Cassidy Williams

This blog is different now!

I spoke at Front-end Design Conference this past week, and it was a wonderful time!

From the end of 2016 through the first half of 2020, I lived in Seattle.

Now that I’m a bit more out of the “brand new parent” phase, I’ve been thinking about gifts people got me after giving birth (AKA “push presents”), and things I give new parents now.

I first discovered the author Brandon Sanderson when he launched a Kickstarter in the pandemic, where he announced that he wrote 4 books.

Helllloooo!

In JavaScript, you can’t do some kind of query selector like: document.querySelector("div::after"); But, with the power of CSS variables, you can still change the styles of those selectors with JavaScript!

If you haven’t played Jumblie yet, you should!

I took a workshop that the LinkedIn team had about the best kinds of posts on the platform, so you don’t have to!

I built a browser extension this week, and had to do a bit of digging to figure out how to test it properly on Chrome and Edge before publishing it.

Normally when you run git branch on a repository, you get your list of branches in alphabetical order, which can be very annoying if you have a lot of them (unless you have a very rigid naming system by ticket number or something).

If you’ve ever wanted to style HTML <input> tags in your projects, you know it’s a bit tricky to deal with the labels and making everything look custom and themed.

This is a super specific use case, but if you have an HTML element and you want it to be more “self-aware”, you can do: let element = document.getElementById('whatever'); // To get an array of siblings [...element.parentElement.children] // To get curre…

If you don’t want to deal with styling a mostly text-based HTML document, plop these lines in and it’ll look good: html { font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; max-width: 40rem; padding: 2rem; margin:…

I’m kind of annoyed at the state of React lately.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept.

I am really, really excited to have made it to… drum roll… Jumblie #100 🟠🔴🟢🔵 4 guesses in 40s That’s right, it’s the 100th Jumblie puzzle!

I tried out the ElevenLabs beta in February last year, and I finally uploaded the audio of my little test!

Y’all, why is there a Scooby Doo character named Cassidy Williams?

As the great philosophers of Smash Mouth once said, “well, the years start comin and they don’t stop comin,” and 2023 was one of those years.

I got some good questions on my livestream earlier this year about stock options for startups!

I like using Obsidian for almost everything writing-wise.

My husband Joe is really into fishing.

I said no to something today.

Sometimes when you write markdown, you’ll write some paragraph… and then you hit “Enter” twice to make another paragraph.

I’ve bookmarked various things over the past year or so of things I would get for friends, family, and myself, and I thought I’d share ’em with ya after seeing Chris Coyier’s very cool guide!

I built a word game called Jumblie that I’m very excited about, and I’m gonna tell you how I did it!

In case you missed it, the CSS :has() selector is now supported in all major browsers!

I just finished my first in-person go tournament!

One of the things that bugged me since starting using TinaCMS was that the bot for the CMS did the GitHub commit for me, and I didn’t get that juicy green square on my profile when I blogged.

Whenever you want to render a list of something in React, you need to add a key attribute to it.

I built a game that I call Thirteen Potions, and I’m gonna tell you how and why I did it!

Helllloooo so it’s been a minute!

Astro is a web framework that I like for a lot of reasons, but in particular I like that it runs as little JavaScript as possible (at runtime) by default.

Sometimes when I’m pair programming (or if someone’s been just super helpful to me), I want to be able to give another developer credit in a commit I make in a Git repo.

My blog, our website at work, and Share Pear are all built with Astro!

I normally don’t watch a ton of TV, but on my maternity leave while holding/playing with/changing/carrying my baby I had a lot of things on the big screen to occupy my brain as my hands were full!

Hey Cassidy of 2 months ago, Baby Nadia is 2.5 months old now and is the best.

Seeing Google kill off and sell Google Domains is such a big surprise to me.

Recently as I was working on some styles for my blog, I ran into an issue where I had a block of anchor tags rendered in JSX, and they didn’t look right.

Having a baby really has changed my brain more than I ever expected it to.

I had a baby a couple weeks ago!

I recently had to build an Astro website on Netlify in which we needed custom headers.

I often get asked what my favorite tools are and how I use them to get my work done, and I’m writing this both to answer that question, and also for me to just paste a link to this post next time I’m asked.

When I was young, my parents gave me a poster I put on my wall of a bunch of different inspirational quotes from various people.

I really like stickers, and one of my favorite artists, Pikarar, makes cute ones.

useEffect is one of those React/Preact hooks that most people have a love/hate relationship with, but like it or not, it’s good to understand how it works.

There’s some things that you really only appreciate when you live in a place for a long amount of time, things that are sort of a… weird constant outside of your house.

I struggled recently setting up Netlify Redirects with Astro, until I realized I needed to copy the file from the root of my directory to the built output.

My GitHub streak right now (January 27, 2023) is like, really good.