Learning Two Frameworks by Bridging Them Together (Redwood + Clerk)

Jul 26, 20216 min read

TLDR; I set out to make an app using Redwood and Clerk. I wound up learning them both by making the 1st party integration between them instead. It will be in version 0.35.3, currently in canary, of Redwood. There are many snarky truisms about full-st...

Learning Two Frameworks by Bridging Them Together (Redwood + Clerk)

It Shouldn't be an App

Jul 19, 20214 min read

Recently, I've run into a few big ideas that make me feel like it's 2010 all over again. In the worst way. They remind me that back in the heady days of 2010, we were fools for apps. Need to know what song is playing on the radio right now? App! Are ...

It Shouldn't be an App

No Regrets, Even for the Pointless Projects

Jun 14, 20213 min read

With much fanfare and celebration Tweet Sweep launched! Well, fanfare and celebration by me, at least. Three months of work, about $100 of spend on things like domain names and web hosting, and what happened? Nothing. Two weeks after I put it live, f...

No Regrets, Even for the Pointless Projects

Speedy and Stylish - How to style NextJS with Bootstrap 5, SASS, and PurgeCSS

Jun 10, 20215 min read

Quick how-to for you today. I'm setting up a new web app project with these parameters: I want it to be based on Next.JS because it's my favorite React framework. I want to style it with Bootstrap 5 because I need more help setting up a consistent t...

Speedy and Stylish - How to style NextJS with Bootstrap 5, SASS, and PurgeCSS

How To: Deploy Next.js Apps with Docker Containers (Efficiently!)

Jun 7, 202110 min read

So let's say you've written an awesome app in Next.js and you want to deploy it to a nifty containerized platform like Digital Ocean or Fly.io. But let's say that you, like me at the start of last week, have never containerized a Node app before and ...

How To: Deploy Next.js Apps with Docker Containers (Efficiently!)

App 101: What is a Work Queue and how to make one in Node

May 17, 20216 min read

A lot of the details about building an app are mysterious, even if you've been a programmer for years. So, I'm going to bundle up some of the discussions I've had with friends who are starting their own apps into these App101 posts. Follow along and ...

App 101: What is a Work Queue and how to make one in Node