Tools

Know what's in the toolbox

What each tool is, how it's licensed, and when a dev would actually reach for it.

Databases & backends

Relational, document, embedded, and vector stores, plus the backends and ORMs around them.

MongoDB

Document database

Stores JSON-like documents with flexible schemas and scales horizontally with sharding. Commonly run through the managed Atlas service.

Game development

From browser-first renderers and 2D frameworks to full engines, plus physics, level editors, and free assets.

Defold

Source-available

Cross-platform editor and Lua game engine

An editor and runtime built around game objects, components, collections, Lua scripting, and a cross-platform build pipeline.

Unreal Engine

Source-available

High-end 3D game engine

Epic's engine for high-fidelity 3D, with C++ and Blueprints visual scripting, and built-in rendering features like Nanite geometry and Lumen lighting. Also used for film and visualization.

AI agent skills

Installable skill folders that teach a coding agent one specific job — design direction, polish, accessibility, design systems.

frontend-design

Source-available

Aesthetic direction skill

Anthropic's Claude Code plugin skill for new UI work: the agent commits to a clear aesthetic direction — typography, layout, color — before writing code, instead of reaching for template defaults.