Cassidy Williams
Cassidy Williams
Cassidy Williams
Hi! I’m Cassidy, and I like to make memes and dreams and software. I’m the Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub! Outside of that fancy title, I’m a startup advisor and investor, open source-er, and meme-maker on the internet. I enjoy building mechanical keyboards, playing music, hanging out with my family and friends, and teaching in my free time.
Latest Posts
Don't be lost, don't be unfound, a 404 page gives you steady ground!
Get rid of those long, gross import statements in your Next.js apps!
Our team at Netlify loves coding together, remotely!
CSS only gets you so far, sometimes, when you want to pay attention to window sizes!
When things are server-side, there's some tricks to get back to client-land!
Hot module reloading has a new look!
Next.js allows you to both server-side render and statically generate websites. Why would you choose one over the other? Read and find out!
Ever wondered how you should manage state information across your Next.js applications without installing anything extra? Look no further!
Burnout is difficult to describe to people who haven’t felt it. But it was also a valuable lesson. Here's a few tips on how to take care of your ambitious self and avoid burning out.
Using cutting edge tech can help you move fast. But what happens when something breaks and you can't find experts with an answer? There are pros and cons to being a pioneer.
A little while back, I tweeted out an emoji that I made that I lovingly called “Mild Panic” and it went pretty dang viral all over Twitter and Reddit. After the notifications died down, I thought, “hey, let’s put this emoji on things”...
My latest endeavor I’m excited about is that I’m going to start writing for Stack Overflow’s newsletter! It started because a friend of mine who works at Stack Overflow said that they wanted to re-vamp the blog at the company, and I...
This week I put together this cute little Pen for the Dessert CodePen challenge! I’m pleased with it, overall. There were some really funky things I ran into with positioning, but I got to try a few new techniques on this Pen. I used...
This past week I spoke at 4 different events, the two big ones being DinosaurJS and React Loop. It was a blast! Both events were organized really well. At DinosaurJS, I spoke about building CodePen’s Babel 7 processor. In the talk I went...
Last night I put this little light switch Pen together! I have a power strip under my desk with a switch like this one, and based it on that! So, first of all, I probably should have done this with an HTML checkbox, and then I could have...