Jay @ Designly

Full-stack developer and professional designer.

Madison, WI Joined on May 20, 2022 jay@designly.biz https://jay.designly.biz

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Jay @ Designly

Jun 3 '22

How to Create a Blog Using Next.js and Contentful CMS

#react #nextjs #contentful

19 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Aug 29

Filling the Memory Gap: Building MCPMem to Fix AI Assistant Forgetfulness

#mcp #programming #webdev #ai

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Aug 4

Building a Multi-Modal GPT Agent in TypeScript with OpenAI

#ai #agentaichallenge #typescript #fullstack

24 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Jun 20

Use React-Email to Send Beautiful Emails in Sveltekit

#svelte #react #fullstack

7 min read

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Jay @ Designly

May 4

Create a Universal Button With React + TailwindCSS

#react #tailwindcss #frontend #webdev

4 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Jan 1

Full-Stack Next.js 15 Development Using Zod, Typescript, tRPC, react-query, and Sequelize ORM

#nextjs #fullstack #typescript

13 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Oct 27 '24

How to Create a Scroll Progress Bar in Next.js/React

#nextjs #react #ui #ux

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Oct 14 '24

Push Notifications in Next.js with Web-Push: A Provider-Free Solution

#nextjs #fullstack #pushnotifications #webdev

7 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Sep 25 '24

Build a powerful password meter with Cloudflare Workers, Next.js, and zxcvbn.

#frontend #authentication #uiux #webdev

6 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Sep 24 '24

Clean Up Your Hard Drive: A Script to Delete All Your node_modules Directories

#development #npm #bash

4 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Sep 22 '24

React: Simple Yet Elegant Toast Notifications

#react #ui #frontend

6 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Sep 3 '24

How to Create a Full-Stack Blog with Payload CMS, Next.js and Turbo

#nextjs #payload #fullstack #turbo

11 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Jul 20 '24

Using ENUMs to Make JSX Select Inputs More Type-safe

#typescript #react #nextjs

2 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Jun 2 '24

Use CloudFlare Workers and D1 to Create a Completely Free CRUD API

#backenddevelopment #api

6 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Mar 23 '24

Unlock Web Dev Superpowers with PowerToys

#webdev #devops #tooling #design

4 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Mar 10 '24

Roll Your Own Real-time Chat Server with Next.js and WebSockets

#nextjs #websocket #react #webdev

13 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Mar 6 '24

Please Stop Committing UX Suicide for Sake of Revenue

#ui #frontend #ux #webdev

4 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Jan 10 '24

Next.js 14 Data Fetching Paradigms: Client vs Server

7 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Dec 31 '23

How to Create Your Own Image Optimization / Resizing Service for Practically Free

#imageoptimization #nextjs #php #cloudflareworker

13 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Dec 30 '23

From Concept to Creation: My Story Behind Snoozle

#ai #mobiledevelopment #fullstack #nextjs

2 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Dec 21 '23

Serverless Sucks: How to Deploy your Next.js App to a VPS and Setup a CI/CD Pipeline

#nextjs #cicd #vps #nginx

9 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Dec 16 '23

A Complete Guide to Authentication in Next.js 14

#nextjs #react #authentication #fullstack

12 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Dec 15 '23

How I Used Electron and React to Create a Sweet UI for FFMPEG

#electron #react #crossplatformdevelopment #typescript

6 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Nov 21 '23

How to Use Stunnel Instead of NGROK for Securing Your Dev Server and Why it's Better

