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Cassey Lottman

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Why try an hour of code?

Raikes Cohort Christmas

Corporate Finance in a Half-Digital Classroom

It's a Unix system, I know this!

Pretty Scroll Animations - How do they do that?

Can remote work save small town America?

Why the Charlie Hebdo Attack is So Devastaing

Pourquoi l'attentat de Charlie Hebdo met en émoi la France toute entière

You Don't Have to be a Genius to Make the Web Better

Multiagent Systems - The most interesting field you've never heard of

Startup Weekend Nebraska: Serious about being safe & inclusive

Freemium for [Digital] Print Journalism

All kinds of people help make the corporate world go 'round

I am part of the problem.

Internal Tools are the Worst

Easy Vegetarian Lunches

Two Months of Mobile UX: Just Don't.

What's the Deal with #BlackLivesMatter?

I saw democracy and it was beautiful.

Theme Generators for Android

Xamarin Android List Adapter

Async Unit Tests in C#

Soft Delete with EntityFramework Dynamic Filters

Convert Xamarin PCL Template to use NET Standard

Xamarin Android RelativeLayout Designer

Useful Textbooks from a Computer Science Degree

Moral Foundations Matter

Xamarin Netstandard Blog Draft

Converting to target netstandard14 in addtion to netFramework461

Custom ContentView Renderer in Xamarin Forms iOS

Xamarin Forms Reading

A Tribute to Friendship with Dan Owens

Check Build Configuration When the Wrong Project is Building in Visual Studio

Converting a Javascript Project to Typescript for Beginners

How Crisis Text Line Helps Those In Crisis

Accessibility Testing/Coding Resources

Favorite Resources for Learning French

Sharing Experiences and Building Community Online

Screenreader Practice

Parcel Doesn't Support CSS Modules Without Config

React as a UI Runtime

How Error Handling Works in Browsers

Manuscript filtering

Babel options & require vs import

What is Math?

Accessibility is not a React Problem

How Screenreaders Use Semantics

Iconfinder

Speed in Function Components

Learning to Learn

Class vs Function Components

Shadow Power

The Glitch Logo Changes Color

#SheCoded on Dev.to

Accessibility on the Million Most Popular Sites

useEffect in React

Alt Text on Stock Photos

When to use useReducer in React

React Component Design Patterns

Valid Children of `<html>`

Itemscope Attribute in HTML

Book of Shaders

Firefox Page Ruler

React Material UI Thoughts

Why I Became a Community Health Engineer

Developer Tools & Inclusion

Is this feature toggle on?

Using Live Expressions in Chrome to Track the Focused Element

Why do remote meetings suck?

Favorite Non-Meat Recipes

Meeting Facilitation for Remote Workers

Navigating Anger & Sadness in the Workplace

Glitch App to Glitch Project Extension

A perfect Lighthouse Score on a perfectly inaccessible website

'Making Badass Developers' by Kathy Sierra

Great Housing Reads

Driver Hits Person on Bike, Driver Drives Away, Nothing Happens

The HTML Element Specification and Accessibility

Using process.env variables in Eleventy

Getting your Glitch Project Domain in Your Code

Impact of Accessibility on Link vs Button in HTML

Thoughts on The Commons LNK and 'Transformations'

More People Set Custom Font Sizes than Use Internet Explorer

Disruptive Design: Harmful Patterns and Bad Practice

I read (some of) NIFA's '2019 Profile of Nebraska'. Here's what I learned.

Readings on Accessibility

"From Puzzles to Products" by Jessica Kerr

The effects of Neuro and Muscular Disabilities with Dr. Neil Matthiessen

July 19 Newsletter

My first look at Bulma for CSS

July 27 Roundup

Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen

Does <details> work with Assistive Technology?

Designing Against Domestic Violence

Notes & Tweets from NE JS Conf

Today I Discovered React Axe

Notes from "Rethinking Color and Contrast"

Voiceover with Safari & List Semantics

Assorted Readings

September 3 Roundup

I read: "Meet Border-box, my best friend."

Learnings from Strange Loop

Learning about styled components

Mocking a React Component with Sinon

Teaching Accessibility

October 23 Roundup

Accessibility Insights runs a subset of rules from Axe

CSS properties that create an implicit stacking context

Elements with overflow: scroll become focusable

My 2019 In Review

2019: A year of many apps

Flash of Invisible Text

Deep-diving the CSS Cascade

Funeral Sandwiches: a poem

Status Update: a poem

Testing Modern React with Enzyme Shallow

Opening a new window from a Firefox Add-On

Referencing an .env value in an NPM script

Advice Columns for the Apocalypse

Pandemic Memes

Making a tweet roundup

Pandemic Poetry

Reading the News in This Particular Moment in History

Using <aside>

Chrome has its own Task Manager

Delete all local branches that have been deleted from a remote

Make your twitter cards look nicer

Good Advice for a Pandemic

Sharing Styles in Styled Components

Watching 'What the heck is the event loop, anyways?'

Visiting Bottomline Corp in Spiritfarer

Why do some tweets not respect my minimum font size?

