Will Kessler

Building Auth with Clerk: Tips And Tricks

In May 2024 I officially launched This Is Not A Drill! (TINAD) a web-application user-alerting service. Because this is a service meant for enterprise use, it's critical to offer account and

This Is Not A Drill! In 2 Minutes Flat

Ever had a time when you absolutely, positively had to tell your application users about something critical and unexpected? Maybe it was one of these: * An unanticipated breaking change you accidentally deployed (but

The 30-Day, Idea-To-Production Enterprise-SaaS Challenge

Can one 58-year-old, out-of-step hacker crank out an entire enterprise-grade SaaS in just a single month, with the help of ChatGPT? In November, 2023, I’d successfully built one of the most technically

The evolution of my ChatGPT prompts

Prompt Attempt #1 Produced a bunch of disparate parts, without unity and with a lot of redundancy Create an openapi-2.0 specification for an API used for end-user notifications. This API should allow