Workshop · On the bench

On the bench.

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. The kind of patient infrastructure that ages well, in whatever tools the job actually calls for. Based in Brandenburg, Germany. One person. The why-half of all this lives next door at casey.berlin. Same person, different rooms.

Featured workLive · 2026

Knowledge Unitmozilla-ai/cq

ku_7c1f96 · confidence 0.50 · severity high

problemThe CSS `animation` shorthand with an `auto` duration is mangled by Vite's CSS minifier: the built page computes animation-name: none and the scroll animation silently never runs.

actionDeclare animation-name, animation-timing-function, animation-fill-mode and animation-timeline as separate longhand properties, never the shorthand.

Stolperfalle

The memory AI agents don't have: what one session learns, the next one no longer forgets. An open standard, built on Mozilla AI's open schema. Knowledge back into the commons, not into closed silos.

Klosterdorf.de

A static village page turned into a living village square. Ideas, nudges, and structure so the village shows up online the way it does over the garden fence.

What I stand for

An enthusiastic, creative technical designer with a great social touch — and a great community builder.”

Eric Voigt, Senior Lecturer and Coördinator Future Design Factory, on our work together in 2008 · My lifelong inspiration, mentor and Staby-fluencer.

Based: Oberbarnim, Brandenburg. Thirteen years in Germany.
Stations: Yorizon, Product Owner for the European sovereign cloud.StoryKeep, engineering partner: prototype to production platform.

Notes

WORKBENCH2026-06-17EN
Moving data you can't afford to lose
The boring disciplines behind a data migration you can actually prove: irreplaceability order, checksum gates, offsite-restore tests, uid preservation, and verifying by function.
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WORKBENCH2026-06-13EN
The Quiet Press: a newspaper that turns itself off
A Raspberry Pi, an e-paper panel, and a battery that lasts because the device spends almost all its life switched off. The architecture, the design, and what the schedule taught me.
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WORKBENCH2026-06-12EN
Draining a server with the lights on
Retiring a flaky, load-bearing box in an afternoon: DNS, public ingress, home automations and all, with nobody noticing.
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On the bench.

Stolperfalle

Klosterdorf.de

Moving data you can't afford to lose

The Quiet Press: a newspaper that turns itself off

Draining a server with the lights on