Katy DeCorah

Last year, I met my goal of reading 52 books in 52 weeks and then some. I owe it all to audiobooks, mainly, but also Libby, friends with great book suggestions, Roxane Gay’s audacious book club, and learning that New York State residents can apply for a New York Public Library card.

The books, music, and recipes I enjoyed this winter.

As I write this, I have already eaten two pains au chocolat (chocolate croissants). Since I am new to having a fresh-out-of-the-oven croissant, it only seemed reasonable to try it twice.

Last year, I started to track new recipes I tried and books I read by saving their metadata to YAML files. I had already been saving Spotify playlists in the same way and then this year I started saving Wordle games. I have found something deeply gratifying about maintaining metadata libraries.

This weekend I made Molten Chocolate Doughnut Holes. Was it a cure for -15℉ morning? Maybe.

I’m playing Wordle. I love a word puzzle and like many have been hooked by the daily game. I wrote wordle-to-yaml-action to archive my Wordle games to a yaml file.

The last day of 2021 was all fog, from sunrise to sunset. We were lucky to capture the fog at the Ballston Lake public dock.

The books, music, and recipes I enjoyed this fall.

With npm@v7, you no longer have to install peer dependencies. This feature removed a huge maintenance burden for our documentation sites at Mapbox. Through strategic use of peer dependencies and dependabot, we’ve significantly reduced our dependency maintenance.

This year we perfected our outdoor dining kit. We keep the kit in our front closet and pull it out after we place a pick-up order and find a nearby table.