Eric Meyer
Developer Advocate
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolEric Meyer is a developer advocate and standards-minded front-end veteran with over two decades of experience shaping how the web is built, taught, and documented. He’s an author of multiple influential CSS books and a long-time contributor to MDN Web Docs, bringing practical clarity to CSS and JavaScript docs and tests. As founder of css-discuss, co-creator of microformats (GMPG), and co-founder of An Event Apart, he blends community leadership with hands-on consulting and training for large organizations. At Igalia and through his consulting practice he focuses on standards-based design and performance-driven optimization that reduce cost and improve longevity. Based in Cleveland, he pairs deep historical knowledge of web standards and W3C test-suite work with an offbeat, intellectually curious perspective evident in his public voice.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Lexington High SchoolB.A. History, B.A. History at Case Western Reserve University
american sign language (very basic)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
html10
mdns10
css10
web-development-project10
javascript10
web-development10
documentation10
web-content9
content-model9
css-selectors6
fonts6
jquery6
colors6
negation6
pseudo-classes6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
mdn/content
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
The official source for MDN Web Docs content. Home to over 14,000 pages of documentation about HTML, CSS, JS, HTTP, Web APIs, and more.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:34 reviews, 7 commits, 17 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the documentation of MDN Web Docs. Their work involved clarifying text, fixing errors, and updating examples within various CSS and JavaScript documentation pages. They also made changes related to private class features in JavaScript, updating guides and related content.
cssjsmdnjavascriptreference
meyerweb/content
Mar 2021 - May 2022
The content behind MDN Web Docs
Contributions:1 review, 120 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 1 month
mdn
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