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
It’s Blogvent, day 7, where I blog daily in December! I have a little framework that I often use when I want feedback/when I give feedback on a blog post, a tutorial, a project, a product, etc. to get as much clarity as possible,...
It’s Blogvent, day 6, where I blog daily in December! One of my favorite questions to ask people is a very “church kid vibe” question, but is always a really fun one to get answer for: If Jesus’s body and blood were bread and wine, what...
It’s Blogvent, day 5, where I blog daily in December! Today, an Issue I made on a repository 11 years ago was closed. Eleven whole years! The Issue hasn’t been solved yet (the team did say it’s on the roadmap though, so yay, and they had...
It’s Blogvent, day 4, where I blog daily in December! CSS clamp() is cool and you should use it. In a sentence, clamp() lets you assign a value to a CSS property between a minimum and a maximum range, and uses a preferred value in that...
It’s Blogvent, day 3, where I blog daily in December! In case you missed it, there was a pretty bad security vulnerability recently with React Server Components. Luckily, the team updated everything, hooray, so people can upgrade their...
Howdy y’all! I’m starting my latest Blogvent series, where I write a useful blog post each day in December! If you wanna see last year’s roundup, check them out! Oh no, stale things! You don’t want old pull requests and issues to clog...
It’s Blogvent, day 2, where I blog daily in December! Why change commit timestamps? With my current blogging setup, I write most of my posts in Obsidian, and sometimes TinaCMS. I wrote about that process in detail, here. This setup still...
Like many of us, I’ve become the family IT person for a lot of situations. My grandpa got hit with a pretty good (“good”) scam lately that I’ve had to clean up. His email password was taken, and a bunch of us in the family got emails...
At work, we have a livestream show called Rubber Duck Thursdays where we talk about open source and code each week. It’s really fun and you can find it on GitHub’s YouTube, Twitch, and LinkedIn channels. This past week, on the stream...
Like many people in tech nowadays, I use LLMs at work. I like using GitHub Copilot, genuinely, not just because I’m a GitHub employee. It’s not perfect, no tool is, but it helps make easy problems easier, and I can focus on thinking on...
My 2.5 year old Nadia told me some lovely sentiments as we walked today.
My maternity leave is over, I'm back at GitHub, and I'm ready to go. Kinda.
I like to test AI image and video generation tools with this prompt. It's very effective.
My latest iteration in how I take notes on mobile is using the Notebook Navigator plugin and the Cupertino theme in Obsidian!
I used the app Poop Map for over 5 years, for the memes. A tale of perseverence and triumph.