#devops #stunnel #ngrok

5 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Nov 6 '23

How to Create an Animated Space / Stars Background Effect in React / Next.js

#frontend #animation #css #nextjs

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Oct 16 '23

GPTCoder - A VS Code Extension

#vscode #development #tooling

2 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Oct 11 '23

Making Typescript More Flexible: Generics and Discriminated Unions

#typescript #react #fullstack

7 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Sep 28 '23

How to Get a Unix-Like Terminal Environment in Windows and Visual Studio Code

#vscode #cmder #terminal #cli

4 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Sep 1 '23

Implementing NProgress in the Next.js 13 App Router

#nextjs #frontend #ui #javascript

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Aug 12 '23

Create an Emoji Selector for Next.js Forms using Tailwind + DaisyUI

#nextjs #tailwindcss #daisyui #frontend

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Aug 2 '23

Implementing a Loading Overlay with next/router Events in Next.js

#nextjs #react #tailwindcss #ui

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Jul 10 '23

Building an AI Search App with Next.js and OpenAI: A Step-by-step Guide

#nextjs #react #semanticsearch #ai

6 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Jul 3 '23

GitHub Copilot vs CodeWhisperer: The Verdict

#githubcopilot #codewhisperer #development #programming

5 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Jun 18 '23

Creating an "Install to Home Screen" Prompt in a Next.js Progressive Web App

#nextjs #pwa #frontend

7 min read

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Jay @ Designly

May 23 '23

How to Create an Attractive File Upload Widget With React/Next.js and Tailwind CSS

#nextjs #react #uidesign #tailwindcss

5 min read

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Jay @ Designly

May 21 '23

React and Tailwind CSS: Making a Typewriter Animation from Scratch

#tailwindcss #nextjs #react #uiux

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

May 18 '23

Animating the Web: Route Transitions in Next.js with Framer Motion

#nextjs #react #ui #framermotion

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

May 17 '23

Enhancing Form Usability with Framer Motion: A Guide to Animated, Chunked Form Transitions

#nextjs #react #framermotion #uidesign

9 min read

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Jay @ Designly

May 3 '23

Easy Dropdown Menus With Next.js and Tailwind CSS

#webdev #react #nextjs #frontend

4 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Apr 24 '23

Creating a Basic Authentication Provider in Next.js

#nextjs #react #authentication #javascript

8 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Apr 22 '23

Building a Universal Form Controller Using Next.js & Yup

#nextjs #react #howto

7 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Apr 20 '23

Facebook Users Have Until August to Claim Share of $725 Million Settlement

2 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Apr 20 '23

Implementing Semantic Search with Supabase, Next.js, and OpenAI: A Tutorial

#chatgpt #semanticsearch #nextjs #backend

12 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Apr 17 '23

Create A Custom Audio Player Component Using React/Next.js, Tailwind & Howler

#react #nextjs #frontend #audio

5 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Apr 11 '23

Create a Google Login Button With No Dependencies in React / Next.js

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Apr 10 '23

How to Create a Verification Code Input Component in React / Next.js

#nextjs #react #frontend #uiux

4 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Mar 31 '23

How to Disable Body Scroll When a Modal Dialog is Open in React / Next.js

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Mar 26 '23

Create a Responsive Animated Sidebar Using React / Next.js and Tailwind CSS

#nextjs #react #tailwindcss #frontend

5 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Mar 14 '23

Host Your Next.js Site on CloudFlare Pages With Next/Image Support For Free

#nextjs #cloudflare #react

7 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Mar 10 '23

Turnstile: CloudFlare's New reCaptcha Replacement in NextJS / React

4 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Mar 8 '23

NextJS 13 / React Single Sign-On (SSO) Authentication Via Azure Active Directory (AD)

5 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Mar 6 '23

Authentication Using NextJS 13 / React & Amazon AWS Cognito

#aws #nextjs #identityserviceproviders

5 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Mar 5 '23

How to Create an Amazon AWS Cognito User Pool

#aws #identityserviceproviders #cloudcomputing

5 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Feb 28 '23

How to Manipulate, Split and Concatenate PDF Files Server-Side

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Feb 27 '23

Internationalization Using React / NextJS 13 and ChatGPT

#ux #productivity #careeradvice

6 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Feb 19 '23

How to Create an Infinite Scroll Component in NextJS / React (Updated)

#nextjs #react

5 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Feb 13 '23

Stop Worrying About Your Google Lighthouse Score

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Jan 26 '23

Create a Star Wars-Like Crawl Using CSS & JavaScript

#typography #frontend #css #javascript

4 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Jan 25 '23

How to Use Google Fonts in a Way Google Likes (SEO)

#watercooler

3 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Jan 23 '23

How I Learned to Shut Up and Love Tailwind CSS

#discuss #productivity #learning

4 min read

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Jay @ Designly

Jan 19 '23

Creating a Modern Hero Image Using NextJS 13 Images and Tailwind CSS

#welcome #career

4 min read