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Kit La Touche

Back-end developer @ OddBird from

Kit is a back-end developer, computational linguist, Linux system administrator, and game designer.

Kit is an OddBird Emeritus who led our server-side development – managing code architecture, database design, and deployment. He is a web developer, computational linguist, Linux system administrator, and game designer. He’s been active in Python & Django web development since 2007, and also acts as a process consultant for businesses – helping teams find the flow of communication that works best for them.

Open Source

OddContrast

Color contrast checker with Oklch, Oklab, P3, and more

OddBird (owners) since

OddContrast is a color format converter, featuring newer color formats like Oklch, Oklab, and the Display P3 color space. It’s also a color contrast checker to help designers meet WCAG 2 accessibility standards.

HTML & CSS Polyfills

Popover, CSS Anchor Positioning, Cascade Layers

OddBird (owners) since

Along with our work for the W3C developing specifications for the CSS language, OddBird has started and maintains a number of powerful polyfills for new web platform features including the Popover attribute, CSS Anchor Positioning, and Cascade Layers.

Herman

Automated style guides

OddBird (owners) since

Design systems streamline development, communication, and consistency – but often rely on dedicated teams and extended budgets. We wanted a tool that helps create and maintain living style guides & pattern libraries in an agile process, and on a budget. Herman helps you keep your development process simple – and your UX consistent – as you scale over time.

Accoutrement

Integrated design-system management in Sass

OddBird (owners) since

OddBird’s Accoutrement tools help keep design tokens meaningful to both humans and machines – opening the door for automation, while improving readability. These tools also integrate with Herman, our automated pattern-library generator.

True

Unit-testing for Sass developers

Miriam, Jonny, Carl, David G, & Kit (owners) since

True is the only full-featured unit-testing framework designed specifically for the Sass language. Write your tests in Sass, compile them with Sass, and then (optionally) pass the results to a Javascript test-runner for command-line control and reporting.

Posts

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    Django REST Framework & Channels

    by Kit La Touche on

    We’ve begun exploring some patterns for how to add WebSocket push notifications to what is otherwise a RESTful API. This means, for us, using Django REST Framework and Django Channels in concert.

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    Django, Background Processes, and Keeping Users in the Loop

    by Kit La Touche on

    When you have out-of-band processing in a web app, how do you let users know that the status of a task has changed? Depending on your front-end client, there are a few different approaches you might take.

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    Celery stalk resembling a human shape
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    Serializing Things for Celery

    by Kit La Touche on

    Transmitting objects between web processes and worker processes is a requirement of many modern web apps. Given that the safest way to do so is to use a serialization format that only includes primitive data types, how can we send custom objects around?

  4. Cave with sign reading Your Git History
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    A Rebase-Centric Model of Collaborative Git Use

    by Kit La Touche on

    If you want to make sense of your git history more easily when you go back, try rebasing as you go. Rebasing while collaborating with others can get hairy quickly. But here’s one way to make it work.

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    A Visit to the RESTful SPA

    by Kit La Touche on

    You can’t always get away with a single-page app; sometimes you need server-side rendering. When you need both, here’s one approach.

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