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Alistair Brown

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Alistair Brown

Worked on the duckduckgo/content-scope-scripts repository, delivering a guided Next Steps List feature that enables users to progress through tasks one card at a time with smooth animations and enhanced styling. Applied CSS and React to support multi-step flows, robust testing, and comprehensive documentation, ensuring reliability and clarity. Addressed UI consistency by fixing card stack visual defects, aligning messaging, and improving localization support. Implemented a targeted CSS fix to prevent button text wrapping in older Safari versions, stabilizing layouts across browsers. Demonstrated strong front end development and UI/UX design skills, focusing on user experience, cross-browser compatibility, and maintainable code.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

33%Features

Repository Contributions

3Total
Bugs
2
Commits
3
Features
1
Lines of code
9,150
Activity Months2

Work History

May 2026

1 Commits

May 1, 2026

Month: 2026-05 — Delivered a Safari-specific UI reliability improvement in duckduckgo/content-scope-scripts. Implemented a CSS rule to prevent button text wrapping in older Safari versions, stabilizing layout and improving usability. Relevant commit: 9a2dcc2a4c60356aad7fdbd802f752b123911cb1 ('Prevent button wrapping on older Safari (#2680)'). Impact includes smoother Safari experience, potential reduction in user-reported layout issues, and clearer cross-browser maintenance practices. Technologies demonstrated include CSS targeted fixes, cross-browser compatibility, and precise, well-documented commits. Business value: enhanced user experience for Safari users, supporting engagement and retention with a stable UI across platforms.

February 2026

2 Commits • 1 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026: Delivered user-facing guided flows and stabilized UI in content-scope-scripts. Key feature Next Steps List enables one-card-at-a-time progression with smooth animations, enhanced styling, and multi-step support; robust tests and updated docs ensure reliability. Fixed visual stacking defects in card stack by constraining background cards and removing back-card animation, eliminating layout inconsistencies across translations. These changes improve user engagement, reduce support friction, and demonstrate strong UI engineering, testing, and documentation practices.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness86.6%
Maintainability86.6%
Architecture86.6%
Performance86.6%
AI Usage33.4%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CSSJavaScript

Technical Skills

CSSReactUI/UX designfront end developmenttesting

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

duckduckgo/content-scope-scripts

Feb 2026 May 2026
2 Months active

Languages Used

CSSJavaScript

Technical Skills

CSSReactUI/UX designfront end developmenttesting