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.
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All posts (315)
It’s Blogvent, day 21, where I blog daily in December! I saw a post on Mastodon recently: We need to normalize declaring software as finished. Not everything needs continuous updates to function. In fact, a minority of software needs this. Most software works as it is written. The code does not run out of date. I...
It’s Blogvent, day 20, where I blog daily in December! Last year, almost exactly a year ago today, I wrote that I was becoming a minor writing utensil snob. Unfortunately for my wallet, I don’t think I can call myself a minor snob anymore. I’m approaching the big leagues. I write daily in a physical leather journal...
It’s Blogvent, day 19, where I blog daily in December! If you’ve bounced around GitHub before, it’s likely you’ve seen a .github/ folder at the top-level of a repository. You might have even seen a .github repository in some organizations! This is incredibly hard to look up online, as you can imagine. It’s even...
It’s Blogvent, day 18, where I blog daily in December! This week was so busy that my brain has just slowed to a halt. Tons of work, babies not cooperating, travel, pre-holiday jitters, family moving… it’s been a lot. When I’m particularly stressed and feeling overwhelmed, I just want to clean. I want to organize...
It’s Blogvent, day 17, where I blog daily in December! These are a bunch of things I would genuinely love to study more deeply. Someday if I ever make it big, you’ll see me studying these. Anna Ancher’s art Irish history in general, particularly around the conflict of the 90s The history of how Mexico City came to...
It’s Blogvent, day 16, where I blog daily in December! It is hard coming up with blog topics. Especially when I’m trying to post every single day. I often just start writing, sometimes on my laptop, sometimes on my Micro Journal, and a topic will just… form. This post literally started as: I have no idea what to...
It’s Blogvent, day 15, where I blog daily in December! Leading a project without formal authority can be challenging. Having accountability on the success of a project without the authority to direct/prioritize its direction can be frustrating, but there’s some tools in your tool belt you can use to influence...
It’s Blogvent, day 14, where I blog daily in December! I’ve always liked taking photos of things, but since becoming a parent… I have thousands and thousands of pictures and videos of my children. I like looking at them, I like looking back at different milestones (especially with two babies now, it’s fun to see...
It’s Blogvent, day 13, where I blog daily in December! I don’t mean to make this a hardcore hot take, but… vibe coding is boring. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been trying it out, and it can be fairly effective. It’s innovative. I started my app PocketCal with AI and it worked pretty well, in addition to some personal...
It’s Blogvent, day 12, where I blog daily in December! I admit I’m not a huge podcast person. No, scratch that: I love listening to podcasts but I never have time to, and when I finally do, I think, “wow, I should be more of a podcast person,” and then I stop listening for weeks, and then binge many episodes over an...
It’s Blogvent, day 11, where I blog daily in December! I learned about The Abilene Paradox a while back from Ben Hong. Long story short, this is when a group of people ends up doing something that nobody actually wants to do because they are not good at talking about it. I feel like this happens a lot both on group...
It’s Blogvent, day 10, where I blog daily in December! I often get asked about food and things to do in Chicago! There’s sooo many stereotypical things to do and get, like the architectural boat tour and some deep dish pizza. And honestly, you could do well with that. But I have so many more food recs for you....
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