Hi, I’m Jacques.

I’m a software engineer and co-founder of Fudge, where I build AI agents. I try out new models and tools and write about what I learn.

Around here

What I’m building at Fudge, side projects, and earlier work.

My programming tutorials, conference talks, and courses.

How building a popular Facebook app at 14 got me started.

Project · 2026–present

A website and public API for exploring South African local election results.

Video · 29 Mar 2021

Build a small version of useState to understand how hooks preserve values between renders and keep multiple counters independent.

Talk · 25 Dec 2021

How we used the browser to render video at Milk Video, keeping clips, scenes, and captions in sync.

Article · 16 Dec 2020

Test a React app against a mocked API with MSW, including loading, empty, and error states.