I'm starting to get absolutely tired of the "we reached $$$ in ARR faster than anyone in the world" type of posts.
They increasingly feel manufactured to the point of made up. Somehow it's always a bunch of other company logos that are below, and the company posting as #1
This one was new to me: this scammer sent me a “fake” iMessage, trying to hide the fact that it’s an SMS.
Cities and Ambition (2008)
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 told me they think of New York as a ... https://casey.so/2025/08/02/cities-and-ambition-ive-been/
Windsurf gets raided by Google
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 researchers. A Google spokesperson confirmed the hiring... https://casey.so/2025/07/13/windsurf-gets-raided-by-google/
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 I’ve just been throwing relay.app at everything to do structured research and interpretation.
I like Warp, but I'm kinda skeptical of the "2.0" marketing. https://casey.so/2025/07/01/warp-is-now-an-agentic/
Some good points here about the vulnerabilities in Substack’s business model, but also how the pressure to be a platform conflicts with what is actually good for the writers it attracted. Reminds me a lot of Patreon in that way.
Underusing Snapshot Testing
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 such a powerful tool in the arsenal.
A Mostly Sane Guide to Root Cause Analysis: https://caseychow.micro.blog/2025/02/22/a-mostly-sane-guide-to.html
Biome v2 beta release is now available!
🛠️ Plugins: create custom lint rules with GritQL
🔀 Multi-file analysis
📝 Revamped, configurable import sorting
🧐 Linter domains
🙅♀️ New suppressions
👩✈️ Analyzer assist
..and more!!
biomejs.dev/blog/biome-v...
Sorry if this sounds like complaining but I really don't know what's going on here.
I am just as frustrated as you are. But the only solution to getting people to understand what's involved is to tell people what's involved.
And I guarantee you many apartment managers legitimately don't know.
You can now try fragment arguments in graphql-js 🚀
One visit to the UK 10 years ago and my Google Maps price ranges are still in GBP.
I got fed up of posting the same comment every time the topic of LLM hallucinations in code comes up (short version: they don't matter because you'll spot them the second you try to run the code) - so I've turned that comment into a longer form blog post simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/h...
