Casey(also: Kees.)

Now.

What I would tell a friend I had not seen in a year. A new frame lands roughly monthly; the older ones stay below, exactly as they were.

a frame from 13 September 2026, 20:08:43 (+02:00)

A big part of my attention right now is my two weeks off. After years, it feels like my first two weeks off without any doubts or concerns. We also bought a caravan, a long-standing wish. Exciting! And that means we're prepping for our first workation, early October.

reading:
Das Kind in mir will achtsam morden, the second Achtsam morden book by Karsten Dusse. A bit less interesting than the first, but that could also be my extreme tiredness.
listening:
binary_boy, Editors, Cameron Whitcomb, Cassia and Fastball, most played this week; the shuffle ran from Propaganda to Malcolm Todd. (last.fm, since 2007.)
proud of:
the amazing work done with StoryKeep, how the new version of wattedoeninberlijn.nl is coming along, and my chosen family: the wife, the dogs, the cats. It's a busy household, but I'm enjoying it.
chafing at:
that I totally “forgot” to consider my personal health. You can see it in how many days I've worked ten hours these last weeks. It's kind of scary. I enjoyed CrossFit so much, but I'm cancelling it now to save money. Bad choices, perhaps.
body:
two weeks of walks only, with the dogs setting the pace. Running picks up again at the end of September, strength in October.

Out in the open this month:

ha_bosch, 1.5.0 with thermostat-valve entities and appliance status, 1.5.2 so diagnostics stop leaking the appliance serial, and a 1.6.0 beta with multi-zone Boost and faster startup, with outside contributors on both lines.

Nah, started a private social network built out of circles capped at Dunbar's number. So far there's a spike measuring four runtimes, the storage decision, and the first decision records for a small server of our own.

keychron-q11, host-side control for the Q11 Ultra on macOS. The router follows the receiver instead of the clock, and the wireless polling rate sits in the menubar.

mcp-siyuan, fixed a real bug. Headings nested under one H1 were invisible to section writes, 4,093 of 5,233 across the fleet. Both tools now refuse an ambiguous heading instead of guessing.

mcp-mockuuups, a new MCP server for Mockuuups Studio, from first commit on 25 August to v0.1.6.

Nothing gets built before it is written down. The machines build after the thinking rather than instead of it: they read, they draft, they propose; I decide and I send. For the record, this month that means:

model    claude opus 5 daily, fable 5.1 and
         sonnet 5 alongside
harness  claude code, in terminal, browser and cloud
mcp      17 servers of my own behind one portal,
         a dozen connectors, six local tools
habits   specs before code, agents for research,
         a server that remembers my mistakes
A wooden kitchen table in morning light: a closed laptop and a coffee cup on the near side, an open paper calendar and an empty chair on the far side, where the light falls.A pencil triangle on graph paper with one corner rubbed out, eraser crumbs where it was, the eraser resting beside the sheet.
the machines also drew: gpt-image-2, both of these, this month.

a frame from 17 August 2026, 17:49:56 (+02:00)

Summer in Brandenburg. I am 43 now, and typing this on a new Keychron Q11 Ultra, brown switches instead of red, which turns out to be exactly the kind of small pleasure worth paying attention to.

The mornings belong to the dogs. Fimme is eight months old already. We are making new friends out here, which at this age is its own quiet skill.

Work is two weathers at once: stressful stretches at Yorizon, and genuinely creative problems at StoryKeep. Around the edges, the things I keep circling back to: the AI world moving under my feet, home assistant automations, and a renewed appetite for open source.

reading:
Achtsam morden, by Karsten Dusse.
listening:
Philine, Beck, Bowie, Gorillaz and Jordan Rakei, most played this week; the shuffle runs from Curtis Mayfield to Chappell Roan without asking. (last.fm, since 2007.)
proud of:
having a setup that runs, at home and at work, and that I enjoy tinkering with. It simply works again, instead of being one more todo list.
chafing at:
context switching. So many moving parts, so many topics that want attention, that it tips into overwhelming. The AI is starting to become one of them.
body:
getting back into training after being out since the first of June. CrossFit gave me the challenge and the injuries in equal measure; maybe Hyrox next, now that I have found somewhere close enough that I am not spending three hours in the car for forty-five minutes of work.

Out in the open this month:

mcp-readwise, stopped it dragging ten thousand feed items into every reading query. Seven minutes down to two seconds.

ha_bosch, opened the 1.4.0 line on the heat pump integration: optional entity discovery, appliance status, zone program selects, and one docs correction that admits an endpoint being present is not the same as it being available.

The machines carry more of my day than ever: they research before I decide, hold the specs while I build, and keep the books tidy. I mostly talk; they mostly type. For the record, this month that means:

model    claude fable 5 daily, haiku 4.5 for small jobs
harness  claude code, in terminal, browser and cloud
mcp      14 servers of my own behind one portal,
         a dozen connectors, four local tools
habits   specs before code, agents for research,
         a server that remembers my mistakes
Watercolor of two weathered folding chairs and a round garden table in tall grass, under a tree at the edge of a field.A stack of three linen-bound notebooks on a worn wooden table beside a stoneware cup of coffee, small steel scissors and a sprig of eucalyptus, lit from a window.
the machines also drew: gpt-image-2, both of these, this month.

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