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

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.

Next.js API Route Handler Utility Function

Handle API Request Code Example

Created a lil’ utility function for handling different request methods and errors on Next.js API routes, called handleApiRequest.

My First Hackathon Win

Most Valuable Award for Howl Hackathon 2023

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

Playing with the Open AI API

Bot Luck, pot luck dinners generated by robots

Inspired by Hassan El Mghari and his projects using AI with Next.js, I created BotLuck, a fun themed recipe generator.

Introducing Hot Sauce

Hot Sauce, the fresh hot recipe for building better web apps

Introduction Hot Sauce, the fresh hot recipe for building better web apps with Remix, Tailwind UI, Firebase, Stripe, Netlify, Sendgrid, and more