Katy DeCorah

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

Last year, Ela Conf organizers and I relied on Google Forms for women to submit anything from talks to volunteer applications. Forms worked well for us, but reviewing abstracts in a spreadsheet wasn’t exactly a fun thing to do. With the help of Zapier, I created some efficient little bots that keep us organized and motivated.

I have entered my terrible terrific twos of working remotely. Working from yoga pants. Working from couch. Working from over the sink as I eat leftovers. The glamour. The rolling out of bed. The “I’m going to wake up early and walk, lol jk.”

My Mapbox squad threw me a bachelorette party in the woods. We relaxed, hiked, ate, drank, and danced.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking at JekyllConf. My talk, Unconventional use cases for Jekyll, is a love story about Jekyll, and ok, some of the experiments and projects I’ve made with it.

I love the X-Files and to celebrate the new season I created a list of episodes that I think about often.

Today we hiked Bozen Kill Preserve in Altamont. It was muddy, icy, and even muddy-icy combo, but it’s a lovely trail.

Earlier this year, Joni Trythall retweeted something about a new tech conference, ELA Conf, to empower women to pursue leadership roles. There was just something (re: ) about the conference that got me excited, and suddenly I found myself emailing the conference (not even realizing that Joni was on the other end):

Font Library has delicious data packed into a JSON file. I’ve had an urge to see how else I can hack the file with Jekyll and tonight I was up for the challenge.