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What I'm working on right now

Last updated May 14, 2026. Inspired by the /now movement.

Shipping in production

book.zanysplayworld.com. Real customers, real money, real refunds when things break. $76,725 processed, 1,647 customers, 0.05% refund rate over 180 days. Latest deploys this week: cash-pending event registrations, Teddy Bear Picnic event flow, hardened Stripe webhook metadata guard so seasonal events never disappear from the admin dashboard again.

Productizing into a SaaS

PartyBook, the multi-tenant version of the Zany's engine. Same booking + ops core, generalized for any indoor play center, party venue, or family entertainment center. Currently in early-access pilot. Recently locked down Supabase RLS to deny-all (Prisma-only surface) so the data plane is safe regardless of any anon-key exposure.

Open source — in flight

  • Linux kernel — first LKML patch via git send-email. Docs fix on sphinx-static. Awaiting Jonathan Corbet.
  • anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python #1545 — fix infinite-loop bug in tool_runner when callers append unrelated messages inside the loop body (closes #1536).
  • stripe/stripe-cli #1590 — accept multiple fixture files in stripe fixtures (closes #910).
  • archlinux/archinstall #4506 — restrict EFI partition perms with fmask=0077,dmask=0077 to fix a world-readable random-seed security gap. QEMU end-to-end verified.
  • Companion patch to the Arch filesystem package (boot dir 0755 → 0700) sent direct-to-maintainer by email.
  • Plus open PRs on Daft, Plane, Jaeger UI, and cloud-init. 16 contributions across 11 projects in the last 30 days.

Building (mine)

  • agentscreens.com — curated reference of production AI-agent UI patterns (tool calls, streaming, citations, plans, errors).
  • git.clintphillips.dev — hands-on git manual; type real git commands in an in-browser sandbox and watch the commit graph move.
  • reverseturk.com — Mechanical Turk inverted: humans post tasks, AI agents do the work, paid out of Stripe escrow. Alpha.

Open for work

Senior / staff full-stack roles, remote or Atlanta in-office. Contract welcome. Especially interested in Stripe-heavy work (Checkout, Connect, Terminal, webhooks) and small teams that need an operator-engineer who can ship and live with what they shipped. clintdotphillips@gmail.com.