Kyle Phillips
I build backend systems in Rust, self-host most of my stack, and write up what I learn along the way.
Featured
A 36-key wireless split keyboard, and a holster I designed for wearing it on my legs.
Writing
Pygmalion as a Software Developer
Nosdesk was perfect for about a year, because it only existed in my head. What happened when real people got hold of it, and an old Greek story about the same mistake.
The Human Patch
Every broken system has a person holding it together. Replacing them with AI doesn't fix the system. It removes the only part that was adapting.
120,000 Lines of Rust: Inside the Nosdesk Backend
The engineering companion to why I built Nosdesk. How I built a real-time, offline-first backend in Rust: streaming pipelines, crash-safe queues, and pushing correctness into the type system.
Featured Notes
Grafana Stack Setup
Notes on standing up a Grafana-based monitoring stack for infrastructure. The core components are Grafana for dashboards, Prometheus for metrics, Loki for logs,
Reverse Proxy Configuration for Web Services
Configuration guides for popular reverse proxy solutions (NGINX, Caddy, Traefik) used with self-hosted web applications.
Linux Command Reference
The snippets I'd otherwise have to look up. The basics I remember; these are the ones I don't want to.
Guides
Self-Hosted Outline Knowledge Base Setup Guide
A comprehensive guide to setting up and configuring an Outline open-source knowledge base and documentation server for your team.
Maintaining AppImage AUR Packages
A guide on how to create, update, and maintain an AppImage AUR package on Arch Linux, complete with examples and best practices.
How to Set Up a Minecraft Server
A detailed step-by-step guide to setting up your own Minecraft server, from installation to configuration and troubleshooting.
Projects
Kyles Sofle
My wireless split keyboard. Its left screen shows my Claude Code usage, CI results and next meeting, sent from the Mac through the keyboard's indicator lights.
Nylonite
An open base for warehouse management systems, written in Rust. Every scan is an event, and the events are the stock record.