Kathryn Grayson Nanz

@kgrayson.com

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Senior Dev & Design Advocate at Progress Software. Front-end Engineer, UI Designer, Component Librarian. Pushing the rectangles around until they look right.

Three photo strips from a photo booth, showing different groups of people posing in front of a React Summit backdrop.
A comment from user ikidd that says "Do they give you the lobotomy before your initial job orientation at Microsoft, or after? I wonder if you have to use up vacation days for the recovery time."
A selfie of Kat, sitting alone at a now-abandoned ex-Spirit Airlines gate
The escalator up to the movie theater where StirTrek is held
A push notification from Teams saying "Meeting Recap: Apr 3, 9:00 AM. See when you were mentioned"
Baby Kathryn, being held by her father, with her hands on the keyboard of an early-90s-era PC. She is looking up at the monitor, but alas, she cannot yet read. The photo is slightly yellow with age.
Scene of a snowy Canadian landscape from a plane window
A yellow sticker with red lettering reading "HAVE YOU DISCONNECTED?" on a Signature Aviation plane refueling vehicle
A screenshot of the Cloudflare error page on the React Summit website
A long, corporate hallway with white walls. At the end is a door that opens into a dark room. A green exit sign is above the door.
Kathryn, with one eyebrow quirked while looking at a laptop.
Kathryn making a kind of grimace while holding a microphone, standing behind a podium with a laptop.
Gif from the Blues Brothers: "How often does the train go by?" "So often you won't even notice."
A round loaf of challah bread studded with raisins sits on a wooden cutting board. Next to it is a bread knife. The loaf is missing a corner.
A photo of a gas pump nozzle in a car, refueling. The nozzle handle has a bright red sticker on it that says "FOR RECTAL USE ONLY" with an icon of a pair of shorts. The sticker has been placed immediately above where the text "Improper use may cause a hazardous condition. Refer to posted warnings" is printed on the handle.
A box of medicine labeled "SudoGest Nasal Decongestant"
A picture of the stage at SquiggleConf showing the title of Anthony Fu's talk ("Make Tools That People Love") while he is interviewed by the host
A tweet from Kathryn Grayson Nanz: "Call the Midwife is baffling. There's no schedule for the US release, it just appears on Netflix with no warning. The characters change so often that I can't remember anyone's name. This season includes the 2023 Christmas special. I will watch every episode within 48 hours."
Kindle push notification that reads 'Still thinking about this book? "Kindred" by Octavia E. Butler'
The salute emoji as seen in Microsoft Teams
A screenshot of the Degree Summary from the student portal. It reads: "Awarded: Master of Science. Degree Date: 08/08/25. Curriculum Information: Primary Degree. Program: Information Technology – MS. College: Computing and Informatics. Major: Information Technology. Major and Concentration: Software Syst Design & Engr.
An open suitcase. On top of a pile of clothes, a blue tshirt is folded - it has "Anti Javascript Javascript Club" embroidered on it.
two github actions, in sequential order. the older one is called "fixed quotes" and the build failed. the newer one is called "fucking quotes" and the build was successful.
A text message sent to Megan: "which, also, I hate the way discord is used now. The children yearn for forums"
Screen shot from Disco Elysium: Joyce Messier is saying "I can't. That's how simple it is. One may dye their hair green and wear their grandma's coat all they want. Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would 'critique' capital end up reinforcing it instead..."
The ad shown at the beginning of every Squid Game episode, where the text "Presented by Experian: Your Big Financial Friend. A BFF for Life" is set across from the large piggy bank from Squid Game that money gets added to when people are murdered.
Two side-by-side file folder organizers, covered entirely with stickers
A graphite, charcoal, and pastel portrait of a middle aged woman, drawn on tan paper
A black pennant that says "GITHUB"
A pile of overlapping stickers from various tech companies, scattered across a desk.
Kathryn and Roxy taking a selfie in front of the RenderATL stage
A selfie of Kathryn sitting in front of a yellow RenderATL banner
The close, minimize, and maximize buttons on the Teams desktop app for Mac. They are not aligned with literally anything else in the interface.
Top text: "Welcome to cirque de Render" An image of Kathryn Grayson Nanz with her name and the title "Speaker" immediately underneath Bottom text: "UI Designer & Front-End Developer – Progress Software" Three text boxes: "Design", "Render ATL 2025", :June 11-13, 2024, Atlanta, Georgia"
A black dog sleeping, with just his paws and head sticking out from under a brightly colored quilt. His toy is right next to him, as though he fell asleep playing with it.
The Divoom Pixoo64 display showing a clock with a Star Trek LCARS display panel in the background
A clock face displayed on the Divoom Pixoo64 monitor, with art of the Master Sword from Zelda in the background
A Divoom Pixoo64 pixel art monitor displaying the time, date, and temperature with a cozy rainy gif playing on loop behind
Coworker asks: "OK, wait, what if... It just occurred to me-what if we included both Al-generated captions and a human transcriber during the stream? It would be a powerful, real-time illustration of our entire theme: the importance of combining Al with human expertise to create truly accessible experiences. And answer the question, is Al there yet?" Kathryn responds:"I like the high level idea, but I'm a little hesitant because (a) I don't want the human captioner to feel like they're being tested / challenged - what if they "lose"? | would feel uncomfortable being asked to code against an Al in real time. (b) I think it might be distracting for our listeners who actually need the captions for understanding the content That sounds, to me, like a separate idea for another medium - maybe a video where we can run a recording that was live captioned through an Al generator after the fact and share the results?"
Picture of the stage at 200OK from a few rows back
The email address that sent the spam email under the name "Elon Musk" which is (of course) an absolute string of nonsense
An insane spam email with the headline "Leonardo DiCaprio and Elon Musk - Pro Power Giveaway!" It is followed by a poorly photoshopped image of both men holding an ambiguous electronic device. What the device does is not explained.
A hand is holding a trading card sized illustration of a tentacled monster woman in front of an open book. The illustration is highly detailed.
A branded box for the Stir Trek conference, overflowing with swag.