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Cassidy Williams
Personal blog · cassidoo.co/postprogrammingwebcareer
Cassidy Williams's personal blog at cassidoo.co covers programming, web and career. Since 2022, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 57 times, most often “A simple clustering algorithm for lists”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Cassidy Williams' blog in lists of favourite personal blogs and cite her micro-journal writerdeck post and her newsletter. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm Cassidy Williams, a software engineer, mom, and overall nerd in Chicago. I write about tech, projects, and whatever else I'm thinking about!
Most-linked posts?
- A simple clustering algorithm for lists4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-05-25
- Building the Micro Journal3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-30
- Do not give up your brain2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-17
- Making art with CSS gradients and corner-shape and skew2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-09
- Poops2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-23
What Hacker News says?
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on “Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?”Submitted A couple CSS tricks for HTML Dialog elements as a story · 163 points
HN discussionOh thank the stars! > Do note that I believe the current plan is to have two-way sync between files and the db, so presumably custom modification of md files should still work fine. But we'll see how that evolves. Perfect, fingers crossed. There was a submission Trying TinaCMS a couple months ago that mentioned what sounds similar & ideal to me, Keeping flat files as a source of truth then having a projection of tho…
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on “Logseq – adding settings for self-hosted sync”Submitted Haunted by my own projects as a story · 130 points
HN discussionI also made a writerdeck! They are the best: https://cassidoo.co/post/micro-journal/
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on “It's time to talk about my writerdeck”Submitted Questions to ask when you think need to finish something as a story · 106 points
HN discussionKind of a shameless plug for my newsletter, and also a nod in agreement. I love being able to share articles that I find interesting, share useful tidbits and stuff, and getting responses from folks who actually read it and want to talk more. I love the concept and hope more people do it! Mine is here: https://cassidoo.co/newsletter
Comment linking /newsletter
on “Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social networks”Submitted Getting paid is weird and sometimes hard as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibe Coding Is Boring as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted I (don't?) want to say yes to everything as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the Micro Journal as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Configure Your Repositories with .github as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye to an 11-year-old Issue as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A pretty good email scam as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Think Less, Ship More as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Use Obsidian Templater as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analog Girly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Traveling to Technical Events: A Guide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the Micro Journal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A simple clustering algorithm for lists as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted KeyCon 2026 Recap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shipping todometer, Version 3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A history of styling choices leading to native CSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making art with CSS gradients and corner-shape and skew as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A fun trick for getting discovered by LLMs and AI tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically mark pull requests and issues as stale with GitHub Actions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I am back at work and it feels weird as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Poops as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five years of tracking 2000 Poops with the Poop Map app as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tools Using Tools as a story · 2 points
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