Tech Radar

What Straw Hat Team reaches for by default, what we are still trying out, and what we would rather nobody started something new with.

The radar is a view over decisions, not a replacement for them. A blip says where something sits today; the ADRs say why. Read how it works before arguing about a ring.

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Edition 2026.2 · 2026-08-17

Techniques

Ways of working, practices, and design approaches.

Adopt

• 1. Architecture Decision Records
• 2. Diátaxis Documentation Structure
• 3. Human-Readable IDs
• 4. Structured URLs

Trial

• 5. CloudEvents

Tools

Software we run to build, verify, or operate things.

Adopt

• 6. GitHub Actions
• 7. pnpm

Trial

• 8. Mermaid
• 9. VitePress

Platforms

Things we build on top of, such as runtimes, infrastructure, and hosted services.

Adopt

• 10. OpenTelemetry

Trial

• 11. GitHub Pages

Languages & Frameworks

Programming languages and the libraries we write code against.

Adopt

• 12. Elixir
• 13. Tailwind CSS

Trial

• 14. Zod