About

The Real Beef

I'm The Real Beef. I build things, break things, document the interesting bits, and put it on the internet.

This site is where project builds, how-to guides, game mods, and whatever else I'm working on end up. Some of it is polished, some of it is post-mortem. If it was interesting enough to take notes, it probably got a write-up.

This site is also a sub-brand of InPoint Automation, a company that builds automation equipment, electronics, and open-source tools. A lot of the engineering work starts here as projects first. If you're looking for the business side - products, consulting, KSeF module for Dolibarr or more - that's over on the InPoint Automation site.

But Who's The "Real" Real Beef?

That would be Angus - Angus Beef - a black lab with white spots that made him look the part. The cow-with-a-gas-mask logo came from the modding and project work on this site, but the "Beef" in the name was always him.

I got Angus in November 2015, not long after coming back from an overseas deployment. Nine months old and already a little different. He didn't learn to walk properly until he was almost two and took longer than most to understand training. When you tossed him cheese, he'd miss, do a full circle to reset himself, and try again ... and again ... and again ... He drank water by shoving his nose to the bottom of the bowl and chomping at it like a shark and once he did figure out walking, he ran in circles basically 24/7. If you were happy, so was Angus. If you were sad, so was Angus.

Over the next decade we went through further deployments, cross-country moves, and eventually picked up and moved continents. At one point he broke his knee and a vet needed to manipulate it. The vet warned us to hold Angus' head tight - it would be extremely painful and he'd try to bite. But Angus just stood there calmly as if to say "well, if you must" - which was pure Angus. The vet had treated thousands of dogs over his career and had never seen anything like it.

Angus passed in April 2025 at ten years old - the most chill, empathetic, and persistent dog I've ever known, and the reason this site has the name it does.