Hi! I'm Cassian Godsted. I work at Northern Kentucky University's College of Informatics as an Operations and Events Assistant, and at the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati as the Internal Systems Admin. I'm President of the Norse IoT club at NKU, where I study Computer Information Technology. In my free time, I build web projects and Minecraft modpacks.
INTERalliance Projects
The INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati is an education focused nonprofit focused on getting local students interested in technology. In 2017, I was hired onto INTERalliance as an intern, to handle various IT tasks during the summer while the Leadership Council IT Team was on summer break.
I ended up sticking around, and my current role as the Internal Systems Admin at INTERalliance handles all aspects of INTERalliance's IT needs throughout the year, from web development, to Windows and Linux laptop automation, to Python scripting and data analysis.
I've also had the opportunity to manage, maintain, and redesign the main INTERalliance and TechOlympics websites, as well as the site for our Wiki Races web app, and through INTERalliance was also given the opportunity to redesign the website for the Carnegie, a local theater in Covington, KY.
My biggest contribution to INTERalliance is the new versions of INTERalliance.org and TechOlympics.org, as well as the website for WiIT Cincy. They're powered by GitHub Pages, make use of Jekyll for dynamic data, and are automatically backed up in case of emergency. While not as initially user friendly as the former Wordpress and Elementor powered sites, they allow new ILC members to learn the foundations of HTML and CSS in a safe and backed up environment.
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INTERalliance
Maintained, developed, and redesigned the INTERalliance website across three years.
read more...Over the years I've managed and maintained the site, making small improvements and content changes as needed.
In 2024, I rebuilt this site from scratch, replacing the Wordpress site with a new Jekyll-powered GitHub Pages site.
Notice: The INTERalliance site is copyrighted by the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati, and I work on the site while employed there.
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TechOlympics
Maintained and later rebuilt the website for the nation's largest student-run tech conference from scratch.
read more...Most of my time spent managing the TechOlympics site has been general maintenance.
In 2024, I rebuilt this site from scratch, replacing the Wordpress site with a new Jekyll-powered GitHub Pages site.
TechOlympics is copyrighted by the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati, and I work on the site while employed there.
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Wiki Races
Maintained and helped redesigned the Wiki Races web app.
read more...When TechOlympics switched to a virtual event in 2021, all of our competitions needed to be reworked to accomodate. One of these competitions was Wiki Races, a game where players race from one Wikipedia article to another by making connections between them using internal links.
Because no off the shelf solution existed, Zack Sargent of the INTERalliance Leadership Council wrote a custom website to keep users on track.
After he graduated, I took over maintenance of the project, and worked with him in 2023 to do a full face lift, giving it a more modern look.
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WiIT Cincy
Maintained and later rebuilt the website for the Women in IT Conference from scratch.
read more...In 2024, I rebuilt this site from scratch, replacing the Weebly site with a more performant Jekyll-powered GitHub Pages site.
WiIT Cincy's site is copyrighted by WiIT Cincy, and I work on the site while employed at INTERalliance.
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The Carnegie
Rebuilt the website for the local theatre as the sole frontend developer.
read more...While working at INTERalliance, our IT team was asked to remake the website for fellow Cincinnati non-profit The Carnegie.
The Carnegie site is copyrighted by the The Carnegie, and I worked on the site while employed at the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati.
Norse IoT
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Norse IoT Website
As President, I took over hosting and management of the Norse IoT Club Website.
read more...The site was originally created by Chris Brewer and Jonathan Makunga and hosted on a server owned by the Informatics+ department at NKU.
After Informatics+ shut down, I took the opportunity to migrate the site to GitHub Pages, keeping it in the hands of the students.
Since then, I've been steadily upgrading and improving the site.
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Card Reader
Designed a web app to interface with a MagStripe card reader to take attendance.
