Week 7: Microwaving gravy

There's something about the week after Thanksgiving... as a colleague said to me in a meeting on Monday: it gets kind of sad when you're at the "microwaving gravy" stage of getting through your leftovers.

This week has been a lot of microwaving gravy — maybe feeling a little too sleepy after the four-day weekend, without any one marquee project to announce, but still making sure we're making progress on lots of important, related initiatives. As such, I don't have a single theme to unite this week's post, just a bunch of shout outs here and there that might be of interest:

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Mmmmm. That's some delicious news mushed all together, like trying to warm up cranberry sauce, hamburgers (from an entirely different meal), and cabbage salad all on the same plate at 1pm on a Tuesday.

Probably the biggest news of this week, though, has to do with the 2026 ATmosphere Conference! We are going to Vancouver in March! There will be workshops, birds of a feather sessions, and lots of opportunities to chat with the team and other leading AT devs! It's particularly exciting for me because I lived in Vancouver for several years and late March is a very nice time to visit — the weather is starting to improve and there's still snow in the mountains in case you want to get out of town.

The Conference Call for Proposals opened on Tuesday this week:

https://news.atmosphereconf.org/3m6z2b7ovyk2i External Link • news.atmosphereconf.org

and today, early bird registration was opened as well:

https://news.atmosphereconf.org/3m76dixo4is2w?auth_completed=true External Link • news.atmosphereconf.org

This is a community-run conference, so we are not ourselves a load-bearing pillar (our favorite), but I'll personally be running some workshops on Friday, March 27th. It'll be a great opportunity to get hands on with reading AT records, creating new Lexicons, and all of that good stuff. If this gravy hasn't catastrophically gone off in the fridge, I'll see you there!