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

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Demo Page for Animate In
animate-in.vercel.app/

React UI Component for animating elements in with Tailwind and CSS Animation (...and plays nice with shadcn)

View this project on github
shipped 1/15/2024

Bucket CMS

Bucket CMS Homepage

Bucket CMS is a portable drop-in AI-enabled headless CMS designed for Next.js

shipped 11/16/2023

Not Yet News

Not Yet News, Speculative Satire from the Future

notyetnews.vercel.app has AI content automatically generated each day

shipped 8/13/2023

Botlywood

Botlywood

Botlywood is an AI Hollywood Movie Generator experiment.

shipped 5/13/2023

Bot Luck

Bot Luck is a fun themed recipe generator

BotLuck is a fun themed recipe generator using Open AI

shipped 2/23/2023

Hot Sauce

Hot Sauce is the fresh hot recipe for better web apps

Hot Sauce combines ReMix, Tailwind UI, Firebase, Stripe, Netlify, Sendgrid and more to go from zero to production-ready web app.

shipped 11/11/2022

Route Chat

Personal Travel Guide to History and Points of Interest

Get your next React project up and running quickly with Next.js, Theme UI, MDX and more.

shipped 7/26/2022

TweenPages

GreenSock plus Next.js

Build complex animated page transitions with Greensock and Next.js.

shipped 9/24/2021

Animated Gradient Background Generator

Animated Gradient Background Generator Tool

Tool for generating CSS Code to create animated gradient backgrounds, as written about on CSS Tricks.

shipped 8/13/2021

Color to Color

Color to Color. Pick Colors. Find clothes that match.

Pick colors. Find clothes that match. Choose any color, browse popular colors or extract a color scheme from a picture.

shipped 5/21/2021

Design System Playground

Design System Playground Screenshot

Play with typography and colors to generate a design system theme.

shipped 5/14/2021

Hello Next App

Hello Next App Website Landing Page

From zero to web app! Launch your next web application with serverless backend, user authentication, automated testing, Stripe integration, a custom design theme and more.

shipped 9/3/2020

Styled System HTML

Styled System HTML Project Page

HTML elements extended as primitive React Components, ready for theming via styled system.

Note: This project is no longer under active development. Recommend using Theme UI.

shipped 9/15/2019

Expressive CSS

Expressive CSS Project Page Screenshot

Expressive CSS follows the atomic approach to writing lightweight, scalable CSS with utility classes that are easy to write and understand.

shipped 6/3/2017

TweenDeck

TweenDeck Demo and Project Page Screenshot

Next level animation for web presentations.

shipped 6/3/2017

Simple Grid Generator

Simple Grid Generator Project Page

A SASS grid generator for creating simple responsive grids.

shipped 7/3/2015

Controldeck.js

Control Deck JS Demo Page

Use controldeck.js to run presentation frameworks like flowtime.js, deck.js, reveal.js and impress.js. Run locally or on a node.js server.

shipped 12/30/2012

Responsivator!

Responsivator Tool

Easily see and share how web pages look at different screen sizes

shipped 10/5/2012

Extra Strength Responsive Grids

Extra Strength Responsive Grids Project Page

Fluid CSS Grid System for Responsive Web Design. Predates Bootstrap’s similar system. Project page is a satire of over-the-counter drug websites.

shipped 9/9/2012

Stacktable

Stacktable Project Page

The new version of the jQuery plugin for doing super cool scrolly stuff with Greensock.

shipped 9/9/2012

BigVideo.js

Big Video JS Demo Page

The jQuery Plugin for Big Background Video (and images)

shipped 8/14/2012

Scrollorama

Scrollorama Demo Page

First ever plugin for doing scroll animations

shipped 1/1/2012

What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?

Slide from What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design? presentation

Introductory presentation to Responsive Web Design using my Scrolldeck.js presentation framework.

shipped 1/1/2012