Casey writes.

This is the writing of Casey Romkes, an independent technologist in Brandenburg, near Berlin: a growing archive of essays, reflections, and field notes on AI adoption, technology, leadership, and the craft of building. Pieces run in English, with a few in Dutch and German, and include the recurring newsletter The Brief Pause. They are set chronologically, with no algorithm deciding what you see.

Casey writes.

Recent writings

Fourteen MCP servers to FastMCP 4 in two days

Hyves is back (or: the company that shut it down is running it)

The plus (or: the one thing on the feed that asks to be touched)

The Iron Triangle, One Year On

Latest notes, dispatches, and quick writes

From "wouldn't F1 be fun?" to a buildable change

The Spike (or: the framework that wanted 700 megabytes)

Earlier Issues

Ten Months In (or: the part where there’s still no code)

Five thousand mockups and no way to search them

#42

Of Pets and Cattle

We built the agent, then we deleted it

Moving data you can't afford to lose

The Quiet Press: a newspaper that turns itself off

Draining a server with the lights on

Twelve Servers, One Afternoon

Tuesday Afternoon

The little door: 48 hours from hunch to heartbeat

Blueprint: Migrating a 70-Device Zigbee Network to a New Coordinator Stack — Without Re-Pairing

From "anything we can use?" to v1.0.0 in a day

The Thing That Wasn't Supposed to Move Me

Your data is the asset. The agent is the excuse.

The Exoskeleton Doesn't Rest

Taste is the scarce resource now

The Flutter Decision (or: how I picked the worst of three)

The graveyard is the point

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