Kattni<p>Hey, folks! Happy New Year! May this year be better than the last, even though 2022 set a pretty low bar. </p><p>I thought for my first post if 2023, I would do the <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/intro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intro</span></a> post that never happened. </p><p>Hi! I'm Kattni (she/her). </p><p>I'm <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodivergent</span></a>, and do my best to be open about it. This isn't the post for details, but I'm happy to write up a future post with more on that subject. </p><p>I am a photographer, programmer, mentor, maker, intermittent chef, one-time gardener, tentative step-parent, and loved wife. I am tolerated by two cats who continue to let me live with them.</p><p>I am newly married to my wife! It was always in the works, but extenuating circumstances bumped the timeline up to imminent. I managed to pull everything together in a week or so, and it all worked out better than I could have imagined.</p><p>I've done various public speaking engagements, including being the 2019 keynote speaker at PyOhio, even though it terrifies me. </p><p>I recently got a new camera that I'm super excited about! <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/CanonR5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanonR5</span></a> So many new features means a steep learning curve, but I'm here for it. Haven't had much time to work with it yet, but I'm learning as I go based on what the situation requires. (I bought a <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/Canon7D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canon7D</span></a> in 2011, and that's the camera from which I'm upgrading.)</p><p>You can find me on <a href="https://kattni.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">kattni.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> as well. I'm not great at keeping up with the blog, but it's there for when I do. When I get around to it, I'll post my wedding story there. </p><p>I was sponsored by Adafruit from 2017 to 2023 to work on the <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/CircuitPython" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CircuitPython</span></a> project. I am an open source community leader, technical writer, new contributor coordinator, embedded software developer, CircuitPython library codebase manager, and embedded hardware designer. </p><p>There's obviously significantly more to me than this, but I struggled to even manage to put this together, so for now, it'll have to do!</p><p>Here's to a new year!</p><p>Edit: Updated work situation.</p>