Kathleen Mcmahon
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- React Alicante3 editions2023–2025
- React Miami2 editions2022–2023
- reactjsday2 editions2019–2022
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on a stage with
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who talks about the same things
- Manjula Dube11 talks
- Siddharth Kshetrapal29 talks
- Shruti Kapoor19 talks
- Elizabet Oliveira12 talks
- Vitalii Bobrov16 talks
- Gil Fink21 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Beachcomber's Guide to Type-Safe Design Systems | Codemotion Madrid 2026 | 2026-04-20 |
Kathleen McMahon explains how to build resilient design systems using TypeScript to catch mismatches between design tokens, components, and variants before… | ||
| 2025 10 04 19 KATHLEEN MCMAHON CONGRESO REACT ALICANTE The international React js conference in S | React Alicante 2025 | 2025-10-02 |
Claim: typing design tokens and component props catches misspellings and misuse at compile time and prevents multi‑brand theme drift. Evidence: a real… | ||
| Sweet, savory, and fresh! Accessible design system Storybook tests | React Alicante 2024 | 2024-09-19 |
Claim: embed accessibility checks into component work so violations show up in Storybook, the tests actually run Axe via the Storybook accessibility add-on and… | ||
| Bye bye, weeds! Digital Gardening with Astro, SolidJS, & MDX | React Alicante 2023 | 2023-09-28 |
Migrates a four‑page Gatsby site into Astro with MDX and optional SolidJS/React islands, keeping existing components and switching to Astro’s content… | ||
| Bye-bye, weeds! Digital Gardening with Astro, SolidJS & MDX | JSDayIE 2023 | 2023-09-26 |
Migrates a four‑page MDX site from Gatsby (v2→v5 pain, ~10 hours spent) to Astro, keeping some React components and evaluating SolidJS for islanded… | ||
| Bye-bye, weeds! Digital Gardening with Astro, SolidJS, & MDX | ReactNext 2023 | 2023-06-27 |
A four‑page Gatsby site migrates to Astro + SolidJS + MDX and compiles down to mostly HTML with far less client JavaScript, completed in about 10 hours of… | ||
| Design Systems are a Carnival! One Accessible Component, Many Pretty Masks | React Miami 2023 | 2023-04-20 |
Claims that a single disclosure widget can be a reusable accessible base are supported with concrete patterns: useState/useRef/useEffect for state and focus… | ||
| Design System Carnival! One accessible component, many pretty masks | reactjsday 2022 | 2022-10-21 |
Builds a single reusable, accessible disclosure widget that can masquerade as tooltip, popover, dropdown menu or embedded search and demonstrates real code… | ||
| Stealth-mode North Star! Rebranding in secret with feature flags | React Miami 2022 | 2022-04-18 |
Claim: a full product rebrand ships in 10 weeks without alerting most of the company. Implementation: use feature flags (boolean, prerequisite, multivariate)… | ||
| From Brittle to Supple: How Gatsby and MDX Made Our Documentation Smoothly | React Summit 2020 | 2020-10-14 |
Claims a concrete migration: migrated two repos into one using Gatsby and MDX, adding gatsby-plugin-mdx, gatsby-plugin-compile-es6-packages, remark autolink… | ||
| Accessibility-flavored React components make your design system delicious | reactjsday 2019 | 2019-10-04 |
Design system components come with concrete rules and working examples: icon fonts built from spans plus aria-hidden="true" and a visually-hidden text pattern… | ||
| Accessibility-flavored React components... | Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 2018 | 2018-10-11 |
Design system is a React component library in beta that enforces accessibility guardrails: components must pass semantic HTML, ARIA and documentation before… | ||
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