Hamish
Gilbert

I'm based in New Zealand with a background in business and finance. I build things because I want to understand how they actually work—not just use off-the-shelf solutions without learning anything about the underlying technology.

My approach is "why can't I do this myself?" Try to build it from scratch, and sometimes find out exactly why I can't. Either way, I end up understanding what makes a particular problem difficult (or easy!).

I'm interested in understanding how technology works and self-hosted infrastructure because they let me dig into how systems actually work. The projects here are things I wanted to build: some useful, some just to see if I could!