Kathryn Grayson Nanz
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Kathryn Grayson Nanz
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Senior Dev & Design Advocate at Progress Software. Front-end Engineer, UI Designer, Component Librarian. She/her. Pushing the rectangles around until they look right. https://www.connectwithme.at/kathryngraysonnanz
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"No" (Vibes, et al., 2025)
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When someone asks how I stay sane while being extremely online
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Next Murderbot Diaries book gets announced for May 5, 2026.
Next Dungeon Crawler Carl book gets announced for May 12, 2026.

Guess I better go ahead and put in for some PTO.
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Fuck you *git commits your .DS_Store file*
man, checking the alts – that's dedication to the craft. thank you; i promise to do better moving forward, haha
Bonus edition: "That would be...illogical, captain."
got some picures back from KCDC which means it's time for another installment of Weird Faces I Made While Speaking
every hotel should be required to disclose how close they are to the train tracks.
ooooh, i'm curious about this one! will there be a recording? 👀
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Other conferences make sponsors blend into the background. We let you rise from the digital graveyard and terrorize attendees with your APIs. Be the sponsor that haunts their GitHub commits forever. 👻

https://tinyurl.com/52uc3xkk
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posting this here because I feel like we’re all buddies

if you want to come to @magnolia.boo and you’ve been laid off or are otherwise unemployed or just need some help, holler at me or @richard.sween.dev.

as long as you can make it to Jackson, we don’t want the cost of tickets to be a barrier 💙
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everyone is a designer [derogatory]
Our annual State of Designer / Dev Collaboration Survey is live! As an (admittedly biased) designer-turned-developer, this is one of my favorite projects we do at Progress.

If you can spare 10 minutes, fill it out and add your opinion to the mix! ✏️ progress.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The State of Designer-Developer Collaboration Survey 2024 | Progress
Are you a web developer? A designer? Or someone else who has a stake in the designеr-developer collaboration process? Take our survey (15 min) and share your perspective to become part of this global ...
progress.co1.qualtrics.com
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Looking for a weekend project? The KendoReact Free Components Challenge is your chance to build a cool React app and win a share of $3,000! 🚀

Submissions are due September 28th. Need some inspiration? Here are 3 unique ideas you can build in a couple of days:

#ReactJS #WebDev #KendoReactChallenge
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SquiggleConf 2025 was an absolute, incredible blast. We had a wonderful time learning with you all. A HUGE "thank you!" to all our attendees, speakers, sponsors, and volunteers for making this a wonderful experience.

We can't wait to see you in Spring 2027. 💙
Didn't even manage to hold off long enough to take a photo. Maybe I need to work on my patience in this coming year.

Shana tovah, y'all 🍎🍯
I feel like em dashes get all the hate when we're picking on AI-generated content, but "it's not just X, it's Y" is always the one that sticks out like a sore thumb to me
Only one way to find out
Shout out to the guy who put these stickers on all the gas pumps at the local grocery store
Yes I DO think I'm hilarious, thank you for asking
Well damn, if I knew all I had to do was "sudo rm -rf congestion" this could have been a lot easier.
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SquiggleConf deserves an order of magnitude more attendees
Oooh! I wanna see pictures when you finish!!