Follow your dreams (literally): How I designed and launched the Official Scrabble Keyboard
Creator launches passion project: an Official Scrabble-themed keyboard brought to life from a personal dream.
CTO at Contenda. Previously at Netlify, CodePen, and Amazon. Known for tech humor and newsletters.
https://cassidoo.coCreator launches passion project: an Official Scrabble-themed keyboard brought to life from a personal dream.
Released a new to-do list app called todometer, built with Electron, React, and Redux.
Built my first mechanical keyboard (S60-X) after lots of trial and error!
New employee shares their first week experience at L4 Digital.
Author completed a writing exercise based on a random Wikipedia page about Agua Caliente Airport, incorporating puns into the piece.
Explores findings on subconscious learning - how we absorb information without conscious awareness.
Created a custom CSS-only text carousel from scratch. Includes implementation details and future improvements.
Blog post explains closures in JavaScript, an essential concept for all JavaScript developers to understand.
Got Sketch Club app and enjoying creating fun drawings with it.
Blog post promises 5 linear regression applications with clickbait-style romantic language, but provides no actual content or examples.
Use the Mousetrap library to add keyboard shortcuts to React apps.
Created a Whitney Houston API just for fun.
Author receives many "pick your brain" requests and shares preferred etiquette for cold call emails asking for advice or expertise.
Celebrating one year working at Venmo.
PNG format has a shorter history than commonly assumed.
The CSS Image Values Spec enables clean scaling of pixel art on websites.
Mentorship often develops naturally rather than through formal arrangements.
Online negativity can be transformed into positive outcomes when we work together.
Attended first hackathon as Venmo employee and had a great experience at BattleHack Boston.
Leaving Iowa State soon—bittersweet mix of sadness and excitement about what's next.