Add initial theming, about page, and first week of weeknotes

Author: katestud

_config.yml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # For technical reasons, this file is *NOT* reloaded automatically when you use
 # 'bundle exec jekyll serve'. If you change this file, please restart the server process.
 #
-# If you need help with YAML syntax, here are some quick references for you: 
+# If you need help with YAML syntax, here are some quick references for you:
 # https://learn-the-web.algonquindesign.ca/topics/markdown-yaml-cheat-sheet/#yaml
 # https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/yaml/
 #
@@ -30,10 +30,28 @@ twitter_username: jekyllrb
 github_username:  jekyll
 
 # Build settings
-theme: minima
+remote_theme: samarsault/plainwhite-jekyll
 plugins:
   - jekyll-feed
 
+show_excerpts: true
+# Customizations specifically for the plainwhite theme
+plainwhite:
+  name: Kate Studwell
+  tagline: Software Engineer
+  date_format: "%b %-d, %Y"
+
+  social_links:
+    twitter: katestud
+    github: katestud
+    linkedIn: in/katestudwell # format: locale/username
+
+  portfolio_image:  "assets/portfolio.png"
+
+  navigation:
+    - title: About
+      url: "/about"
+
 # Exclude from processing.
 # The following items will not be processed, by default.
 # Any item listed under the `exclude:` key here will be automatically added to

_posts/2021-05-14-weeknotes.md

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+---
+layout: post
+title:  "week 1"
+date:   2021-05-14 15:34:03 -0400
+categories: weeknotes
+---
+
+* My colleage and friend, [Lere](https://lrbr.dev/), inspired me to start writing weeknotes. I want to spend more time reflecting on what I've learned and help shift my mindset to focus on the bigger picture.
+* I'm giving a presentation on "highly impactful code review" on Monday and have been spending the week preparing. A trusted mentor helped me better articulate the "why" and vision of the presentation. Learning: I'm great at communicating the tactical "how" behind a process, but the strategic "why" needs some... work. Rubber ducking isn't good just for coding, but for presentations, too!
+* I enjoyed reading about two very different approaches to scaling video transcoding last week. Netflix's ["more synchronous workflows"](https://netflixtechblog.com/the-netflix-cosmos-platform-35c14d9351ad) approach is much different take from YouTube's ["build a custom chip"](https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/new-era-video-infrastructure). So cool to see similar(-ish) problems being solved in such different ways.
+

_posts/2021-05-14-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown

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+---
+layout: page
+title: About
+permalink: /about/
+---
+
+Hi! I'm Kate Studwell. I'm currently an engineer at [GitHub](https://github.com/katestud).
+
+Right now, I'm serving as a technical advisor, which means I get to work across the engineering org and help teams reduce friction and ship great products.