# Joost van der Laan

> Personal site of Joost van der Laan — twelve years building software at FashionUnited, shipping side projects in Rust, Python, and Nix. Based in the Randstad, the Netherlands.

This site contains blog posts about technology and web development, a mental models reference library, project showcases, and experimental labs.

## Sections

- [About](https://joostvanderlaan.nl/about): Bio, career background, what I build and how I think.
- [Work](https://joostvanderlaan.nl/work): Twelve years at FashionUnited told as era-based chapters — roles, what shipped, what changed.
- [Projects](https://joostvanderlaan.nl/projects): Side projects including a Rust/Axum Whisky Collection API, a standalone HTML tools site, Home Assistant infrastructure, and this website.
- [Now](https://joostvanderlaan.nl/now): What I'm currently focused on — updated periodically.
- [Models](https://joostvanderlaan.nl/models): A reference library of 120+ mental models — decision frameworks, cognitive biases, and thinking tools.
- [Labs](https://joostvanderlaan.nl/labs): Experimental front-end projects and visual experiments.
- [Blog](https://joostvanderlaan.nl): Posts on typography, web fonts, photography workflows, Markdown, and other technical topics.

## Key links

- Source code: https://github.com/javdl/joost
- Atom feed: https://joostvanderlaan.nl/atom.xml
- Machine-readable site index: https://joostvanderlaan.nl/api.json