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Phillip Beazley

beazley.org

The higher the mountain, the higher I climb.

Latest messages

  • Build Proofs: making the tool prove itself Building with AI · 8

    Four apps, four creation lanes, four stacks, built as public evidence, with every failure filed as a release bug. Then launch day, and three patches about someone else's machine.

  • A Builder, Not Just a Coder: Project Intake Building with AI · 6

    Teaching aidd to adopt codebases it didn't write, the guard hole dogfooding found within the hour, and the git reset that made isolation non-negotiable.

  • Three Wrappers Become One: the birth of aidd Building with AI · 2

    The automaker fork, three provider wrappers built on purpose before the abstraction, and the month the orchestrator went from idea to 441 commits in a day.

  • Building the Wrong Thing, On Purpose Building with AI · 1

    Fifteen months from a PowerShell personal site to a template running a six-app fleet, and the itch that's left over.

  • Moving Right Along

    For some time now, I’ve wanted to start my own business again. I remember really enjoying it the last time (you may remember that I previously started and ran a web hosting...

  • You're Not Wasting Your Time

    Sometimes when I'm working on things that I enjoy, yet have no obvious or immediate benefit, I have to convince myself repeatedly that I'm not wasting my time. I'll tell myself...

  • /2018

    Already time to wrap-up another year. In fact, I'm a little late. Seems to go by faster every time! It was another good year of positive moves and growth, but there always...

  • Text Outage

    So I finally realized I had an actual problem with my text messaging today. I was trying to login to something that uses SMS for 2FA and wasn't receiving it. I'd had this...

  • Fetching with Fifi

    I recently released a small search tool for PowerShell to the PowerShell Gallery called Find-InFiles (aka fifi ). It just needed a bit of polish and a couple of tweaks and it...

  • Water Testing

    One of my daughters and I conducted a mini experiment with the water (and other drinks) we had on hand using the TDS meter that came with a filter pitcher and thought I’d share...

  • Foreign Key Trust & Indexing

    Updated on 2018-09-09 to include table seek/scan stats and better fix code generation. Updated on 2018-07-10 for content related to not for replication and code updates....

  • PowerClip - the PowerShell clipboard recaller

    Saves all clipboard text, allows selection of previous clips and re-adding them to your clipboard. PowerClip consists of: powerclipd -- constantly running monitor executed on...

  • Clean Meat

    I've only come across this term recently, thanks to this "StarTalk" podcast episode , Paul Shapiro's new book Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize...

  • My Winding Road to Android

    I've been using Apple products in one form or another since the late 80s. My first experience hands-on experience was using a Macintosh II in 1988. First, a bit of history......

  • BTTF x 37

    During the summer of 1985, I watched Back to the Future 37 times. At the box office. It was completely unplanned at the time, but I like to think I helped keep it 1 at the box...

  • TL; DR: HNY

    So, 2017 was another year. Lots of changes were made. They were mostly little things here and there, but they all add up. I dropped many unnecessary expenses, including:...

  • We're Not The Choir

    You're preaching to the choir - your choir. No matter which side of the fence or county or aisle you're on, if you're preaching, you're preaching to those who already agree...

  • Parental Hypocrisy in Education

    We want better for our children. We go to extreme measures at times to do so. Why, then, are we so complacent about their education? In every other aspect, if we felt our lives...

  • Abe

    Abraham, or Abe as he preferred, ran downstairs as soon as he heard the mailman drop the day's batch through the creaky brass slot. The creak was plenty warning alone, but the...

  • Becoming Your Parent

    I write this to no one in particular. Perhaps just so I fully understand it myself I guess I have totally become my father I think when you know when I have room when I was...

  • On Skepticism

    I was taught from an early age to believe what was true yet be skeptical of everything. If it matters, research the source and question the facts. Belief to me was never...

  • My Oath

    "I, Phillip C. Beazley, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true...

  • Music Tastes

    So as far as music goes, I really love music that moves me, has a good feel to it. If I were a proper music nerd, I would be able to describe what I like more succinctly but I...

  • Sad Day

    Even when I'm not wanted, I can't let everyone down. [I go back and correct the mistakes I make purposefully. Sounds like an alegory for life. My life, anyway. I don't even...

  • League of Entrepreneurial Gentlemen

    I'm looking to form a small group of like-minded, technical and/or entrepreneurial folks for conceptualizing, discussing, and hopefully bringing to life ideas and products. I...

  • dbspace.sql

    (This is a test of embedded SQL snippets from Gist. But it's still a good little script.) Show space used by the current database (by file and aggregate)....

