Wesley Smits

Building web experiences for aesthetic businesses. Founder of Lavandré. Specialized in Vue, Nuxt, and modern frontend architecture.

How I Built an AI Operating System for My Business

A practical first-person breakdown of how I used OpenClaw, Telegram, a VPS, and a small team of AI agents to automate parts of my business operations.

16 min readMay 14, 2026•Wesley Smits

11 Visual Studio Code Extensions You Don’t Need

Since Visual Studio Code Extensions can cause performance issues, increase CPU usage, and have conflicts it’s best to limit to the ones you need.

6 min readOct 14, 2022•Wesley Smits

Getting Started with the JavaScript URL Object

If you’ve been a developer for some time you will have undoubtedly worked with URLs before. It’s funny and frustrating at the same time how such a simple thing as URL manipulation can become so messy and prone to errors. In this article, I want to take a deep dive into the JavaScript URL object....

2 min readSep 26, 2022•Wesley Smits

7 Reasons Why TypeScript is Better Than Vanilla JavaScript

Before I used TypeScript on actual projects I used to think it was a waste of time. I thought it would cost a lot of effort to document a type on every variable and function and make custom types and interfaces and more for marginal benefits to my code. Little did I know that I...

6 min readSep 19, 2022•Wesley Smits

How to Use the FormData Object

The JavaScript FormData interface gives us a way to create an object of key-value pairs representing form fields and their values. It uses the same format a form would use if the encoding type were set to “multipart/form-data”. This makes it easy to format form data before sending it alon

3 min readSep 9, 2022•Wesley Smits

How to Use The Native JavaScript Share API

The native Web Share API lets you allow users to share text, links, and files to other apps installed on the device in the same way as platform-specific apps. Let’s take a look at how to use this new feature.

3 min readSep 5, 2022•Wesley Smits

Design Patterns in TypeScript: Observer Pattern

In this series, we are looking at various design patterns, their implementation in TypeScript, and how they improve your life as a developer. If you haven’t read the previous articles in the series on Design Patterns in TypeScript you might want to check them out, since the difficulty of patterns in

4 min readAug 31, 2022•Wesley Smits

Design Patterns in Typescript: Singleton Pattern

The Singleton Pattern is one of the most accessible and popular design patterns. This Design Pattern solves two problems at the same time.

3 min readAug 27, 2022•Wesley Smits