John Polacek

Chicago Web Developer

Engineering manager and frontend lead at Howl

My product recommendations at shop.howl.me

Shipping open source on Github

Follow me at @johnpolacek

Animate In

Personal Travel Guide to History and Points of Interest

Introduction < AnimateIn /> a re-usable React component that I’ve made to drop in whenever I want to quickly add some animation effects to my projects

Websites that Create Themselves

Not Yet News, Speculative Satire from the Future

I built Not Yet News to experiment with creating a website that generates its own content.

My First Hackathon Win

Most Valuable Award for Howl Hackathon 2023

Hey, I won an Internal Hackathon competition at my company, my first ever!

Route Chat

Personal Travel Guide to History and Points of Interest

I built a travel app called Route Chat for a fun weekend project

Playing with the Open AI API

Bot Luck, pot luck dinners generated by robots

I used the ChatGPT API to create BotLuck, a fun themed recipe generator.