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Erica Mitchell

Front-end developer @ OddBird from

Erica is a front end JavaScript developer, veteran, teacher, and advocate for users.

Erica is an OddBird Emeritus who co-led the front end development process – bringing design and application data alive. She’s a military veteran who fell in love with coding, and she’s worked on an array of projects – from large scale systems maintenance to in-house and public web applications – using a wide variety of technologies. She’s passionate about the process of building intuitive solutions for users across platforms and mediums, and believes in doing her part to push the web platform forward – whether by contributing to open source projects, or engaging with the next generation of developers in the community.

Open Source

OddContrast

Color contrast checker with Oklch, Oklab, P3, and more

OddBird (creators) since

OddContrast is a color format converter, featuring newer color formats like Oklch, Oklab, and the Display P3 color space. It’s also a color contrast checker to help designers meet WCAG 2 accessibility standards.

HTML & CSS Polyfills

Popover, CSS Anchor Positioning, Cascade Layers

OddBird (creators) since

Along with our work for the W3C developing specifications for the CSS language, OddBird has started and maintains a number of powerful polyfills for new web platform features including the Popover attribute, CSS Anchor Positioning, and Cascade Layers.

Herman

Automated style guides

OddBird (creators) since

Design systems streamline development, communication, and consistency – but often rely on dedicated teams and extended budgets. We wanted a tool that helps create and maintain living style guides & pattern libraries in an agile process, and on a budget. Herman helps you keep your development process simple – and your UX consistent – as you scale over time.

Posts

  1. OddContrast displays sRGB gamut range in P3 color format and an estimate of foreground alpha value ratio.
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    New Features for OddContrast

    by OddBird on

    OddContrast gets new features – including the ability to swap background and foreground colors, and display color gamut ranges on the color sliders. Contrast ratios now incorporate foreground color alpha values.

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  2. Bits and Pieces
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    Why We Switched to React Hooks

    Erica Mitchell at Bits and Pieces on

    Hooks are the new hotness in building web applications with React. In this article for BitSrc, Erica separates fact from hyperbole to examine why OddBird has embraced the new Hooks API to deliver a better product to clients, and how we’ve benefited from having simple, consistent patterns to manage state…

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    Panel conversation at Refactr.tech Conference
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    Diversity. Inclusion. Tech.

    Refactr.tech 2019 aims to solve tech’s diversity problem

    by Erica Mitchell on

    As we readied our seats for the first ever Refactr.tech Conference, I pondered the question: What would a technical conference look like if its organizers were intentional about inclusiveness but still centered on tech?

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