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Cassidy Williams

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This is probably the most I will ever pretend

Ductts Build Log

Making a customizable wooden phone for my toddler

Making a faded text effect in (mostly) CSS

That Windy City Keeb Meet 2025 recap

Have GitHub Copilot see your diff (and other cool tricks)

Using personal instructions in GitHub Copilot Chat

Tools using tools

I (don't?) want to say yes to everything

Generating open graph images in Astro

Making Puppeteer work at build time on Netlify

Building for a physical scavenger hunt with Astro, Tally, and Netlify

Baby sayings

PocketCal Build Log

What does it mean to flatten an array?

Styling the icon for HTML date and time types

My second c-section experience

End of an era with Stack Overflow

Keybindings I use in VS Code

Make your images in markdown on GitHub adjust for Dark Mode and Light Mode

Things I learned while upgrading my iPad

I don't know what MCP is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

Geek mama... saying no... part 2

Create an HTML dialog when you click an image

I am going to have a second baby and my brain is spinning

We should have more friction in our lives

Think less, ship more

Debugging my Micro Journal

Convert a video from dark mode to light mode with FFmpeg!

Re-ordering Git commits

A couple CSS tricks for HTML Dialog elements

Making my startup come back to life

How to use GitHub Copilot Edits

Adios, 2024

The beautiful sentence that is the web

Wrapping up Blogvent 2024

I really love entering raffles

How I use Obsidian Dataview

How I use Obsidian Templater

It would be cool for 2024 to just calm down

Browser extensions I shipped in 2024

How I approach humor

I have become a minor writing utensil snob

Introduce yourself to your remote team

How to make your RSS feed pretty

How to switch to Astro Content Collections

Updating my blog to use Astro Collections

Choose kindness over pile-ons

The developer relations pendulum swings again

Noticing the little things

Actively learning languages

Tracking side project income

Doing things that don't scale is about finding value

33 of my own joke concepts that have never seen the light of day

Ship it anyway

Writing good words for tech folks

Combining tools for fun and profit

The what and the what now: note-taking

Fighting open source spam with interaction limits

Being forced to upgrade

Haunted by my own projects

Two months at GitHub

I fell asleep in a driverless car

A note on the future of Jumblie

Sleep is the most magical thing in the world

A Quick Guide for Building your own GitHub Copilot Extension

Side quests

Time containers

Voice lessons taught me that I should be... true to myself

Making a simple React microphone component

Why JavaScript variables don't always update

Layering CSS gradients

Traveling to technical events: A guide

Analog girly

Building the Micro Journal

Getting paid is weird and sometimes hard

Actually try on your job applications

The Productivity apps I use in 2024

Figma Config recap

Being funemployed, and all that jazz

Greetings, future billionaires

The Merge in Berlin recap

Nice keyboards make me want to write blogs

I rewrote my blog! And website! They are one!

Front-end Design Conference recap

Seattle and the internet

Non-traditional push presents

I love reading fantasy again

Building W-9 Crafter

Styling a CSS pseudo-element with JavaScript

Jumblie has a database!

Tips for posting on LinkedIn

How to test a browser extension locally

Sorting Git branches

Use CSS accent-color to style your inputs

HTML "self-awareness" with sibling indexing in JavaScript

Base CSS for your text-based pages

Kind of annoyed at React

I miss human curation

Jumblie 100

Experimenting with AI voice

Cassidy Williams... who is she

Buh bye, 2023

Stock options, vesting, and exercising, oh my

Publishing to my blog from Obsidian

Ideal fishing spots

Geek mama... saying no

Making a single line break in markdown

Cassidy's Gift Guide 2023

Jumblie Build Log

A use-case for CSS :has()

My first go tournament

Adding co-authors to TinaCMS's Git commits

How and when to use keys in React

Thirteen Potions Build Log

Trying out TinaCMS

Calling an imported API at runtime in Astro

Co-authoring Git commits

Why I like Astro

Maternity TV

Dear Cassidy of 2 months ago

Open standards, trust, and Google

Removing trailing space underlines from groups of anchor tags

Turning todos into tadas

My c-section experience

Three ways to set headers with Netlify and Astro

The Productivity apps I use in 2023

Memorize quotes

When useEffect runs

Quirky local delights

Setting up Netlify Redirects with Astro

Loving and hating the streak

The small, private wins

Importing SVG files as React components with Vite

See ya, 2022

My language brain is... broken?

