Kyle Phillips

Nosdesk was perfect for about a year, because it only existed in my head.

Every broken system has a person holding it together.

The engineering companion to why I built Nosdesk.

AI should make the helpdesk smarter without making the interface more crowded.

Contract work at Neuroscale AI — AI pipeline development, WebGL hero backgrounds, and interactive feature pages.

I ordered a Minimal Phone in January 2026.

Infrastructure Engineer at an MSP.

The Macintosh Classic II e-ink mod can run a full Sway Wayland compositor session instead of the basic terminal mode.

Paper-TTY is a custom Rust application that drives the Waveshare 9.7" e-ink display inside the Macintosh Classic II mod.

At some point, social media stopped being social.

Build log for Tangara, an open-source portable music player with an iPod-style form factor.

Every helpdesk I used felt like it was designed by someone who'd never had to use one.

After a week using the Mudita Kompakt as my primary phone, here's what worked, what didn't, and what you'll need to make it usable.

Secrets managers are for machines.

Working reference for tmux — the commands I actually use for managing sessions, windows, and panes over SSH.

PowerShell commands I come back to on Windows.

The snippets I'd otherwise have to look up.

Networking commands I keep reaching for: nmap for port scanning, screen/minicom for serial console work, and the usual diagnostics grab-bag.

Rsync transfers only the differences between a source and a destination, which is what makes it good for backups and large transfers over slow or intermittent l

Notes on picking between SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB, and PostgreSQL for self-hosted apps.