Katy DeCorah

I made a command line tool to run when I go into labor, AwayBot. This bot can also be used for all types of leave that take you out of the office for a while.

When our son arrives next year, we’re anticipating late night feedings and diapers changes which may mean needing to turn on our smart bulbs without fumbling for our phones or asking Alexa.

I wrote Keep your streak in the work week on The Human In The Machine today. My article is about how I built ChillBot, a Slack bot that messages me on the weekends to let me know if I’ve contributed on GitHub for seven consecutive days and to encourage me to take a break.

I didn’t expect WeatherBot to become a series of posts, but the weather has been fluctuating so much scary.

Last week I talked about how I built a WeatherBot that gives us a heads up if there will be snow over the next several hours. The recent warm weather inspired me to add warm weather alerts:

We live in Upstate New York so there’s snow and it’s kind of pain for J to plow the driveway if our cars are in the way. I built a little Slack bot that runs three times a day (7 am, 1 pm, and 7 pm). And if there will be more than one inch of snow in the next 12 hours then WeatherBot will ping our Slack:

To celebrate my birthday (and to mitigate cabin fever), J and I headed to the Grand Canyon.

We spent (a relaxing) two days in a tiny house in the woods. We read books, napped, hiked, made pancakes, and had two campfires.

On Saturday, June 18, Jason and I were married at an Airbnb on the side of a mountain near Manchester, Vermont. It ended up being more beautiful than both of us imagined.

My mom and I attended the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman workshop again, this year at Greek Peak outside of Cortland, New York.