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[ Allons-Y ]

Cassondra Roberts | @castastrophe


Allons-y (ah-lo(n)-zee) is an idiomatic French expression meaning roughly, "Let's go!"

That's exactly the energy this venture brings to the web. I'm looking to explore how we deliver web experiences at enterprise scale in a way that empowers developers to work in unison with each other and with their design counterparts.

Nothing makes me happier than exploring new technologies and implementing highly-optimized, clean solutions to complex problems.

Developer experience and accessibility are deeply important to me and these values guide the code that I produce and influence. One of the most enjoyable aspects of my job is open source community management; engaging with and connecting the contributors and consumers.


Adobe

Spectrum CSS

A CSS-focused library that expresses the design direction of Adobe's Spectrum design system. It is the foundation of the Spectrum Web Components styling and the internal React Spectrum library.

Adobe

Spectrum Web Components

A framework-agnostic component library leveraging web components to implement Adobe's Spectrum design system.

Red Hat

PatternFly Elements

A web component implementation of the Red Hat design system. It leverages the encapsulation of ShadowDOM and the power of custom properties to create well-scoped elements that are still designer-friendly.

Articles

You can find me as a writer on Medium where I post explorations on CSS, web components, and enterprise design systems.

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Plugins

PostCSS Plugins

These utilities for PostCSS facilitate parsing and publishing enterprise-level design systems code for use in diverse framework ecosystems.

Automation

GitHub Actions

A growing set of GitHub utilities for managing large open source projects. Initial action is a configurable tool for automatically updating open pull requests.

Presentations

CSS Day | 2023

Shining Light on the Shadow DOM

All about the Shadow DOM and how to use it to build better web components.

S01E04.3 | 2022

Web Components in Space

Join us for a fun interview as we talk about how Adobe is using web components in their design system.

DrupalCon 2019

Unlocking design in a design system with custom properties

A deep-dive on how to leverage custom properties to create a flexible and customizable design system.

DrupalCon 2019

Make web development fun again, with web components!

A joint presentation with Penn State on how web components can make development workflows fun and efficient.

DrupalCon 2019

One of these things is not like the other; identifying patterns in a mock-up

An example-rich talk about how to break out mock-ups into patterns for maximum reusability.

Contact

Always happy to chat about web development, design, 90s pop culture references, or anything else.