Casey Chow | Posts

Cities and Ambition (2008)

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:23:43 GMT

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the relationship between my environment and my personal growth lately. Small ways, like how people perceive your choice of city–a founder t

Windsurf gets raided by Google

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 23:58:24 GMT

From TechCrunch:

In a shocking twist, Google DeepMind is now hiring Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co founder Douglas Chen, and some of the startup’s top research

Despite the proliferation of AI agents in B2B, it’s still very difficult to a...

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 03:15:54 GMT

Despite the proliferation of AI agents in B2B, it’s still very difficult to actually make or use them as a consumer. I don’t really want to use MCP locally to power all of this, so

Warp is now an "Agentic Development Environment"

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:03:46 GMT

If you don’t know Warp, it’s a pretty nice terminal app that I’ve been using for a number of years; I mostly use it because it lets me copy entire command responses and other qu

Biome v2 now lints types

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:47:49 GMT

This is now a real alternative to eslint.

Underusing Snapshot Testing

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 04:35:12 GMT

I'm a huge fan of snapshot testing, especially in JavaScript/TypeScript where types often lie, ane especially in backend. This article was a good reminder to me why I think it's su

Bulk suppressions, native in eslint

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

At Pallet I found these to be an essential part of allowing our eslint rules to change. Essentially bulk suppressions allow you to keep a file tracking everywhere the code violates

Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A2A is an open protocol that [...] empowers developers to build agents capable of connecting with any other agent built using the protocol and offers users the flexibility to combi

The Region-Beta Paradox

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

You've probably seen this phenomenon before, where it's easier to cope with a subpar situation rather than fix it or pick an alternative? Region beta paradox. I wish there was a be

Screen Capture Nag Remover

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

This has been bothering me because I use Bartender pretty heavily. If you've ever been bothered by prompts that "X app is accesisng your screen" in Sonoma, this should work. A smal

To Help Others Go Further

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Brendan is an old friend from my time at Backbone, and someone I really admire for the journey he's taken through both design and engineering. So when I saw he posted a personal ma

Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Instead of simply blocking bots, Cloudflare's new system lures them into a "maze" of realistic looking but irrelevant pages, wasting the crawler's computing resources. The approach

Cloudflare Workflows

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

If you know trigger.dev, this is essentially Cloudflare's version of Trigger, a technology I haven't personally used but really want to. These two products are runtimes similar to

typia

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I've seen a lot of traction from this library lately, and compared to the juggernauts like zod, it leverages some of the newer technologies available to the ecosystem: Zod would in

A 10x Faster TypeScript

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I'll cut to the chase here: To meet those goals, we’ve begun work on a native port of the TypeScript compiler and tools. The native implementation will drastically improve editor s

Wisp

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I'm still looking for a practical Gleam based web framework to play around with, and it feels like Wisp is the most interesting one so far (made by the Gleam creator). Why Gleam, o

Bento, Snap's ML Platform

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I got to listen to a (fanstastic, by the way) talk outlining this platform a couple days ago at a meetup. What struck me about the way Snap described their models is the sheer size

Remeda

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 05:47:39 GMT

If you're greenfielding a JavaScript application, I can't recommend enough starting with Remeda. The main reason here is that unlike lodash, Remeda is composable and functional, bu

obsidian-omnisearch

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:27:00 GMT

Omnisearch is a search engine that "just works". It always instantly shows you the most relevant results, thanks to its smart weighting algorithm. I've been taking more notes latel

Egoless Engineering

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:26:00 GMT

Perfectly reasonable people thought that maybe we should put more of a wall between designers and the css source code. [...] But instead a miracle happened. There was an inspired p

Gleam, coming from Erlang

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Most of my professional experience has been in Node, but it's clear to me that despite working fantastically in practice, there's so many limits to the event loop that make it real

A Mostly Sane Guide to Root Cause Analysis

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

It finally happened. A Friday afternoon not long before a huge launch, somebody deployed a last minute change that crashed the database, and you were on call. It took a harrowing t