Cassey Lottman

belongs_to gets the database column 🔗 For a one-to-one or one-to-many relationship, the side with the belongs_to is the one where the database column (other_model_id) goes.

I am trying to notice more when I have the desire to buy stuff, and ask more questions about why I want to do that.

Check out all the posts tagged 'abundance' on my site.

On many Ruby on Rails projects I've worked on, Pronto is in use to run linting rules as part of CI on every pull request.

Broad Strokes 🔗 We moved to a new house in Lincoln early this year.

I have another post on New Year's Reflections more broadly, but it was getting a bit long so I wanted to move the software & tools section out.

Notes to self on the process I followed, to transfer a save file I started on my wife's Windows PC for Baldur's Gate 3, to my newly purchased Steam Deck with a fresh install of BG3.

I think it's really important to be prepared for the unexpected.

I still stand by all the posts in my 2018 French resources post, but there are a few other things I've used since then for languages including French, Spanish, and German (and some that are for other languages, too!).

Have you given serious thought to moving from the US to Canada?

Despite my best efforts to embrace a less consumerist lifestyle (a constant work in progress)..

There are a lot of different tools out there that you can use to write notes.

Recently someone in a Discord I'm in asked for recommendations on upgrading from the classic board games (Life, Uno, Sorry, etc) to new games that might be nice to play with other adults at a family gathering.

I just finished reading the book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown.

The other day I was writing a Rails controller test on a controller that was using a hash of the parameters.

This originally appeared as a series of tweets but I want it to live on my website instead so here it is.

I've been seeing a lot of people blog about setting up a now page on their website.

I've seen people in online personal finance spaces mention the book "Your Money or Your Life" quite positively, but didn't really know what to expect when I came across it on my library's e-book lending app the other night and started reading it.

This originally appeared as a series of tweets but I want it to live on my website instead so here it is.

Today I was working on some code that generated some CSV reports like this: def self.my_cool_report(options = {}) CSV.generate(options) do |csv| The codebase was recently updated from Ruby 2.7.6 to Ruby 3.2.1.

This week I was working on a project where the users need to see the history of changes to a particular model.

My friend E keeps a truck she calls the solidarity truck.

these burp cloths are great, get a ton.

I read a lot of books while pregnant and in my first year of parenting, about pregnancy, giving birth, and parenting.

I read a lot of books this year.

2022 started with a lot of impatience and discomfort for me.

For most people interested in getting started with Cricut, I recommend the Cricut Explore Air 2.

Inspired by the Embedded newsletter's "My Internet" series, I'm gonna tell you a bit about what I do when I'm online.

I made a zine about e-bikes.

I've been working on a tricky bug for a client at Unabridged Software where data records are getting created over and over somewhere in the code, and I'm having trouble figuring out where.

I'm sitting at Cultiva with my baby and I still can't get over the fact of it: my, that she's really mine, and baby, that she's real and sentient and so small and one day, will be her own and not mine at all.

Several years ago we converted the lawn in front of my house to a native plant meadow-style garden.

I made a zine on the importance of community.

I made a zine on how to host your own community event.

I kiss my baby's bald spot after another mass shooting at an elementary school and wonder if anything about the world will be better in 6 years when she starts school herself.

Something I had to get used to when switching to primarily Ruby on Rails development while working at Unabridged is debugging using binding.pry instead of a step-debugger tool. pry lets you stop the execution of running code, and inspect the values of all…

Today I was testing some code in the Rails console and kept seeing the same database call over and over, but I couldn't figure out where it was coming from.

Today I was making some improvements to a client's Rails codebase.

My favorite thing I've learned recently is something I learned when needing to remove a bunch of records that had just been created in a Rails app.

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 project over.

I read a lot of books in 2021!

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 u…

Today in the Eleventy Discord, someone came in with a tricky problem.

So, you have a site that currently consists of one or more HTML files, and maybe some images.

Today I learned two new concept-phrases: "pessimistic versioning" and "twiddle-wakka" (yes really).

For a 6-week "Professional Learning Community" initiative at work, I'm in a group focused on learning more about Eleventy, especially using Eleventy for images, and best practices for images on the web in general.

Today I started taking a look at Eleventy Image, a powerful plugin for Eleventy that generates images in optimal sizes and formats for the web.

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?

The other day when I went to add a post to my TIL blog, I got a scary error message.

Today I learned about the splat operator in ruby, aka the * or asterisk operator.