February 2026 — Focused on delivering a learner-facing enhancement in the Web Components Tutorial within laurenmrice/carbon-website. Updated the tutorial to use the new cds-grid and cds-column components to enable more flexible, grid-based layouts and clearer instructional guidance. The change updated tutorial step 2, added broader grid refinements, and included formatting cleanup (yarn format). Collaborative effort with co-authors to ensure code quality and alignment with component standards.

February 2025 summary for carbon-design-system/carbon-website: Key feature delivered is the Carbon Design System Web Components Tutorial enabling developers to install, build pages with grid and components, fetch API data, and deploy Vanilla JS/HTML apps using web components. This work improves onboarding, consistency, and time-to-value across projects. No major bugs were reported this month. Major impact: accelerates developer onboarding, standardizes usage of web components, and strengthens design-system adoption. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Vanilla JS/HTML, web components, API integration, deployment strategies, documentation, and onboarding tooling.