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Lucy Macartney

About me

Hi there, I'm Lucy 👋🏻. I'm a British software developer living in Cali, Colombia with professional experience building applications with React, Next.js, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. I’m also a technical writer with experience writing comprehensive documentation. I love making things easy for everyone to understand 🤓. In my free time, I enjoy writing technical and non-technical blog posts, contributing to open source projects and salsa dancing!

Latest blog posts

Our Sanity and Next.js open source starter project Our Sanity and Next.js open source starter project
This blog post follows on from my previous blog post and talks through how I built an open source page builder. I talk through how I put the project together, steps to help you get started with it and I share some lessons and insights I picked up along the way


Exploring Sanity’s Headless CMS: A First-Time User's Perspective Exploring Sanity’s Headless CMS: A First-Time User's Perspective
I tried out Sanity's CMS for the first time while working at Skyward and wrote this to talk about my first impressions. Check this out if you'd like to learn what makes Sanity a great headless CMS option.




Build a shopping cart in Next.js with use-shopping-cart and Stripe Build a shopping cart in Next.js with use-shopping-cart and Stripe
Are you looking for an easy way to build a shopping cart for your Next.js website? With the use-shopping-cart library and Stripe, you can quickly and easily create a powerful shopping cart. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add Stripe Checkout and shopping cart functionality to a simple pre-built Next.js project. Whether you're building for ...

Recent projects

  • Fresh fruit shop: A simple fruit shop application integrated with Stripe, built using Next.js and TailwindCSS. This repository also includes starter code in case you'd like to follow along my tutorial on Hashnode.
  • Lightning: A simple game to practice your English speaking skills, built using Next.js and TailwindCSS (still in progress).

Older projects

  • DanceApp: An online platform for teachers to share unlisted YouTube videos with their dance students. Full stack application built in 2021 using Python, Django, JavaScript, and Bootstrap.

Get in touch

I'm always ready and open to work on new and challenging things. I usually work on software development and technical writing freelance projects. Want to know more?

Lucy Macartney's Projects

candy icon candy

Candy is a CLI tool that offers a fundamental set of commands to streamline your DevOps processes.

co2-table icon co2-table

A simple application for practicing co2 tables for freediving

cs50w-finalproject icon cs50w-finalproject

My final project for CS50W: an online platform for teachers to share unlisted YouTube videos with their dance students.

form-builder-shadcn icon form-builder-shadcn

A form builder built using a tutorial using React, Typescript, Dnd-kit, PostgreSQL, Prisma and Tailwind

google-map-search-nextjs icon google-map-search-nextjs

A simple application that has an autocomplete field returning results using the google maps places api and updates a map

habits icon habits

A simple habit tracker built using Next.js, MongoDB, Mongoose, and Tailwind

hyperblog icon hyperblog

Un sitio web blog sencillo hecho para el curso de Git y GitHub de Platzi

lightning icon lightning

A simple web application to practice your English speaking skills

lightning-old icon lightning-old

An application for English speaking practice. Speak about a random topic for 1 minute with no preparation time.

multistep-form-play icon multistep-form-play

A playground for multi step form solution practice (next.js/typescript/react-hook-form/zod)

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