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
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...
So, one of my current endeavors (with friends!) is starting a group called Leaky Bucket, where we make things. Our initial idea for it was just so that we could have a little branding if we ever make something together and don’t want to...
I made a game I call Flapjack Fwop! Try to get butter on all of the pancakes! Try it here I started working on it last night watching Mrs. Maisel and finished it today to Law & Order! It’s my first time using CSS Grid and the new(ish)...
The Scrabble keyboard has been a passion project of mine, and now it's real!
Just released my latest side project with Electron, React, and Redux!
After a bunch of trial and error, I built and programmed my first mechanical keyboard!
This week was my first week at L4 Digital!
I did a writing exercise using a random Wikipedia page. And puns.
I've been learning about... learning lately, specifically subconscious learning. Here's what I've found!