Cassidy Williams

Hi there! My name is Cassidy and I'm a Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify and co-curator of The Overflow! I love building mechanical keyboards in my free time.
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newsletter June 4, 2021

The Overflow #76: The 2021 Dev Survey now open!

Welcome to ISSUE #76 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. The new Developer Survey is here! But also: precise measurements using imprecise tools and a visual walkthrough of Kubernetes. From the blog The 2021 Developer Survey is now open! stackoverflow.blogWe want to…
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newsletter May 28, 2021

The Overflow #75: Where design meets development

Welcome to ISSUE #75 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: Rebuilding static sites a little at a time, telling the difference between decompilers and disassemblers, and five tools to fix security holes. From the blog Incremental Static Regeneration: Building…
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Incremental Static Regeneration: Building static sites a little at a time

There are a lot of opinions out there about how to improve and scale sites “beyond the Jamstack” by adding in features that use a Node server in addition to the pre-built pages. One of those features is called Incremental Static Regeneration. Some people call it “hybrid web development” (or “hybrid serverless + static”) but let’s talk a bit more about what that means.
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Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, Co-curator of The Overflow
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newsletter May 14, 2021

The Overflow #73: Open source helicopters on Mars

Welcome to ISSUE #73 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: open source contributions take a helicopter to Mars, bug bounties cause real damage, and GitHub Actions give you a shortcut to continuous deployment. From the blog Find knowledge faster:…
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newsletter April 30, 2021

The Overflow #71: Copied and pasted

Welcome to ISSUE #71 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: we know what you copied and pasted last summer, checking out our biggest fans at rest, and the Clapper is back but in your browser this time. Introducing Stack Overflow for…
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newsletter April 9, 2021

The Overflow #68: Our first piece of hardware?

Welcome to ISSUE #68 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: we April fooled ‘em with custom hardware, can you use general relativity to lengthen your day, and a look at a refreshing new language for SPAs. From the blog…
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newsletter April 2, 2021

The Overflow #67: Forget Moore’s Law. Algorithms drive technology forward

Welcome to ISSUE #67 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: inertial navigation, new research from MIT on who’s building our algorithmic commons, plus a conversation with Slack about APIs and open-source. From the blog Forget Moore’s Law. Algorithms drive…
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