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Website Workshops
Helped organize a website workshop to teach NKU students how to design their own website.
read more...We taught the basics of HTML and CSS, and showed them how to edit templates and use a network drive.
I designed six templates for students to fill in with their information.
I wrote a guide on accessing the drive and on the day of the event helped with instructing students.
The template site used JavaScript code I wrote to combine the HTML and CSS into one file, and allow students to change CSS on the fly.
In 2022, I was elected Vice President of the Norse IoT Club at NKU. As Vice President, I built an interface for scanning members Student IDs to check them into events, and was responsible for planning and executing our Website Workshops event, where we built HTML/CSS resumes for students to share on their personal NKU websites.
In 2023, I was then elected President of the club. One of my first actions was migrating the club's website to GitHub Pages. One of the chief benefits of this migration was that it was now able to be easily changed by myself and other club leadership and even interested members.
Personal Projects
One of my first personal projects was a site called Tier Away. Tier Away served as a tier list generator. Tier lists, for those unfamiliar, are a quick and easy way to rank various similar things, from the highest S Tier to the lowest F Tier.
Tier Away was prompted by my personal frustration that the only prominent tier list maker program required you to sign in with a social media account, and required that all tier lists you make be public. Tier Away did away with that, and let users dynamically make their own tier lists.
With the help of Luke Trenaman, who I had previously worked with on the INTERalliance Website Redesign in 2022, we built Tier Away in Summer of 2022. Tier Away is still in development but at this point it fulfills my needs for private tier list generation.
Tier Away
Tier Away is a simple, open source tier list creation tool. No accounts, no public data, no prep work, no hassle.
read more...Tier Away was created as a hobbyist project to resolve a seeming lack of clientside tier list makers. Not everything needs to be uploaded to the cloud.
Tier Away was designed by Cassian Godsted, with help from Luke Trenaman.
JustServe
JustServe is a simple, open source, self hosted digital signage tool. No accounts, no public data, no prep work, no hassle.
read more...JustServe was created as a hobbyist project to resolve a seeming lack of self hosted digital signage solutions. Not everything needs to be uploaded to the cloud.
JustServe was designed by Cassian Godsted.
In 2024, I began to work on a digital signage app called JustServe. JustServe is designed to be a simple and reliable digital signage solution that allows for a self-hosted server to show content on multiple connected clients.
The server can be self-hosted on any Linux machine with NodeJS, and all a client needs to connect is a web browser (with WebSocket support). This solution is ideal for conferences that want greater control over their digital signage without needing to pay for a cloud solution.
JustServe is still in active alpha development, so its not ready for production use.
I've also been developing Minecraft modpacks since December of 2020. Recently, I started sharing them on Modrinth, a Minecraft mod sharing site. The packs themselves are developed using Packwiz, and any custom mods are developed in Java and JavaScript.
These packs take a ton of development time. Between mod licensing, compatibility testing, configuration, and development of custom mods and content for the packs, they can be real time sinks. That said, they're some of my favourite projects.
Simply Infinite is the only modpack for Minecraft 20w14infinite, an experimental fork of the main game that adds randomly generated dimensions. Five of the mods in the pack were ported by myself.
Infinity Plus expands upon the features from 20w14infinite, porting the randomly generated dimensions to a modern, stable version of Minecraft, thanks to Lera Riemann's Infinite Dimensions mod, which I contribute to.
Wish Fulfillment: Origins Reforged is the first pack I released publicly. It's for Forge 1.18.2, and is the pack I've worked on the longest, starting development in early 2022, releasing publicly in October of 2023.
Minecraft Modpacks
In my free time, I develop Minecraft modpacks to play with friends. They're all available on Modrinth, a Minecraft modding site.
Connect
Thanks for reading! If you're interested in hiring me, I'm always open to work. Send me an email or connect with me on LinkedIn, and I'll be in touch.
If you're interested in contributing to one of my side projects, check out my GitHub. I'm always working on something new, so check back soon for new projects!