kernveld.com
Simulations, small games, and interactive web experiments, all built with minimal dependencies.
Projects
A handmade Eleventy site with a live in-browser customizer for color, typography, and layout presets.
Design and share marble tracks with physics-based gameplay. Build levels, play community creations, and vote on your favourites.
Build resource networks and production and incrementally scale a satisfying logistics simulation
Blog
About
I'm Jonathan Vander Hout. I've been building software professionally since 2018. I started out on the web: Node and Express on the backend, Angular and Vue on the front, with a lot of JavaScript spent on data visualization, WebSocket feeds, and generally making things move in a browser. These days I lead software at a small company building data systems for wind farms, which has pulled me deeper into Python, C#, PostgreSQL, Linux administration, and reverse-engineered serial and TCP protocols.
The projects and posts on this site lean back toward the web: simulations, small games, and experiments built with deliberately minimal dependencies. They usually start with a curiosity, like how physics engines actually work, what a satisfying logistics game feels like, or how fast a plain Python server can really go, and end up as something interactive.