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Claire Annan, a Black female with glasses, codes at her laptop sipping coffee.

Hi! I'm Claire Annan

I’m a consulting software engineer. I like to write about engineering best practices and accessibility. I’ve also got lots of stories about life as a developer.

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Build with me! Slugify text with a bash script

A small script that turns an article title into a filename.

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Build with me! Writing a Node app to display Google Doc comments

Every once in a while you come across a ridiculous request from a client. Automation usually makes me feel better, knowing that I spent time writing code and not repeating a manual task. This is one of those situations.

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Adding pa11y to your workflow

Pa11y CI is an accessibility test runner built using Pa11y. Keep reading to find out how to run it on Continuous Integration environments and during local development.

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Consulting Software Engineer

At 18F, I work with other government agencies to fix technical problems, build products, and improve government technology services. I work on sites like login.gov and usgs.gov.