Cassidy’s Blog
Web Development
Posts about building websites (including this one!)
Toot toot! Mastodon-powered Blog Comments Thu, Jul 6, 2023
The Fediverse—and Mastodon’s API—is magic for static Jekyll sites
If you follow me on Mastodon, you’ve probably heard that I’ve added Mastodon-powered comments to this here blog. If you missed it, check it…
Give your SVGs light/dark style support Fri, Jun 30, 2023
prefers-color-scheme and media queries are magic
I’ve recently been contributing to Flathub and updating my own website a bit, and I found myself wanting to recolor SVGs for light and…
Developing a GitHub Pages/Jekyll Site on Fedora Silverblue or Endless OS Sun, Dec 18, 2022
Documenting for my own purposes—but hopefully it’s helpful!
For the past decade, I’ve used Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based distributions like elementary OS. As such, I’ve gotten used to or put up with certain…
Simple scroll-to-top in vanilla JavaScript and CSS Fri, Jun 3, 2022
Continuing my series of documenting things for myself
I’ll probably expand on this in the future, but I am fairly proud of how this turned out! A client wanted a back-to-top button…
The New elementary Store is Here Mon, Apr 26, 2021
Stand-alone, open source, and much more flexible
For the past several months our web team has been working on a new merch store to replace the old manual front-end—and we’re ready…
Estimating “Read Time” in Jekyll Tue, Jan 12, 2021
See it in use right here on the blog!
I’m a huge fan of static site generators like Jekyll, which I’m using for my website and various elementary sites like the elementary Blog….
Welcome to the New Blog Thu, Aug 15, 2019
Why we left Medium, and how!
In 2016, elementary moved to a Medium publication to host our official blog. At the time, Medium was touted as a simple, clean, and…
AppCenter Website Updates Mon, Jan 28, 2019
Release notes, prices, and more
In July, we revealed a brand new experience for sharing AppCenter URLs, powered by a new AppCenter website. It’s now been running smoothly for…
Introducing New AppCenter Sharing URLs Fri, Jul 20, 2018
Easily share apps to users whether or not they’re on elementary OS
Over the past several weeks I’ve been working on a revamped appcenter.elementary.io. Today I’m happy to announce its official debut! In the past, this…
Kicking off 2017 with Web Updates Sun, Jan 1, 2017
While we accomplished a ton last year, we’re already knocking things out for 2017.
Over the last 24 hours, we’ve made a handful of improvements to our website, starting with… Get Involved Funding section on the Get Involved…