Joost van der Laan

I have spent twelve years building software at FashionUnited, a fashion-industry media and data company. On the side I ship tools in Rust, Python, and Nix.

About Projects

On this site

Work

What those twelve years at FashionUnited covered, split into a few eras.

Projects

A Rust API for a whisky collection, a site of single-page HTML tools, and the Home Assistant setup I run at home.

Thinking

Short notes on models I use for decisions, and on why a plan often fails to become a habit.

Harddrives break a lot. In fact, it is the part of a computer that breaks most of all. While we cannot prevent them from breaking, we can make sure we got a good new drive to begin with, by testing it. Here's how.

Photography Workflow for Linux and MacOS

First of all, you take photos with your camera. When you're happy with the results, you want to import them to your computer to start the rest of the workflow discussed here.

Typefaces Fonts

Generally speaking, there are two types of typography– expressive typography (type is visual, carries the meaning of the word and sometimes appears as physical shapes) and functional typography (type that is meant to be read). I will focus on the latter.