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.

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Recent writings

The year so far

Putting down the shield I'd carried most of my life, and looking at a village, a country and a collective that's cracking. And at where I hide from it.

Who teaches the Jedi now?

Fourteen MCP servers to FastMCP 4 in two days

Latest notes, dispatches, and quick writes

Earlier Issues

Techfeed

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

Reflection

The Iron Triangle, One Year On

Techfeed

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

Techfeed

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

Workbench

Five thousand mockups and no way to search them

Reflection

#42

Reflection

Of Pets and Cattle

Techfeed

We built the agent, then we deleted it

Workbench

Moving data you can't afford to lose

Workbench

The Quiet Press: a newspaper that turns itself off

Workbench

Draining a server with the lights on

Reflection

Tuesday Afternoon

Workbench

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

Note

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

Reflection

The Thing That Wasn't Supposed to Move Me

Blogpost

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

Techfeed

Taste is the scarce resource now

Techfeed

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

Blogpost

The graveyard is the point

Workbench

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