00 — Case Studies

Case Studies

Deeper 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; all of them taught me something I use in the next one.

tools.joostvanderlaan.nl

180+ standalone HTML tools — each 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 to learn real backend Rust instead of just reading about it.

  • Rust
  • Axum
  • PostgreSQL
  • API