Cassidy Williams

I spoke (a lot) at Microsoft Build in San Francisco!

I nerd-sniped myself deeply when sorting baby toys and came up with a fun pattern for doing so!

I visited a decades-old Go club in Barcelona!

I updated my app todometer after several years of it lying dormant, and it's better than ever!

I spoke at Codemotion Madrid and had a blast!

I used the GitHub Copilot CLI to generate some scripts for me to control Elgato Lights with the Logitech MX Creative Console!

I spoke at Deep Dish Swift in Chicago!

I spoke in Seoul, South Korea to an incredibly bright group of participants!

My sweater is weird but it is special and important to me.

I love my single-purpose devices, and I got another one for distraction-free writing called the BYOK!

How I switched from Less to Sass to CSS Modules to PostCSS nested and nesting to finally, at last, using pure CSS.

I had to set up my Sony a6400 fresh, and here's all the settings I used!

I combined some fun CSS techniques to make a little diving board drawing!

If you're not sure about the ins and outs of passkeys, here's a little primer.

Catch me on YouTube and Twitch, y'all.

Turns out just asking for help gets you help? Who knew? Here's how I increased my newsletter open rate.

You can make cool beveled, rounded, notched, scooped, and elliptical borders with the new CSS corner-shape property!

Context switching between terminals can be a mental lift, and this function to add touch to PowerShell has helped me a bunch!

After learning that people were finding my content via LLMs, I tried using said LLMs to make them find me even more often!

I made a game called Code Wave for the GitHub Game Off 2025, here's how I did it!

I've always loved Cassatt's art, but it hits differently now that I have kids of my own.

It's tempting to just let tools think for you, but you still need to be able to think for yourself and stay sharp.

I spoke with students at Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College about tech careers, AI, and networking.

2025 is over! Let's recap.

Don't be sad that Blogvent is over, be happy that Blogvent happened. Here's all the posts I wrote in December 2025!

The creation of an unflinching look at the survival period of "working" during the holidays.

When you generate an HTML blockquote from markdown, your resulting HTML needs some styling love.

Sometimes the software we see out there doesn't need to be further updated. Sometimes it's just good enough!

I really like nice pencils and pens and it's not a problem, I am totally in control? But I probably have too many now.

The .github folder (and .github repository) is special for customizing your projects to your liking. Here's what you can do!

My chores and tasks are piling up... and so are my emails.

There's so much I want to learn and so little time in the day!

Here's a few questions I ask myself before I start blogging.

You can be a leader without a fancy title... and hopefully that gets you the fancy title eventually!

I'm backing up my photos and videos with Ente now, and it's pretty good.

Vibe coding gets the job done, but there's no thrill in the build.

I don't listen to many podcasts, but the ones I do are pretty solid!

What happens when you compromise too much?

If you wanna eat more than a hot dog and deep dish pizza when you visit Chicago, I got you!

When your CSS animations need a break, you can work with the output of the getAnimations() method!

I made a simple case for an e-reader as my first sewing project in a long time!