  • Apple Crumb Pie

    Apple Crumb Pie I started with other recipes but this one has been tuned and tailored for my personal tastes. IMHO, this is the best apple pie on the planet. YMMV. Serves 6....

  • xTLDs

    Despite the advancements of ICANN and the domain name registration system in general, I think they're continuing to pursue an outdated and inefficient model, although it...

  • Protests

    I really hate to admit it, but I don't have much faith in my generation or the one that came after. I see all the trouble in the world that should not be allowed to happen and...

  • Mania

    Edwin lived near the ocean all his adult life and most of his childhood. Until last Thursday it had never occurred to him that the warm, salty air affected him in any way. At...

  • Offline Mode Depression Syndrome

    My wife and I were discussing recently how going to work somewhere new affects us. She asked if I got nervous on the first day and what I worried about most. Meeting new...

  • Apple: Cutting-Edge and Ancient

    Apple. Gotta love ‘em. So ahead of their time (at times). So classy and refined. I love their gear. They’ve really got a knack for well designed gadgets. If there’s an Apple...

  • Sleeping With The Enemy

    At first glance you’d have to assume Dale Lamb is a superb and skilled carpenter, what with all the nails being hit on the head in his latest contribution – seeking truth in...

  • When Parents Fail

    I have two beautiful young daughters, 6 and 8. Unfortunately my time with them is not as abundant as I would like. I am the non-custodial parent of a divorce. In Texas this...

  • Generating SQL Agent Job Summaries

    I have a habit of not only categorizing my jobs meticulously, but also prefixing those that are of DBA use/interest only with “DBA: “. It keeps them visually grouped, for both...

  • Sound Effects

    As I was looking for some new sound effects for ringtones/text tones, I came across the website for Partners In Rhyme . They've got a pretty impressive array of effects, so...

  • Geek Onward

    I like to think of geeks as the modern day tinker. Inquisitive, resourceful, never leaving well enough alone, driven by the urge to make things better. What is great about...

  • Geek Pride

    I'm definitely a geek. I've been one since elementary school. Not sure how it happened, but I blame it partly on the movie " Wargames ." Starting with various computer systems...

  • Must-have iPhone Apps

    Over the past several months, I've played around with hundreds of apps for every imaginable purpose. Most were either shortly forgotten or removed, but here are the ones that...

  • Jailbreaking the iPhone

    Here's my experience with jailbreaking the iPhone. This summarizes about six months of usage and includes many bits and pieces that I wish I had known or been able to find in...

  • WinterBoard slowing me down?

    A few weeks ago my phone started feeling slow. I began noticing lags in just about everything and it was getting on my nerves! It began after going to 3.0 but I can't recall...

  • Handling Sorts with Nulls

    If you want to sort on a field that may contain NULLs and do not want them to be placed at the beginning, use one of the following methods to ensure NULLs are stuck at the...

  • Using Aliases for Services

    What are they? An alias is simply a placeholder name for a specific service that points to the actual resource on the back-end. The end-user or client will see only the alias,...

  • Temp Tables and Table Variables

    Quick Comparison Temp Tables Table Variables I/O High N/A to Low Indexing Explicit Allowed Explicit Not Allowed Constraints Allowed Allowed Declaration Explicit/Implicit...

  • Don't Do This in SQL

    Seriously. At least have a very good reason (if one exists) if you're going to do something on this list. And yes, I'm well aware that you may disagree with some points. If so,...

  • Abolishing the Current Tax Code

    The United States Tax Code is one of the largest collections of procedural and legal documents under one name. It contains almost 380 times as many words as the U.S....

Projects

  • aidd github

    ★ 3

    Local-first mission control for supervising AI coding agents across CLI backends.

    • TypeScript
    • Bun
    • agents
    • claude-code
    • kilocode
    • opencode
    • orchestration

  • spernakit

    ★ 1

    Self-hosted full-stack application template — Bun, Elysia, React, Drizzle, TanStack Query, shadcn/ui. MIT.

    • TypeScript
    • Bun
    • Elysia
    • React
    • Drizzle
    • shadcn/ui
    • SQLite
    • Vite
    • template

  • htmx-debugger

    ★ 144

    Browser extension (Chrome and Firefox) debugging tool for htmx applications.

    • JavaScript
    • Chrome
    • Firefox
    • htmx
    • devtools

  • Podex

    ★ 5

    PowerShell/Pode + htmx framework for building web applications.

    • PowerShell
    • Pode
    • htmx
    • hypermedia

  • AgentWatch

    ★ 1

    Are your agents safe? Audits what AI agents can reach: endpoints, permissions, credential paths, dynamic tools.

    • TypeScript
    • ai
    • audit
    • cli
    • mcp
    • security