Cassidy Williams: Career, Productivity, Community, and more

How do you build lightning-fast websites with Astro and React?
In this episode, Nikolay teams up with Cassidy Williams, a developer advocate and educator with a flair for making complex concepts fun and accessible. Watch as Cassidy attempts to build an Astro website in 60 seconds, integrates React for interactivity, and shares tips on optimizing performance. Along the way, she shares her favorite productivity tools, discusses the power of community, and offers invaluable career advice for developers.
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CONNECT WITH CASSIDY WILLIAMS
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✅ WEBSITE: https://cassidoo.co/
👨‍💻 GITHUB: https://github.com/cassidoo
🔎 BLOG: https://cassidoo.co/blog/
🔎 GETTING PAID IS WEIRD:https://cassidoo.co/post/getting-paid...
🔎CASSIDY’S PRODCUTIVITY TOOLShttps://cassidoo.co/post/producivity-...
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📚 Books
✅ The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing - https://amzn.to/3H5eR71
✅ Clean Code by Robert Martin: https://amzn.to/3Eg3E2B
✅ Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design by Robert Martin - https://amzn.to/3KgVoU4
✅ Hands-on Mobile App testing - https://amzn.to/3WKB14k
✅ Explore it! by Elisabeth Hendrickson - https://amzn.to/3lycK4j
✅ Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations - https://amzn.to/3HuPpsJ
✅ Hands-On Selenium WebDriver with Java: A Deep Dive into the Development of End-to-End Tests: https://amzn.to/421y5TB
✅ Mastering Software Testing with JUnit 5: Comprehensive guide to develop high-quality Java applications: https://amzn.to/3oNEDXE

🔎 Blogs
✅ Page Factory Deprecated: https://ultimateqa.com/selenium-3-11-...
✅ Page Factory by Titus Fortner: https://titusfortner.com/2021/02/03/p...
✅ Websites to practice test automation: https://snip.ly/rnapio
✅ Books to learn test automation: https://snip.ly/d9c4np

👩‍🏫Courses
React Testing Library course: https://egghead.io/courses/an-introdu...

📊 Code
✅ Contact list app - https://thinking-tester-contact-list....
✅ Dummy Automation Site:https://bonigarcia.dev/selenium-webdr...
✅ Selenium WebDriver Repo: https://github.com/bonigarcia/seleniu...

(00:00) Intro
(01:14) Build an Astro website in 60 seconds
(03:27) What is Astro all about?
(05:56) Adding React to an Astro website
(09:22) Client-Only and Client-Visible Components
(10:12 ) Biggest fear as a developer
(12:11) Top three career tips for Developers
(17:03) Finding and building a supportive community
(20:04) Making money in Tech is weird
(27:53) Cassidy’s Purpose and content
(32:00) The human touch in content creation
(34:47) Discord and community engagement
(40:29) Productivity tools and practices
(45:16) Advice for aspiring developers
(46:48) Cassidy's word game: Jumbli
(47:42) What's next for Cassidy