Setting a layout for every page generated from a particular folder in Eleventy

Firefox Responsive Design Mode and Hover Events

Firefox Container Gotchas

Starting to pick up Ruby & Rails

Adjusting site colors for better contrast

How can I see my new blog post rendered before I deploy, if I don't have my whole dev environment?

Asdf is a version manager promising to replace all the version managers

What is that percent sign doing in my `cat` output?

How to make asdf recognize globally installed npm modules

How to open the current directory in finder from terminal on a mac

Settings I want on a new machine

Continuous Integration: another definition

Using the beforeBuild hook to render Sass in Eleventy

How to make your Javascript class instance have all the properties of some other object

I'm reading: 'A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior'

2020 In Review

2020 In Lists

Polymer Clay and Delayed Gratification

The Ruby splat operator can destructure arrays

npx eleventy !== npx @11ty/eleventy

Getting your bearings in an existing Eleventy project

Using Nunjucks shortcodes in Markdown files in Eleventy

Deep dive into img attributes

What's this tilde arrow thing in my Gemfile?

Converting a simple HTML site to use Eleventy

Dynamically choosing a data file to use in Eleventy templates

Just Enough JavaScript for Eleventy

2021 in Books

Using Sanity CMS to host an image gallery for an existing 11ty site

Getting all the records of a model created today in Rails

Making Rails recognize code in subfolders of default folders

Verbose Active Record query logs for Rails

Debugging strategies using binding.pry in Rails

Reflections on America in Decline

Host your own community event: a zine

Choose Community: a zine

Resources for a native plant meadow yarden

Essay on My Baby

Adding stack traces to versions stored by the Papertrail Ruby gem

Does that thing have a battery on it? a zine about ebikes

My Internet

Simple Guide to Cricut Models (with no ads)

2022 in Review

2022 in Books

Book Recs for a Parent-to-Be

Items I loved for my new baby

Here for Community

Manual change tracking in Ruby on Rails

CSV.generate behavior change in Ruby 3 vs Ruby 2.7

Lincoln Housing Justice History

Notes on Your Money or Your Life

Fetching & caching data from Airtable in my 11ty site

Transgender History: transgender & reproductive liberation

Rails controller params can be accessed by string or symbol (with indifferent access!)

Notes on Essentialism

Board Game Recommendations for Casual Board Gamers

Using Obsidian for Notes & Research Projects

Cassey's Holiday Gift Guide

So You Want To Move to Canada

Language Learning Resources I Like

My 'If I Die' Doc

Transferring my Baldur's Gate 3 Save from Windows to Steam Deck

2023 in Software Tools

Reflections on 2023

Using Pronto for CI on a Rails project without cluttery comments

Abundance

Desiring the Product that will Solve a Situation Perfectly

Ruby on Rails Model Association Reminders

That time I got stuck holding a stranger's baby in my own living room

Cozy Reading Recs from the Women in Tech chat

Adding Decap CMS to 11ty

"The Overspent American" by Juliet Schor

Really Big Bike Trailers

Life Hack: Add a new list in Paprika for non-grocery stores

Resources for the Fun Web

Queer Book Recommendations

My Favorite Mugs

Resources To Start a Blog

Visiting Great Wolf Lodge with a 2 Year Old

Taking an old sewing machine in for repair

Crafty Thrift Stores & More in the Kansas City Metro

C&C Processing Parade Floats

Notes on: 'A Well-Contained Life'

Frontmatter Templates for New Blog Posts

Mid April 2024: Some Joys

Board Games for Toddlers

Places I Might Shop Online for Suits

Dev Snippets & Keyboard Shortcuts

Why are most Web Accessibility Checkers Browser Extensions or Bookmarklets?

How to Prepare for Climate Change by David Pogue: Where to Live notes

Yoto Player vs Toniebox for screen-free kid audio

Why I Think Lincoln, Nebraska is Great

Settings in My Shell Profile that Just Make Sense

Many Things Are True: The Hard Choice to Leave

Upcoming Rain Notifications on iOS

My Productivity Systems

What Do You Mean It Looks Gen-Z? A Journey

Having a Two Year Old is Great

Fallen London: A web-based game you should try

Tips for Running 11ty on Cloudflare Pages

HAM Radio for Community Preparedness

Healthcare in Canada for Newcomers

Logistical Tips for Moving from the US to Canada

Things I've Been Enjoying Lately

Big Sister as Gender

My Preparedness Library

Migrating a a Rails Project from rails-ujs to Turbo

Frontend Assets in Ruby on Rails Through the Years

Minitest assert_equals order style

Setting an environment variable you only care about in local dev in Rails

Experiences Treating Cradle Cap in my Newborn

Setting the root route in Ruby on Rails with Devise

Ways to Reduce Consumerism

Hosting your Static Site on Cloudflare: Tips & Tricks

One Year in Canada

Fixing Charset and Collation of a Mysql Database Out of Sync with Teammates

What Makes These Cities Feel Like Themselves

Toothpaste Should Not Burn, Actually