces faster.
Tham Kei Lok, Wang Jia Hua
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Give Your AI Coding Agent a Map: How CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and MCP Actually Work
AI coding agents reconstruct your architecture from scratch every session. Here's how CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and MCP give them a real map, and why an accurate one changes everything.
I Stopped Drawing Architecture Diagrams. Here's What I Do Instead.
A personal story about years of maintaining architecture diagrams nobody trusted, and the shift to living, structured maps that finally stayed true. Lessons from building at 8StarLabs.
Introducing Canopy: The Living Map of Your Stack
Canopy turns a repo, integrations, a template or an AI prompt into a living architecture map, with spend tracking, ownership, and agent-ready exports like CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and MCP. Meet the architecture canvas built for developers.
Architecture as Data: Why Your System Diagram Should Be Structured, Not Drawn
Diagrams-as-code was step one. The next step is treating your whole architecture as structured data you own: queryable, diffable, and readable by AI agents. Here's what that means and why it matters.
The Best Software Architecture Diagramming Tools in 2026 (Compared)
A practical, no-fluff comparison of the top software architecture diagramming tools in 2026 (Lucidchart, Excalidraw, Eraser, IcePanel, Mermaid, Structurizr, Figma and Backstage), plus when a diagram is the wrong tool entirely.
How I Built a Beat-Synced UI Showcase Video with Remotion and Claude
A behind-the-scenes look at how I used Remotion to create a fast-paced product showcase for 8StarLabs UI components, synchronized to music and polished with cinematic motion.
Introducing 8StarLabs UI: Open-source react component library
8StarLabs UI is an open-source React component library built on top of shadcn/ui, designed to help you build interactive and unique interfaces faster.
Tham Kei Lok, Wang Jia Hua