Zack Sheppard

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I'm a freelance app and website developer. Brooklyn heart now found in London. Here to share what I learned about development and maybe also about management, acting, and bartending.

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I `Promise` you won't have to `await` long to understand `async` in Javascript

Aug 17, 20219 min read

As you're poking around with modern Javascript, it won't take you long to encounter one of the main asynchronous keywords: Promise, await, or async. So, how do these they work, and why would you want to use them? (And then at the end, some pro-tips f...

I `Promise` you won't have to `await` long to understand `async` in Javascript

Challenging Myself to Make a Product in 72 Hours (with Clerk + Redwood)

Jul 30, 20216 min read

This month's Clerk x Hashnode Hackathon was exciting to me. Authentication is one of those sticky issues that you should never try to make on your own, and the APIs for Clerk seemed mature and easy to use, plus the chance to win some traffic and cash...

Challenging Myself to Make a Product in 72 Hours (with Clerk + Redwood)

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