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A small set of projects, in various stages. Rendered as plainly as I can manage. Some of it is shipping, some of it is mid-build, all of it is real.
CDiT, short for Casey does IT, is the workshop side of Casey Romkes' practice. I take small briefs from people I'd already want to work with, build the smallest version that proves the idea, ship it when it can stand on its own, and stay close for as long as the people who use it need me to. Mostly Astro and TypeScript and the kind of patient infrastructure that ages well. Based in Brandenburg, Germany. One person. The why-half of all this lives next door at casey.berlin. Same person, different rooms.
A visual museum for family memories. Built so the photographs and the stories that wrap them stay together, across generations.
Twelve weeks from letter to live. Released to the family; one new room a month since.
The infrastructure layer of MCP has already won. The mass-market moment has not arrived. That gap is exactly where the cheap experiments live.
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github.com/CaseyRo/mcp-readwise Continue on casey.berlin →The gap between "I know exactly what this should do" and "I have working software that does it" has collapsed from months to days. You don't need to code. You need to specify.
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