Over the weekend I got inspired to try Stitch, an AI-assisted vibe-design tool that helps people like me who struggle to land a solid color scheme from scratch. I wanted the redesign to feel like computers: CRT glow, system diagnostics, and a clean machine-room aesthetic. I used that as a starting point and pushed it toward something unmistakably technical, because if you are reading this, that is exactly what you are going to get from me.
Now, you might have reservations about AI, and honestly, I get it. RAM prices are up, every product launch has “AI-powered” stamped on it, and the hype is exhausting. But after years of working with it, one thing has stayed true: whenever I ask AI to do something creative, I am still the one who has to shape the result. Creativity and judgment are human. The design you see here was AI-assisted, but I reviewed every decision, pushed back constantly, and steered it the whole way.
That is how I think about AI: it augments my workflow, it does not run it. I am in control over everything that is written.
So what is new?
A dedicated light and dark mode toggle
The color theme now actually means something, rather than being thrown together. Previously I was modelling it after an anime that had triangles as a heavy motif in its intro. At the same time, I got a bit obsessed with black and red. Dark mode looked great; light mode looked like a paint explosion due to the anime. They never felt like two sides of the same coin.
That’s the problem Stitch solved for me. Instead of hastily throwing colors together, it gave me something I could actually work with — a cohesive foundation that I could then tweak and refine. Now they are deliberate counterparts to each other. Every dark and light color is a thoughtful pair, not an afterthought. There is also a dedicated toggle with three states: light, dark, and system — which just follows whatever your OS is set to.
A refreshed theme
Home page before and after
Before and after comparisons of the 2026 redesign
The theme is an evolution of what I had before, pushed further toward the direction I always wanted: futuristic, technical, unmistakably computer-brained. This is just the start: the site will keep evolving. This design is an evolution from what I had before, not a total redesign.
Getting there was not painless. Stitch kept refusing to output a proper 1:1 light and dark mode, which drove me up the wall. But what it did give me was a solid foundation: a “Copy to Clipboard” export that generates an HTML page with Tailwind 4 baked in, which I used as a starting point. I did not use any of the art Stitch generated, and I had to discard a lot of it because it felt tacky and obviously AI-made. In the end, only about 25% of what Stitch produced made it into production.
I do not actually use Tailwind, though. I use unocss. Tailwind is opinionated by design: CSS Variables everywhere, layers everywhere, and good luck trying to opt out of any of it. That level of opinion is limiting when you need precise control.
With unocss I can target exactly what I need. That matters to me because I work across a lot of older platforms that people use every day without realizing they are web-based. I am always conscious of every byte of HTML, JS, and CSS that ships.
My take on AI, the New World of Coding
Yes, I utilize AI. But let me be clear about what that actually looks like: AI augments my workflow, it does not run it.
Here is the thing, though: I understand the pressure. In this new world of coding, everyone expects extremely faster output. There is an unspoken expectation in work that if a tool exists to speed you up, you should use it: if you don’t, well, you’re just working harder for the same result. If I refused to touch AI, I would be grinding nights and weekends just to keep up. That is not a principled stance; that is just burnout in slow motion. So I use it. But I use it with care.
I will never, ever hand my workflow to AI and skip review. Every output gets checked by me before it ships.
I am in the loop at every step. I review the output, push back when something is off, and make the final call. My frustration is not with the tool itself: it is with the expectation that AI should replace creativity entirely. I have yet to encounter a piece of AI-generated art that stands on its own as something genuinely meaningful. Creativity is still human.
To me, AI is infrastructure: no different from a computer or an operating system. It helps me write faster, phrase things more clearly, and stay in flow when I sit down with my morning cup of tea. It handles the mechanical parts so I can spend more energy on the parts that actually need a human.
AI is not here to replace people. It is here to work alongside them. The sooner we treat it that way, the better we will all get at using it well.