I spend most of my time in browser internals, Rust, and cross-platform apps. The same habits apply when I build a website for a business, so the site ends up small and quick.
Alongside the flagship below, I've built 150+ live site concepts for real Perth businesses. Every one of them went up as a working site before I ever spoke to the owner.
I compete with Team Lebob and built their official site: photo galleries, team info, and project docs on an optimised static build.
Working mockups for real businesses: concreters, law firms, grocers, clinics, financial services. Each one lives on its own preview URL. Ask to see one in your industry ↗
I design and build websites for small businesses the same way I build software. Every page is written for your business and kept small enough to stay quick.
A clean site that loads instantly on a phone and is properly accessible. It's shaped around what your business does rather than squeezed into a template.
Most small-business sites are heavy template builds that crawl on mobile. I spend my days in browser internals and Rust, so I know exactly what makes pages slow, and I leave all of it out.
I research your business, write the copy, and build a working site before we've properly spoken. Our first conversation starts from a page you can already click through, like the previews above.
Taking on web projects for Perth businesses. An email is enough to start.
andre@nijman.com.au ↗Browsers, emulators, robots, and cross-platform apps: the kind of work that only goes well if you understand the layer below it.
A Firefox-based browser focused on a calmer, less cluttered way to browse. I work on desktop features in the open-source codebase.
A lyrics companion with three clients: an Android app (Compose + MediaSession), a Tauri desktop app, and a web build. Synced LRC lyrics, waveform-style seek, CJK romanisation.
A retro game launcher with emulator cores written in Rust: Game Boy, NES, SNES, DS, PlayStation, N64. Drop ROMs in a folder, launch from one command. SDL2 + Vulkan rendering.
A prize-winning underwater soft gripper, built as Team Lebob's FLL innovation project and now fully public. One shaft drives both Fin Ray-style TPU fingers, and there is no separate force sensor: grip force is read from the motor's current. The repo holds the parametric CAD, an FEA campaign of roughly 90 runs, and the ESP32 firmware.
No engine, no asset packs: every sprite is drawn in code and every sound is synthesised. They all run free in the browser, so open a link and play.
I care how tools behave under the hood. Every project gets profiled rather than guessed at, whether it's a browser internal or a small-business landing page.
Off-screen I build robots: I'm design captain of FRC team 4788 “Can't Control” at Curtin University, and I compete with FLL team Lebob.
Day to day I run Void Linux and work out of a terminal. Everything on this page was built with the setup listed here.
Open to interesting projects and collaborations.
The fastest way to get a site started. Tell me what your business does and I'll take it from there.
Find me on GitHub or in the Zen Browser repo, or send an email.