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 March 4, 2022

The Overflow #115: What engineering managers give up, an AI bot that can ace technical interviews, and a one-stop monorepo resource  

Welcome to ISSUE #115 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: what you give up when you move into management, an AI bot that’s better than you at answering technical interview questions, and resources to help with monorepos and functional programming.
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newsletter February 18, 2022

The Overflow #113: Top-paying tech jobs

Welcome to ISSUE #113 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: tech’s top-paying jobs, building a killer company brand, going from C-suite to IC, and that one developer who’s always doing Leetcode puzzles at work.
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newsletter January 21, 2022

The Overflow #109: Developers and the Great Resignation

Welcome to ISSUE #109 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: what the Great Resignation means for developers, the team helping underserved communities build their own LTE networks, and why Canon is telling customers how to defeat its DRM. From…
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newsletter January 14, 2022

The Overflow #108: Determining dependencies and phantom braking

Welcome to ISSUE #108 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: UX headaches, the clear downsides of phantom braking, and testing with real dependencies instead of mockup or fakes.  From the blog Favor real dependencies for unit testing stackoverflow.blogWhich dependencies should…
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newsletter December 24, 2021

The Overflow #105: An oral history of Stack Overflow

Welcome to ISSUE #105 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: Hat season on Stack Exchange, an oral history of Stack Overflow to mark our 400th (!) podcast episode, and how to build a high-velocity DevOps culture. From the blog…
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