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Jonny Gerig Meyer

Co-founder & technical lead @ OddBird since

Jonny (he/him) is a co-founder and technical lead – helping architect robust, maintainable web applications.

Jonny leads the development process, turning your ideas into functional interactions. He has been writing clean, well-tested web applications for more than a decade. Experienced in a wide variety of web languages, tools and frameworks, he is passionate about code architecture, test coverage, and sweating the details. An active member in the JavaScript community, Jonny has authored or contributed to numerous open-source projects. He’s easily distracted by a game of ultimate frisbee, homebrewing delicious IPAs and stouts, and trying to keep up with his young kids.

Open Source

OddContrast

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

OddBird (owners) 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 (owners) 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.

Cascading Colors

Dynamic & interactive color palettes using CSS

Miriam, Jonny, & Erica (owners) since

Generate dynamic and interactive color palettes. Define custom themes with CSS custom properties, allow user-adjustments with a bit of light-weight JS, and customize the underlying system with Sass.

Herman

Automated style guides

OddBird (owners) 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.

Accoutrement

Integrated design-system management in Sass

OddBird (owners) since

OddBird’s Accoutrement tools help keep design tokens meaningful to both humans and machines – opening the door for automation, while improving readability. These tools also integrate with Herman, our automated pattern-library generator.

True

Unit-testing for Sass developers

Miriam, Jonny, Carl, David G, & Kit (owners) since

True is the only full-featured unit-testing framework designed specifically for the Sass language. Write your tests in Sass, compile them with Sass, and then (optionally) pass the results to a Javascript test-runner for command-line control and reporting.

Blend

Sass support for LCH, Lab, and more CSS color spaces

Miriam & Jonny (owners) from

Posts

  1. Spam semi truck
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    Blocking Analytics Spam

    by Jonny Gerig Meyer on

    Google Analytics is great for gathering data on who uses your web application, but becomes worthless if spam sessions start infesting your data. Here’s how we’ve tried to combat the problem for oddbird.net.

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  2. Marionette puppet in grassy field
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    Server-Side Rendering For Client-Side Apps

    by Jonny Gerig Meyer on

    We want the convenience of a client-side single-page application using our MV* framework of choice, but don’t want to sacrifice the SEO and UX benefits of rendering the initial markup on the server. And while we’re not here to trash on Node.js, we’re also not ready to commit to an…

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    jQuery Chicago 2014

    by Jonny Gerig Meyer on

    Five practical JavaScript coding takeaways from jQuery Conference Chicago 2014.

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