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My experience working full-time as a technical writer on the MDN Web Docs team to ensure the content is up to date, helpful, and inspiring.

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2023 Wrapped: MDN GitHub maintenance, Interop '23 & Firefox release notes.

Now that 2023 is coming to a close wrapped, I thought I’d take a look back at what I managed to achieve over the year. I joined Mozilla in 2022 as a Staff Technical Writer on the MDN team, which made 2023 the first full year that I focused entirely on MDN Web Docs. In this post, I’ll share some stats that I collected from my work on GitHub, visualize the data to understand it a little more, and show the categories I focused on.

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MDN Blog: JavaScript console methods

Earlier in the year, I wrote about using grep on the MDN Blog for code search under the “developer essential” category. I categorize it this way because I think it will give people unfamiliar with grep a massive productivity boost and exposure to skills like working on the command line and regular expressions. This looks like it’s becoming a series of posts on “essentials” (or what I think are incredibly beneficial skills, at least) for working effectively as a web developer.

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MDN Blog: How to search code using grep

A big part of web development extends beyond the usual suspects of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HTTP. You need to glue these building blocks together, and for that, you need to be able to use tools, systems, and other fundamentals.

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MDN Blog: CSS hues with hsl()

After deep-diving into color functions like lab(), lch() and color(), I realized that hue was actually a great topic to update across MDN Web Docs. I am pretty happy with the outcome and there was a lot of interesting findings, updated pages, and new examples that should help beginners get started using hues in CSS.

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MDN Blog: JavaScript regular expressions reference docs

The JavaScript regular expressions (regex) documentation had a big update recently thanks to the efforts of Joshua Chen. Josh did the heavy lifting, and I was glad to give some feedback and reviews to land the changes. There are new, dedicated pages for each JS language feature for regular expressions, with information about the syntax and browser compat data, too.

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MDN Blog: CSS color functions and color spaces

In March of this year, I was assigned a Firefox 111 release task to document lab(), lch() and color() functions that were shipping in the stable release. This was an interesting one for me to work on and I learned a lot of new things about color spaces, color science, and plenty about color in CSS.

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