Derrick Shaw
Hey there 👋
I'm Derrick Shaw
and I Make Websites and React Web Apps
This is my personal portfolio. I am a freelance web developer, specializing in efficient and snappy static websites built with AstroJS. I make awesome websites for your businesses that are fast, responsive, and focused on world class performance and top-notch SEO rating. This means you will always have a top spot on Google searches.
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Amarillo NAACP Website

Amarillo NAACP Website
NEW

I had the amazing oppotunity to build the new Amarillo NAACP website. This site is built with SquareSpace. I made this decision to build on top of te old site for sake of sanity and I was curious about what SP was all about since I normally don't use site builders.
Amarillo Food Not Bombs Recipe Repo

Amarillo Food Not Bombs Recipe Repo
NEW

Part of the outreach I do in my community is helping with our local Food Not Bombs chapter. FNB is an anarchist collective whose goal is to offer free, nutritious food to the community. We have a lot of recipes and I figured an easily accessible repository would be useful.
YCWD Y Que AstroJS Theme

YCWD Y Que AstroJS Theme
TEMPLATE

This is the landing page template I wrote for my freelance web development. The goal is to offer all the main elements in a single page layout that feels organic in th way the information is presented.
Bad Affirmations App

Bad Affirmations App
FOSS

An Android app written in React Native as part of my 12 App Challenge. Instead of daily good affirmations, it generates daily humours bad affirmations. This app was inspired by a joke among Discord friends.

android React Native 12 App Challenge
Human to Animal Year Conversion App

Human to Animal Year Conversion App
FOSS

An Android app written in React Native. This app, like the affirmation app started as a joke among friends. It's basically just a tool to convert human years into various animal years based on calculated lifespan.

android React Native 12 App Challenge
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My Freelance Website is now live!

My Freelance Website is now live!
Hello, world

A few months ago, I was working on learning ReactJS, but stumbled upon a framework with a lot of ReactJS-isms but built for making static websites. That Framework was AstroJS. What Astro does is it allows for static [...]