Kathy Swedberg
Retired at NA
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
Summary
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RockstarKathy Swedberg is a retired front-end developer with 17 years of hands-on experience focused on JavaScript and jQuery ecosystem contributions. Based in Fargo, North Dakota, she has improved core jQuery functionality, documentation, and website tooling—contributing fixes, tests, and UX-focused demo updates to widely used projects like jquery/jquery and api.jquery.com. Her work demonstrates meticulous attention to code quality and maintainability, from fixing subtle parseInt and curly-brace issues to polishing API docs and live-search templates. Kathy also authored and refined jQuery plugins and demos, showing a knack for making developer tools easier to use and understand. Even in retirement she has left a measurable impact on popular open-source front-end projects, blending pragmatic fixes with documentation and presentation improvements.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
html10
css10
regular-expression10
javascript10
templater10
template-engine10
jquery10
xslt10
documentation10
testing9
code-formatting9
xml8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jquery/api.jquery.com
Apr 2012 - Jan 2017
API documentation for jQuery Core
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:264 commits, 9 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kathy primarily contributed to the front-end documentation of the jQuery API. Their commits show a focus on improving the presentation and content of the API documentation, including updating the Types page, adding examples, and correcting HTML structure. They also worked on XSL transformations to generate the HTML documentation from XML source files. Their work helped refine and clarify the documentation, enhancing usability for developers.
apiapi-documentationjquery
kswedberg/jquery-expander
Sep 2010 - Jan 2023
Expand and Collapse HTML content
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:135 commits, 22 PRs, 49 pushes in 12 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kathy primarily contributed to the codebase by cleaning up code formatting and removing unnecessary function calls within the JavaScript files. The changes include replacing tabs with spaces, and also fixing a broken regex. These changes suggest a focus on code maintainability and fixing regular expression-related bugs. The user also updated the test files.
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