Kathryn Grayson Nanz
@kgrayson.com
Senior Dev & Design Advocate at Progress Software. Front-end Engineer, UI Designer, Component Librarian. She/her. Pushing the rectangles around until they look right.
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Kathryn Grayson Nanz
@kgrayson.com
· May 27
"No" (Vibes, et al., 2025)
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
Let's gooooooo #ReactSummitUS 🙌🏻
I'll be moderating the discussion room "Growing to Senior & Tech Lead" at 2PM this afternoon, so if you're here come swing by and yap about career paths with me!
I'll be moderating the discussion room "Growing to Senior & Tech Lead" at 2PM this afternoon, so if you're here come swing by and yap about career paths with me!
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Let's gooooooo #ReactSummitUS 🙌🏻
I'll be moderating the discussion room "Growing to Senior & Tech Lead" at 2PM this afternoon, so if you're here come swing by and yap about career paths with me!
I'll be moderating the discussion room "Growing to Senior & Tech Lead" at 2PM this afternoon, so if you're here come swing by and yap about career paths with me!
Happy Cloudflare is Down on React Summit Day to those who observe
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Happy Cloudflare is Down on React Summit Day to those who observe
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what if,,,, i decided to play just one little jrpg... just as a treat... just sit in my cave and ignore all responsibilities for a week
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
what if,,,, i decided to play just one little jrpg... just as a treat... just sit in my cave and ignore all responsibilities for a week
Just read a message that included the word "marchitecture" and immediately took 3d6 psychic damage
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Just read a message that included the word "marchitecture" and immediately took 3d6 psychic damage
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
just had to go delete a link in an old blog because the URL we had the project hosted on (a) is no longer ours because we ended up integrating the feature into a product and deleted the project and (b) has now been re-used by another dev to build some kind of anime maid AI chatbot situation
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
just had to go delete a link in an old blog because the URL we had the project hosted on (a) is no longer ours because we ended up integrating the feature into a product and deleted the project and (b) has now been re-used by another dev to build some kind of anime maid AI chatbot situation
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My first advice to junior contributors is to STOP using vibe coding for PRs. OSS is always about people more than about code. We don't need more code generated by LLM, we need more people who care.
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
My first advice to junior contributors is to STOP using vibe coding for PRs. OSS is always about people more than about code. We don't need more code generated by LLM, we need more people who care.
Greetings from the Progress office, where the work is mysterious and important
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Greetings from the Progress office, where the work is mysterious and important
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…in the land of Mordor where the shadows lie homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
…in the land of Mordor where the shadows lie homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...
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Now that my photos app works again, and I'm excited for the kids to think I'm hip tonight, I can share our Huntr/x and Bobby costumes from @magnolia.boo
Featuring @kayla.ooo @kgrayson.com and @richard.sween.dev
Featuring @kayla.ooo @kgrayson.com and @richard.sween.dev
October 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Now that my photos app works again, and I'm excited for the kids to think I'm hip tonight, I can share our Huntr/x and Bobby costumes from @magnolia.boo
Featuring @kayla.ooo @kgrayson.com and @richard.sween.dev
Featuring @kayla.ooo @kgrayson.com and @richard.sween.dev
Dishonest: "I promise I am not ignoring your email!"
Honest: "I have seen your email and I am ignoring it, but only a little bit and not forever."
Honest: "I have seen your email and I am ignoring it, but only a little bit and not forever."
November 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Dishonest: "I promise I am not ignoring your email!"
Honest: "I have seen your email and I am ignoring it, but only a little bit and not forever."
Honest: "I have seen your email and I am ignoring it, but only a little bit and not forever."
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how your email finds me
pachnelephalosaurus statue, public park, route 40, dinosaur, colorado, 1991
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
how your email finds me
replying to the contractor's house project estimate with "LGTM; merge it"
November 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
replying to the contractor's house project estimate with "LGTM; merge it"
Me, 6 months ago: "Wow, I've got this idea for an event and the budget just got approved and I'm so excited to plan it!"
Me, currently: "I forgot how awful this is. If I never plan another event it will be too soon."
Me, one month from now (probably): "Wow, I've got this idea for an event and–"
Me, currently: "I forgot how awful this is. If I never plan another event it will be too soon."
Me, one month from now (probably): "Wow, I've got this idea for an event and–"
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Me, 6 months ago: "Wow, I've got this idea for an event and the budget just got approved and I'm so excited to plan it!"
Me, currently: "I forgot how awful this is. If I never plan another event it will be too soon."
Me, one month from now (probably): "Wow, I've got this idea for an event and–"
Me, currently: "I forgot how awful this is. If I never plan another event it will be too soon."
Me, one month from now (probably): "Wow, I've got this idea for an event and–"
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Hello kids. Great costumes. You can have boring regular candy or, in exchange for a small fee, you can invest in something I'm calling Candy Premium, an AI-enabled solution that
November 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Hello kids. Great costumes. You can have boring regular candy or, in exchange for a small fee, you can invest in something I'm calling Candy Premium, an AI-enabled solution that
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“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten
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I recently got back from a great conference & instead of a typical recap, I wrote some thoughts on conferences in general & in particular my love of small community conferences (even though they can be very fragile & fleeting)
the brutal beauty of the community tech conference
leaflet.pub
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I recently got back from a great conference & instead of a typical recap, I wrote some thoughts on conferences in general & in particular my love of small community conferences (even though they can be very fragile & fleeting)
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I am looking for a full-time job.
Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me.
If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂
Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me.
If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂
October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I am looking for a full-time job.
Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me.
If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂
Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me.
If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
the teams update that allows multiple emoji reacts from one user has (unfortunately) meaningfully improved my life
October 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
the teams update that allows multiple emoji reacts from one user has (unfortunately) meaningfully improved my life
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me, looking around at the utter state of everything in this industry: yea i. i actually can’t help but feel like tailwind is to blame for this
October 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
me, looking around at the utter state of everything in this industry: yea i. i actually can’t help but feel like tailwind is to blame for this
Time for the annual changing of the guard (putting away the converse high tops, taking out the doc martins)
October 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Time for the annual changing of the guard (putting away the converse high tops, taking out the doc martins)
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If the azure outage lasts longer than 15 minutes everyone gets to go home
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
If the azure outage lasts longer than 15 minutes everyone gets to go home
"I suppose you're all wondering why I've gathered you here today...me too. There was something. Damn, I knew it two seconds ago. Hold on. Do any of you remember?"
October 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"I suppose you're all wondering why I've gathered you here today...me too. There was something. Damn, I knew it two seconds ago. Hold on. Do any of you remember?"