Code
I like to code (mostly using JavaScript/TypeScript and CSS,
occasionally wrangling SQL). It started as a hobby, then it became my
profession. I usually build user interfaces for startups.
These days, I let Claude do most of the coding. I describe what I
want, review the result, and steer. It feels like a natural next step
after years of model-driven development: from writing code to
generating it, and now to just asking for it.
Below are a few side projects and experiments of mine.
As my projects got stars and forks on GitHub, a network emerged, so I
made another little project to
visualize it. Give one of my projects a
star on GitHub
and you'll appear as a blue dot on the graph.
I am passionate about model-driven architecture (usually found in
no-code/low-code platforms, code generators, and complex data
visualizations), and more specifically model-driven UIs.
Working on a model-driven project is basically automating my own
craft. I find it especially rewarding because, beyond the efficiency,
it provides a unique feedback loop that helps me better understand
structures and patterns in UX, in software architecture, and in my own
thinking.
Naturally, for many years, my biggest side project was a model-driven
framework (front
and
back
ends) to build applications with models rather than code. It generates
UI views (list, cards, edit, browse, dashboard...) and API endpoints
at runtime to display and mutate objects of different data structures
based on a single model per entity. I called it "Evolutility", which
in biology means "the ability to change form, volume, and structure as
a result of nutrition". More on that in
my thoughts on the topic.
My favorite
quote about programming
is:
Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the
other way around.
- Eric S. Raymond.
