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Allons-Y Consulting

Cassondra Roberts | @castastrophe

Who are we at Allons-y Consulting?

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. We're looking to explore how we deliver experiences at enterprise scale in a way that empowers developers to work in unison with each other and with their counterparts.

Nothing makes us happier than exploring new approaches and creating highly-optimized, clean solutions to complex problems.

Developer experience and accessibility are deeply important to us and these values guide the results that we produce and influence. One of the most enjoyable aspects of this work is our open source community management; engaging with and connecting the contributors and consumers.

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Cassondra Roberts, owner and front-end expert

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Michael Roberts, project management expert

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Projects

I'm proud to have worked on a variety of projects, from open source libraries to enterprise design systems. As a project maintainer and contributor, I'm passionate about building tools that empower developers to build better web experiences, leveraging the latest technologies and techniques so they can focus on what matter most.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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.
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