A brief introduction
Hi, I’m Melanie, a product manager with a design and web-dev background. Currently, I’m helping enable web teams on the Jamstack at Netlify. My core personal mission is to empower people to make interesting, useful, and inclusive things on the web…and I still love designing and coding my own projects!
Recently on the web platform
Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and the rest of the Open UI community are working towards a future where HTML controls are more developer-customizable—from both a content model and aesthetic perspective. We started with a customizable <select>, complete with a proposed <popup> part and CSS anchored positioning scheme.
On the blog
Building a snack review website with Eleventy and Contentful
— Trying out headless CMSes while giving myself an excuse to eat candy, as if I needed one.
Recent side project
2022 — A little international snack review site. Created as an excuse to try out Contentful as a headless CMS, and to eat more snacks.