books
Resources for a native plant meadow yarden
Especially for, but not limited to, in Lincoln, Nebraska
Cassey Lottman
code
Using Sanity CMS to host an image gallery for an existing 11ty site
I've seen a few tutorials now on using Sanity CMS with Eleventy, but they all assume I want to use the Sanity/Eleventy starter project, not an Eleventy site I already have. cassey.dev is built on Eleventy, and I don't want to start my whole
eleventy
Just Enough JavaScript for Eleventy
Sometimes I hear from people who'd like to try out the well-loved and hip static site generator Eleventy, but their main programming language expertise is in something other than JavaScript and they're worried it will be too challenging to configure and use. This post attempts to
code
Dynamically choosing a data file to use in Eleventy templates
Today in the Eleventy Discord, someone came in with a tricky problem. They wanted to set an environment variable to the name of a data file, and then in a Nunjucks template, use the data file that was specified as an environment variable. They were stumped on how to make
code
Converting a simple HTML site to use Eleventy
So, you have a site that currently consists of one or more HTML files, and maybe some images. Your site is growing, and you're starting to think that using a template engine might be nice so you can write your pages in Markdown, or share your meta tags
code
Getting your bearings in an existing Eleventy project
There are some great tutorials out there on building your own Eleventy site from scratch, but what if you are planning to make some contributions to an Eleventy site that already exists? Maybe it's a site originally built by other people at your company, or maybe it'
reflection
2020 In Lists
The music that kept me going 1. The Mountain Goats 1. according to Spotify this is what I played the absolute most - all 5 of my top 5 songs came from The Mountain Goats. It was the music I played most of the time in the car, when Wren
year-in-review
2020 In Review
You have probably already observed, or heard someone else observe, that time seemed to flow in a new pattern this year. It's become common for strangers to include statements like “time's not real” in workplace and check-out line banter. I've seen countless jokes about
My 2019 In Review
It is very cliche to say that this year, no matter what year it was, was a big year, but... 2019 was a big year for me! I appeared on the ballot in a municipal race, got married, tried & failed to garden, moved my body a lot and read
books
Great Housing Reads
Books * Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. * This should be required reading for anyone thinking about housing policy in the United States. So often we think only of helping people afford houses, but housing affordability needs to include renters, too. 'Evicted' discusses the
resources
Favorite Resources for Learning French
I learned French in high school by taking classes online from the UNL Independent Study High School, then spending 10 months in France as a foreign exchange student with Youth for Understanding. I often get asked what supplementary resources I used to learn French. Here's my short list.
reflection
A Tribute to Friendship with Dan Owens
"Cowboy Dan" Owens and I were an unlikely pair, but he was my best friend. At the high school basketball game where I met Dan, I was quietly sitting in the bleachers with some friends, several empty rows between us and the court. I was a nerdy teenager