I'm Cassidy, I live in Chicago and love building things! I started coding after I had a chance encounter with a neighbor when I walked home from school in 8th grade. I heard them say, "check out my website," and I didn't realize you could have your own website. From there I just scoured the internet teaching myself everything I could about making them! I went on to study computer science at Iowa State University, got deep into the hackathon scene, lived in Spain, in the Bay Area, in NYC, and in Seattle, and tried out a bunch of jobs at mostly startups, with some larger companies in between. I love teaching and making things for fun and utility!
I've been blogging on and off for almost 20 years. My current blog doesn't actually have all of my writing in it (yet?) because sometimes it's on my own domains, sometimes for companies, sometimes just out in the open. I get a lot of value from writing things I learn (because I often run into problems again, I've run into my own blog posts while debugging something multiple times), and so I try to do it regularly in case it might be able to help someone else, as well.
On my newsletter side, I started it in 2017 as a way to more consistently write and share. It's turned into probably my most important project I've taken on in my career, with several thousand subscribers and an issue that comes out every week!
I usually write pretty off-the-cuff, and usually in Obsidian, my note taking tool. I've actually written about my trying out TinaCMS and how I publish from Obsidian, as well! I also have a note of blog ideas if I want to write something but I'm not sure how to get started.
I do think that physical space can influence you, and I love writing under a blanket on the couch, ha! That being said, I think people can be creative anywhere.
My day-to-day involves a lot of coding, meetings, and general writing. I use:
I host my blog on Netlify, and it's an Astro website, and it's open source
Hmm, sometimes I wish I used something like Wordpress where I just write and don't think about how my blog is built. But at the same time, I like being able to control easily all parts of my website and really own it!
My blog costs about $180 a year for the domain, analytics, and hosting. My newsletter on top of that brings it up more, because that costs about $140 a month. Luckily my newsletter brings in some sponsorship money to offset the costs though. I say that if someone can make money with the content they make, more power to them!
Eleanor Konik writes truly fascinating things.
I'd love to share:
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