00. Case studies

Case Studies

Closer looks at projects I’ve built. The problem, the approach, what the stack actually looked like, and what came out of it. Some are professional work, some are side projects. Each one taught me something I use in the next one.

tools.joostvanderlaan.nl

180+ standalone HTML tools. Each one is a single page that does one job, with no framework and no build step.

  • HTML
  • Python
  • uv
  • Playwright

Whisky Collection API

A Rust/Axum API for tracking whisky collections, built so I would write real backend Rust instead of only reading about it.

  • Rust
  • Axum
  • PostgreSQL
  • API