Cassey Lottman

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I’d been wondering about whether my function components in React (using hooks) would be slow due to creating functions within my function component.

Found https://www.iconfinder.com/ which has a ton of really high quality small graphics, many of which are free.

I'm reading about how screenreaders use semantics to decide what to announce.

This is a nice post on accessibility in React.

I’m learning what math is through this article on how it’s different than what we teach kids in schools during math class.

I learned why we run babel with modules: false and what the difference is between require and import.

In Manuscript, searching for viewedBy:me lastEdited:"this month" in the Manuscript case list will help me find cases I've seen recently.

I watched this video (Everything is broken, and I don't know why) over lunch.

I learned about how React works (internally) in this blog post called React as a UI Runtime.

Learning: Parcel seems like it supports CSS Modules out of the box, but it doesn't. :( I was confused about the documentation but figured it out after tracking down a couple closed github issues.

**Updated 2025-12-17**: Since Glitch as 'the friendly community to build on the web' is shut down now, I removed the direct links to Glitch.com that no longer work or won't work soon enough.

As a junior in high school, I spent 10 months living in France with a host family and attending a local lycée.

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.

Here are some favorite resources on designing and developing for all users: Inclusive Design Principles The 6 Simplest Web Accessibility Tests Anyone Can Do WebAIM's 10 Easy Accessibility Tips W3C's Easy Checks for Accessibility Quick Guide to Voiceover on

(January 2024 note: attribution is no longer there on the linked blog post, and it's likely the post has been edited or changed by others since it was originally written back in 2018.)

I couldn't find a Typescript conversion guide for a new developer on our team who was not familiar with Typescript, so I made him one.

I've been having problems getting a release build of my Xamarin Forms iOS project to work.

"Cowboy Dan" Owens and I were an unlikely pair, but he was my best friend.

From Chapter 27, Custom Renderers, in Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms I learned that the way to propagate property changed notifications from a Xamarin Forms control to the custom renderer that renders it, you can overload OnElementPropertyChanged.

Today I learned how to write a custom renderer in iOS for a ContentPage in Xamarin Forms.

Oren says - For some frameworks, like .NET 4.5, that’s all you need to do.

Recently at Ocuvera, we faced the challenge of adding an iOS app to our offerings.

In recent political debates, especially over healthcare, it has become clear to me that not only are people divided, but they often do not understand how the other side could possibly have arrived at the conclusions they did.

In my time as an undergraduate studying Computer Science, I came across several textbooks that were really useful.

Summary: In Xamarin Android, if your layout is RelativeLayout, you can only drag controls into the Designer from the Toolbox onto an edge of an existing control, if there are controls in the RelativeLayout.

Following this tutorial: https://oren.codes/2017/04/23/using-xamarin-forms-with-net-standard-vs-2017-edition/ Create a PCL Cross Platform Forms app Remove the Xamarin.Forms nuget package from the platform-specific csproj.

Problem: 🔗 When we turned off the soft delete filter on our Entity Framework DB connection, we got SQL Exception 26: Error Locating Server/Instance Specified.

Today I learned about ManualResetEventSlim in C#.

Things I learned implementing a list adapter in Xamarin Android - - FindViewById can be an expensive call, so it's recommended to use the holder pattern to keep track in memory of the views you found already - Typically, this is accomplished by using an i…

I've dove into Android development recently at work, and have found that theming all the various components seems more complicated than I'm used to in good ol' CSS.

Today I saw democracy and it was beautiful.

Don't you mean All Lives Matter?

I wrote a blog post for Don't Panic Labs on my experience traveling in Europe with only mobile phone-sized devices, and some of the UX challenges I encountered.

So you want to cut out meat, because it's really hard on the environment and as a first-world resident eating less meat is totally doable.

I wrote a blog post for the company I work for on company culture and what it can be like to work on internal tools.

I realized this a while ago, but it's not exactly something you advertise.

I'm only three days in to my summer software development internship at Microsoft, but one thing has already become abundantly clear: Microsoft does everything at scale.

Several of the news outlets I read online are trying to stay profitable by enticing readers with a limited number of free articles per month, with a paid subscription required after that limit has been reached.

It’s no secret that the tech industry, for whatever reason, isn’t particularly hospitable towards women or racial minorities.

As a computer science major, I have the exciting opportunity to occasionally take entire classes about topics that most people have never heard of.

I'm experimenting with the audience/style I want to aim for on this blog.

Click to see this post in English Le 7 janvier, le siège de Charlie Hebdo, un journal satirique français, a subi un attentat commis par trois personnes.

Cliquez ici pour une traduction de cet article en français.

One advantage of a career in software engineering is the ability to work from anywhere in the world.

I've been looking at a lot of Node.js tutorials lately, and this one from Scotch.io really stood out.

A couple days ago I finally broke down a and bought a Mac.

There's a lot of hype about the potential for MOOCs (free, online college-level courses) to disrupt academia.

Last night was our annual Christmas party for my Raikes class (aka cohort).

This week is the Hour of Code, a big push by the nonprofit Code.org to get as many people as possible to set aside an hour to learn the basics of code.