Labs
Experiments and interactive demos
Dabbling with web tech
- The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML — the ThariqS/html-effectiveness example gallery (Apache-2.0), recreated in this site’s styling

Photo Effects
· 3 min · Quick read · Joost van der LaanTwelve Photoshop photo-effect actions rebuilt as pure CSS — halftone, glitch, prism, dither, chromatic aberration — over a photo you can swap
VHS Tape Text
· 4 min · Article · Joost van der LaanTypography run through a composite-video signal chain — chroma bleed, tape warble, aperture grille and CRT bloom, in one canvas

Magnetic Type
· 1 min · Quick read · Joost van der LaanPer-glyph pointer distortion on display text — spring physics, hairline ghosts, one accent

Nothing Happens
· 1 min · Quick read · Joost van der LaanA lavender field, a hairline, eight seconds of silence — then one event, once

Soft Bodies
· 1 min · Quick read · Joost van der LaanDraggable Verlet-integrated blobs with distance constraints and area preservation — grab them, fling them, pile them up

Zes
· 1 min · Quick read · Joost van der LaanSix Dutch affirmations from a set of cards made for my kid, appearing word by word in the warm palette they were designed in

Dot Field
· 2 min · Quick read · Joost van der LaanA cursor-reactive dot grid in the site design tokens — spring physics, no libraries, canvas 2D

Design Tokens
· 8 min · Article · Joost van der LaanThe living design-token contract: every color, type style, scale step, and component, generated straight from DESIGN.md

Gradients & P3
· 5 min · Article · Joost van der LaanSnazzy colors with Display P3 colors - see the difference between sRGB and P3 color spaces