[Devember] Nova Tab - Infinite custom dashboard

I’m a full stack software engineer based in Atlanta, Georgia, but I am originally from Danville, Kentucky.

I recently picked up an independent contractor role as a full stack software engineer for the CDC in March of this year before The Thing.

I aim to reinvent the new tab page using the latest web technologies.

This is what I have so far after two weeks of work Nov 6th-20th (Github contribution history to validate this claim).


https://novatab.app

So far, I have a nice way of organizing bookmarks into categories and syncing them across web browsers using a hosted Postgres database on the backend.

The app supports passwordless autentication and a variety of Oauth providers like Github and Google.

While most of the site is static and capable of being distributed through a CDN, the authentication and client data fetching require serverless scaling which can get out of hand pretty quickly for just me on AWS.

I’m super excited to participate in Devember this year! Long time fan of the podcast & recently Ryan’s water bottle collection.