Two(ish) months at Contenda

Passing Markdown components to React or Preact in Astro

Managing knowledge on a team

Hello, world

Saying goodbye to my crappy vision

Moose facts

How to break the cycle of tech debt

Customizing my Zsh Prompt

Renaming a folder on the GitHub website

Make line breaks work when you render text in a React or Vue component

Use Unicode characters for bullet points in CSS using ::marker

Being available: The secret to great leadership

The Productivity apps I use in 2022

Adding a lang attribute to your Next.js site

Do successful products prioritize familiarity over uniqueness?

Build wicked fast sites with Astro: An Introduction

React 18 Alpha is out! Now what?

Shallow Routing in Next.js

Pursuing Passive Learning

Making a virtual credits sequence for your video calls with OBS and CodePen

An Incredibly Serious Discussion about Next.js at Reactathon

Enabling AMP in your Next.js projects

Adding Babel presets and plugins in Next.js

React Children: The misunderstood prop

Query an API at both build time and runtime with Next.js

How to turn off telemetry in Next.js

Add Web Monetization to your sites with Snippet Injection

Logging in Next.js

Deploy from CodePen to Netlify in less than 30 seconds

React Strict Mode in Next.js

Environment variables in Next.js and Netlify

Global Styles in Next.js

Making a custom 404 page in Next.js

Absolute Imports in Next.js

Why you should code together: Mob Programming FAQs

Building a custom React media query hook for more responsive apps

"Escaping" Next.js to access the browser

What is React Fast Refresh?

Next.js: Should I use SSR or SSG?

Using React Context for state management in Next.js

Avoiding burnout as an ambitious developer

Apollo Mission - The Pros and Cons of Being an Early Adopter of New Technology

Follow your dreams (literally): How I designed and launched the Official Scrabble Keyboard

Building todometer: a meter-based to-do list

Building My S60-X Keyboard

L4 Digital: First Impressions

Writing Practice: The Agua Caliente Airport

Subconscious Learning

Pure CSS3 Text Carousel

Closures in JavaScript

Messing with Sketch Club

5 applications of linear regression that will drive him crazy

Adding Keyboard Shortcuts to your React Apps

Making the Whitney Houston API

Picking your brain: Cold call email etiquette

One year at Venmo

A Brief History of the PNG

The CSS Image Values Spec

Finding a Mentor

The positives coming from the negatives

A Weekend at BattleHack Boston

My last days at ISU

How to ask for help

10 Tips for Successful Public Speaking

The laptop you need for college

HackISU Hackathon!!

How to Ace an Interview

Things you should have on your LinkedIn profile

What is Computer Science ACTUALLY like?

Feedback is awesome

My Talk at TEDxDesMoines

My "romantic" Valentine's Day plans!

HTML+CSS Tutorial, Part 2

HTML+CSS Tutorial, Part 1

Here come the 2013 Mashups!

Inspirational quotes to get you through the day

I am better than you at everything

Things you should have on your LinkedIn profile

Finding your dream major in college

Crushing Procrastination in 3 Steps

Design Your First iPhone App

Tips for remembering names

5 Questions to Ask Your Boss

Networking as a college student

A Weekend at PennApps

Crushing the Impostor Syndrome

Startup Weekend Ames

Happy Pi Day!

I went to the White House!

What's a house that's white in Washington D.C.?

Grace Hopper in Baltimore!

Facebook's 2012 Summer of Hack

This is how a rock star feels

How my big bod broke a bus

I can't see!

System.out.print("My Major");

Just Dancing.

Boo yah.

The T in Often

Amazing and Free Software

The Wrist Keyboard

Hum de dum

Hello.