Cal Freitas

I am an Engineering Manager at PublicSquare. I am a Principal Front-End Engineer by trade. At Swarzy, I built Verses for Life and Psalmlist.

The new Verses for Life website

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The new Verses for Life website is live! Memorize Bible verses from the Topical Memory System, Roman Road, and about Prayer.

The new website features a modern website built using Next.js, React.js, and Tailwind CSS.

On the back-end, I’m using the API.Bible API with the Digital Bible Library (for licensing Bible content), and Redis for caching.

The new website version includes ESV, KJV, Contemporary English Version, and versions in Deutsch (German), Español (Spanish), Italiano (Italian), हिन्दी (Hindi), and ไทย (Thai) – available from the Settings page.

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Swarzy Website Refresh

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The Swarzy website has been revamped with updated information about the services provided, a showcase of projects for recent clients, and links to apps Swarzy has built.

Swarzy is built using Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS.

PageSpeed Insights screenshot

I spent time optimizing the site and it’s getting good results.
PageSpeed Insights: 98 for Performance and 100 each for accessibility, best practices, and SEO.

I’m starting to gather RUM (real user metrics) of Web Vitals using a trial version of RUMvision.

To get to this speed, I had to do a couple of important things:

1) ditch the third-party JavaScript for my email form and do a direct API integration.

2) Optimize image loading. “next/image” makes big promises, but if used carelessly it can damage your performance.

Visit Swarzy

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When Andrew Crapuchettes calls, you should answer

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I got a phone call from Andrew Crapuchettes in December.

He asked, “Are you available? We need your help.”

Here we are in February and the RedBalloon website has re-launched with a fresh design, a new homepage, new navigation, and a lot of other revamped features. I’ve enjoyed jumping in and helping their excellent team get the new launch out the door and off to a good start.

Good timing, too – RedBalloon is getting a traffic boost from freedom-loving people who want to find employment from companies who respect their values.

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