Cassidy Williams

We met with Cassidy at the Merge Festival in Berlin and talked about the state of the web and how to get hired in tech.

I was the host of the Dev & Code Track at Figma Config! In this track, we spoke with and learned from developers building tools for designers, working with designers, and building experiences for users that delight and awe.

Jumblie is a word search game built by Cassidy Williams with new words and themes daily, similar to the famous Wordle.

Cassidy wrote the conclusion for the results of the much-anticipated State of JS 2023 survey!

In this conversation, Eve Porcello interviews Cassidy Williams, a software engineer, developer advocate, tech executive and advisor, teacher, live streamer, and podcaster. Cassidy discusses her work on Brainstory, an app that helps users talk out their ideas. She also talks about her workshop series, Process Over Goals, which focuses on developing effective workflows. Cassidy shares her experience creating a newsletter and the importance of speaking up for oneself. She also emphasizes the value of negotiation in various aspects of life. In this conversation, Cassidy and Eve discuss the importance of negotiation and the need for open discussions about money. They also talk about the challenges in understanding React and the importance of communication in the React community. Cassidy also shares the story behind the creation of the Jumblie game and her future plans for it.

Mozilla talks with people about the online spaces they can’t get enough of, the sites and forums that shaped them, and what reclaiming the internet really looks like. This is the story of cassidoo!

May is Maintainer Month, and this year's theme is the joys of open source maintenance. Being a maintainer is hard work, but there’s also joy in the experience, which is sometimes easy to lose sight of. Creating things, putting them out into the world, and seeing other people use and contribute back to them is exhilarating, especially when you’re first starting out. So how do you hold on to the joy over the course of months or years?

I updated my software project, W-9 Crafter! More on it here: https://cassidoo.co/post/w9-crafter/