Brian Morrison II

I build stuff and create content for developers • Sr Developer Educator at Clerk • Prev PlanetScale • Follower of Jesus ✝️

Chicago, IL Joined on May 20, 2020 https://brianmorrison.me

Education

Self Taught

Work

Sr Developer Educator at Clerk

AWS Community Builders

Clerk

JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, AWS, Serverless, PostgreSQL

Using AI with AWS to streamline launching SaaS projects.

GuardianForge - A tool for Destiny 2 players to share builds with their friends and community.

Guest blogging and ghostwriting.

53 posts published

17 comments written

6 tags followed

Brian Morrison II

Mar 5

Disable authorizer caching to resolve 403 responses from API Gateway

#aws #api #lambda #serverless

2 min read

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Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Feb 28

How to enrich PostHog events with Clerk user data

#posthog #nextjs #analytics

5 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Feb 28

How to build a secure project management platform with Next.js, Clerk, and Neon

#nextjs #react #postgres

28 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Feb 18

Validate your SaaS idea while building an audience

#saas #waitlist #loops #clerk

4 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Jan 31

Building a Next.js login page

#nextjs #security #postgres #react

19 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Jan 16

How to set environment variables in Node.js

#node #javascript #devops #express

7 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Jan 16

What is middleware in Next.js

#nextjs #react #webdev #javascript

10 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Jan 9

How to customize Next.js metadata

#nextjs #metadata #html #socialmedia

6 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Jan 8

Build a React login page template

#react #security #postgres #express

23 min read

Brian Morrison II

Dec 17 '24

I shipped my first iOS app, here’s my experience

#ios #react #reactnative #mobile

7 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Dec 11 '24

Using Clerk SSO to access Google Calendar and other service data

#sso #authentication #integration #clerk

4 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Nov 26 '24

Streamline enterprise customer onboarding with SAML and Clerk

#authentication #security #googlecloud

6 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Nov 19 '24

How to secure Liveblocks Rooms with Clerk in Next.js

#clerk #liveblocks #nextjs #react

4 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Nov 12 '24

Clerk Update – November 12, 2024

#clerk #nextjs #python #stripe

5 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Sep 30 '24

Securing Node.js Express APIs with Clerk and React

#clerk #express #node #react

6 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Sep 11 '24

Combining the benefits of session tokens and JWTs

#webdev #security

6 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Sep 4 '24

Automate Neon schema changes with Drizzle and GitHub Actions

#postgres #database #automation #devops

6 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Aug 28 '24

Role-based access control with Clerk Organizations

#webdev #security #clerk #b2b

5 min read

Brian Morrison II

Aug 15 '24

How to build reusable loaders for Remix

#webdev #remix #convex #clerk

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Aug 12 '24

Use your own domain name with a Fly app

#devops #networking #webdev #bash

3 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Aug 9 '24

Per-user B2B monetization with Stripe and Clerk Organizations

#stripe #saas #webmonetization #clerk

9 min read

Brian Morrison II

Aug 9 '24

An introduction to Postgres Row Level Security (RLS)

#postgres #supabase #database #security

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Aug 7 '24

The easiest way to create code images

#contentwriting #raycast

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Aug 6 '24

How to reference the current branch in GitHub Actions

#github #githubactions #devops

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Aug 2 '24

What is base64 encoding and how is it used in web development?

#webdev #beginners

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Jul 30 '24

Never run out of content ideas

#devrel #writing

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Jul 29 '24

How to decode a JWT

#webdev #beginners #security #auth

1 min read

Brian Morrison II for AWS Community Builders

Jul 28 '24

Easily Register SSL certificates on AWS with Route 53 and AWS Certificate Manager

#aws #security #network #dns

3 min read

Brian Morrison II

Jul 22 '24

What's the difference between guides and tutorials?

#writing #contentwriting

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Jul 16 '24

How I added a guestbook to my website with Clerk, Neon, and Netlify Functions

#webdev #sql #serverless #netlify

14 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Jul 8 '24

Building a Hybrid Sign-Up/Subscribe Form with Stripe Elements

#clerk #stripe #nextjs #saas

10 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

Jun 17 '24

Build a waitlist with Clerk user metadata

#clerk #security #rbac #javascript

9 min read

Brian Morrison II for AWS Community Builders

May 7 '24

How to secure API Gateway using JWT and Lambda Authorizers with Clerk

#clerk #aws #serverless #security

11 min read

Brian Morrison II for Clerk

May 3 '24

What are passkeys and how do they work?

#security #clerk #webdev

6 min read

Brian Morrison II

Mar 19 '24

Adding Clerk Authentication to a NextJS App

#nextjs #clerk #security #typescript

4 min read

Brian Morrison II

Sep 19 '23

Streamline Your Bot Dev Environment

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Sep 19 '23

Ways a Discord Bot Can Respond to Commands

3 min read

Brian Morrison II

Sep 19 '23

Reviving Enviari On Mixer

3 min read

Brian Morrison II

Apr 29 '23

Embracing Imposter Syndrome

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Apr 29 '23

Nodist: Running multiple version of NodeJS on Windows

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Apr 29 '23

Publishing a Vue App to AWS CloudFront CDN

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Apr 29 '23

Script-Scheduler: A cron based NodeJS script runner

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Apr 29 '23

Deploy a website to AWS CloudFront

4 min read

Brian Morrison II

Apr 4 '23

Deploy to Netlify with GitHub Actions

#githubactions #netlify #devops

3 min read

Brian Morrison II for AWS Community Builders

Dec 9 '22

Secure your connection string with AWS KMS

#beginners #webdev #mobile #community

11 min read

Brian Morrison II

Mar 16 '22

Create Your Own VSCode Snippets

#vscode #snippets #beginners #webdev

4 min read

Brian Morrison II

Aug 20 '21

GuardianForge Planning & Discovery

#go #aws #fullstack

10 min read

Brian Morrison II

Apr 1 '21

Buiding Postman2Http in Go

#buildinpublic #opensource #go #cli

4 min read

Brian Morrison II

Sep 9 '20

Lessons Learned With Netlify Forms

#webdev #api #netlify #javascript

2 min read

Brian Morrison II

Sep 7 '20

Building a Hello World Discord Bot

#node #discord #tutorial

3 min read

Brian Morrison II

Aug 12 '20

Tips for Job Hunting

#jobs #interviewing #career #resume

5 min read

Brian Morrison II

Jun 23 '20

The Case for Test Cases: How Unit Testing Saved my A**

#testing

3 min read

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