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Cassey Lottman

Tips for Running 11ty on Cloudflare Pages

This week I designed & built a new 11ty site to support an advocacy effort among primarily Canadian zine creators opting out of a major Canadian zine festival due to the founder's genocide denial. It's called Can't Zine. This is the first Eleventy site

Fallen London: A web-based game you should try

This summer I started playing a web-based, fairly casual game called Fallen London. I think you should play it, too (not least because I need more friends to help me reduce my menaces when I've done too many dangerous or scandalous deeds) and here's why! You

Having a Two Year Old is Great

Today I would like to sing the praises of parenting a two year old. I am having so much fun, and my kid is such a joy to be around. Sometimes the narrative around parenting a toddler is all about the Terrible Twos or having a Threenager and how your

My Productivity Systems

The other day I came across the results page for a "Back to School" Community Code Jam hosted by 32-Bit Cafe, an online community for website hobbyists & professionals. The Code Jam was a challenge to build a webpage about "a complicated concept you love explaining."

Many Things Are True: The Hard Choice to Leave

I have been working to learn over the last decade or so to reject binary frameworks: very little (but probably not nothing, I note with irony) is an all or nothing proposition; very little is as black and white as the convenient narratives and theories of my childhood made it

Why I Think Lincoln, Nebraska is Great

Today A month ago (this took a bit to finish writing, it turns out) I read a blog by Lou Plummer about the town he lives in: Fayetteville, NC. I thought it was a nice little look at his view of what makes his town nice to live in, and

Places I Might Shop Online for Suits

Sometimes people with a body type similar to mine want to wear a suit to some fancy event, and don't know where to shop. They may be looking for a more masculine or androgynous look, or they may just want something that fits a body with hips/butt/

Resources To Start a Blog

Theory * Everyone Should Blog, and That Includes You, a manifesto. * I recently read a post (sorry, have already lost the link) that emphasized that you should just pick a way to blog (a static site you built? WordPress? something else?) and then stop messing with it and just get writing.

Reflections on 2023

Broad Strokes We moved to a new house in Lincoln early this year. We also spent a lot of the year planning to move away from this house, and out of Nebraska entirely. This fall, we received the paperwork that will let us move to Canada as permanent residents. We

My "If I Die" Doc

I think it's really important to be prepared for the unexpected. One of those unexpected outcomes might be that I could die much earlier than I hope to. Maybe even both my spouse and I could die at the same time, leaving my family to take over our