https://beazley.org Phillip Beazley - notes and essays. https://beazley.org/2026/07/05/ https://beazley.org/2026/07/05/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://beazley.org/2026/07/02/ https://beazley.org/2026/07/02/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Retiring the commercial plan, choosing MIT for the template and FSL for the engine, scrubbing two years of private history, and the afternoon a clean VM found four bugs dogfooding couldn't. https://beazley.org/2026/06/28/ https://beazley.org/2026/06/28/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://beazley.org/2026/06/09/ https://beazley.org/2026/06/09/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Sealing the template to free the tool, rebuilding aidd as v2, teaching it to supervise itself, and a long-overdue reckoning with Windows process semantics. https://beazley.org/2026/05/01/ https://beazley.org/2026/05/01/ Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT The ecosystem pipeline, the day I deleted my own automation, a 42% false-positive rate, and why 'it compiles' is not a quality gate. https://beazley.org/2026/03/01/ https://beazley.org/2026/03/01/ Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT Spernakit v2 rewritten in six days, ten audit passes in ten more, and the deliberate regression that separated real numbers from high numbers. https://beazley.org/2026/02/01/ https://beazley.org/2026/02/01/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://beazley.org/2025/11/30/ https://beazley.org/2025/11/30/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT Fifteen months from a PowerShell personal site to a template running a six-app fleet, and the itch that's left over. https://beazley.org/2019/01/15/ https://beazley.org/2019/01/15/ Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2019/01/14/ https://beazley.org/2019/01/14/ Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2019/01/13/ https://beazley.org/2019/01/13/ Sun, 13 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2019/01/06/ https://beazley.org/2019/01/06/ Sun, 06 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2018/09/16/ https://beazley.org/2018/09/16/ Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2018/09/16/1761/ https://beazley.org/2018/09/16/1761/ Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2018/09/09/ https://beazley.org/2018/09/09/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 12:00:00 GMT 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.... https://beazley.org/2018/07/04/ https://beazley.org/2018/07/04/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2018/06/18/ https://beazley.org/2018/06/18/ Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2018/06/11/ https://beazley.org/2018/06/11/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:00:00 GMT 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...... https://beazley.org/2018/06/04/ https://beazley.org/2018/06/04/ Mon, 04 Jun 2018 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2018/01/01/ https://beazley.org/2018/01/01/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT 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:... https://beazley.org/2017/08/14/ https://beazley.org/2017/08/14/ Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2017/06/17/ https://beazley.org/2017/06/17/ Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2017/06/07/ https://beazley.org/2017/06/07/ Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2017/05/10/ https://beazley.org/2017/05/10/ Wed, 10 May 2017 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2017/02/20/ https://beazley.org/2017/02/20/ Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2017/01/03/ https://beazley.org/2017/01/03/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT "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... https://beazley.org/2016/07/19/ https://beazley.org/2016/07/19/ Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2014/10/22/ https://beazley.org/2014/10/22/ Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2014/02/08/ https://beazley.org/2014/02/08/ Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2013/05/15/ https://beazley.org/2013/05/15/ Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT (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).... https://beazley.org/2013/05/05/ https://beazley.org/2013/05/05/ Sun, 05 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT 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.... https://beazley.org/2012/08/13/ https://beazley.org/2012/08/13/ Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2011/10/16/ https://beazley.org/2011/10/16/ Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2011/08/03/ https://beazley.org/2011/08/03/ Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2010/03/12/ https://beazley.org/2010/03/12/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2010/02/20/ https://beazley.org/2010/02/20/ Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2010/02/03/ https://beazley.org/2010/02/03/ Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2009/11/11/ https://beazley.org/2009/11/11/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2009/10/25/ https://beazley.org/2009/10/25/ Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2009/10/19/ https://beazley.org/2009/10/19/ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2009/09/07/ https://beazley.org/2009/09/07/ Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2009/08/31/ https://beazley.org/2009/08/31/ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2009/08/27/ https://beazley.org/2009/08/27/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2009/08/20/ https://beazley.org/2009/08/20/ Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2009/08/20/17/ https://beazley.org/2009/08/20/17/ Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2007/11/12/ https://beazley.org/2007/11/12/ Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2007/11/12/54/ https://beazley.org/2007/11/12/54/ Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT 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,... https://beazley.org/2007/03/30/ https://beazley.org/2007/03/30/ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT 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... https://beazley.org/2007/03/19/ https://beazley.org/2007/03/19/ Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT 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,... https://beazley.org/2007/03/01/ https://beazley.org/2007/03/01/ Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT 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....