Lea Verou
CSS, and the Tools Around It
Prism, Mavo, and CSS Working Group membership
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CSSOpen source librariesWeb standards
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Wrote Prism, the syntax highlighter running on a very large share of technical sites, and a run of small widely-used libraries. CSS Working Group invited expert who has driven several specs including colour functions, wrote CSS Secrets, and researches end-user programming at MIT. Nearly everything she makes is MIT licensed and on GitHub.
Curator’s note
The code highlighting on the docs you read this morning is probably hers.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Lea Verou by OutofTheBoxThinker, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.